Recover Better: What NOT To Do After Hard Training Sessions

Recover Better: What NOT To Do After Hard Training Sessions

In a previous blog post, we discussed recovery tools and techniques to help enhance recovery and your body’s adaptation to challenging workouts (i.e. training stimuli). However, there are also practices and techniques that hinder recovery. We suggest that you avoid...
Recover Better: Tips for Recovery After Hard Training Sessions

Recover Better: Tips for Recovery After Hard Training Sessions

During a hard training block or training session, your body experiences physiological stress, which stimulates adaptation  (increased strength and endurance) by the body to the stress assuming adequate rest and recovery are taken. Both sides of the fitness equation –...
Travel Tips For Racing a Triathlon in a Foreign Country: Part Two

Travel Tips For Racing a Triathlon in a Foreign Country: Part Two

In our previous blog post (Part 1 of “Travel Tips For Racing a Triathlon in a Foreign Country”), we discussed the importance of arriving to your race destination at least a few days in advance, traveling with plenty of local currency, and preparing yourself for a...
Travel Tips For Racing a Triathlon in a Foreign Country: Part One

Travel Tips For Racing a Triathlon in a Foreign Country: Part One

Whether you have raced overseas before or you have just signed up for your first international triathlon, we have some vital tips for you to make your trip go smoothly so that you can have your best performance on race day. Even experienced triathletes and travelers...
How to Become a Faster Triathlete…by Doing Less “Training”

How to Become a Faster Triathlete…by Doing Less “Training”

I love athlete questions, especially questions with answers that challenge the triathlon – and especially IRONMAN Triathlon® – culture of “more training is better.” A client of mine completed her first IRONMAN in Cozumel in November where she finished 2nd in her age...
How to Write a Useful Triathlon Race Report

How to Write a Useful Triathlon Race Report

When I finished an event in the past like a triathlon or a Spartan Race, I would type up a race report and publish in my blog. The write up talk about things like: my pre-race routine, the chaos of a mass swim start, my nutrition mistakes on the run and trading off...
What Diet is the Best Diet for Triathletes?

What Diet is the Best Diet for Triathletes?

As long as you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the following popular diets that we’re going to discuss. Diet books (of which there are tens of thousands), diet websites, nutritionists, and even triathlon websites like triathlete.com...