Carbohydrate Loading
Many athletes know that they should carbohydrate load prior to endurance events. Very few athletes know how to properly do this. In sport medicine terms, carbohyrate loading is a “practice that aims to maximize muscle glycogen stores prior to competition”. Muscle glycogen is the storage form of carbohydrates found in the muscle.

Carbohydrate loading is beneficial for events that last longer than 90 minutes. Itʼs said that it can improve an athletes performance by “2-3%” through prolonging the time to exhaustion. Carbohydrate loading includes 3 days of a high carbohydrate diet, in addition to very light or no training or exercise.

Read the full post on Nutrition Preparation for Your Big Race Day.

Are you bored with your regular cardio routine, are you confused what workout you should be doing first whether it should be cardio or strength training, well you donʼt necessarily have to separate cardio and strength training, they can be incorporated into one workout. Cardio generally works the heart and lungs, and develops their endurance. Strength training develops the muscles.

Most of the general population think that cardio workouts have to be either done on a treadmill, running outside, use of a stationary bike, cycling, spinning or swimming just to name a few. What the general population fail to realize is that you can also get your heart rate up by doing strength training. Cardio with weights can actually get the heart rate up as well and it also saves time if youʼre running short on time.

Read the full post on Combining Strength Training with Cardio.

You’ve heard it a thousand times, Cross-training does your body good. It builds strength and flexibility in muscles that running doesn’t utilize. It prevents injury by correcting muscular imbalances. And the variety prevents boredom and burnout. Still, according to a recent Runners World. com poll, 35 percent of runners never ride a bike, swim laps, or lift weights. Running is arguably the quickest way to get lean, blow off steam, and build your legs, heart, and lungs. Isn’t that enough?

Read the full post on It’s Not Enough to Just Run.

“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air…”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Week three of your training! The routine is getting easier, and the longer days are upon us. However, with summer comes unpredictable weather, vacation plans, and kids out of school. Suddenly your nice and solid routine went out the window! What to do now? This installment of our blog is dedicated to those moments when life throws you a curve ball- the kids get sick, your boss drops a stack of new work on your desk…the RAIN begins. This is the time when you remember your goal: to finish a triathlon and to feel good about your accomplishment. Your objective, remember, is to maintain and/or increase your level of aerobic fitness.

Read the full post on Entering the World of Multi-Sport Racing, Part 4.

If you have been following our blog for the past few weeks, you are ready to begin week 2 of 8 for your sprint triathlon training program. If you are reading our blog for the first time, we suggest reading from the start to get to this point.

Read the full post on Entering the World of Multi-Sport Racing, Part 3.

Time, Time, Time. You have accepted the multi-sport challenge and now it is TIME to get started. What better way to start than with the concept of TIME, by far the biggest fear factor most people attribute to why they think they can’t do a triathlon. You are a busy person with an active personal and work life and every minute counts, right? We get that. However, you may be surprised to learn that Tri training doesn’t have to take as much time as you think. The key is to adapt the training plan to fit into your lifestyle.

Read the full post on Entering the World of Multi-Sport Racing, Part 2.