Triathlon training and endurance sport training can be exhausting without the proper diet tips and nutrition. Hitting a wall of exhaustion is never fun and can be avoided.
Here are 5 foods that will help increase your endurance level no matter the sport.
Lifelong goal of triathlon completed: check.
Knowing the next thing to do: not checked.
Completing a triathlon, finishing a marathon, climbing mountaintops - leads many of us to dissapoint afterwards.
Music has long been a workout partner to many of us. A running partner, cycling partner, basketball partner - music is always there to push you further.
This week I participated in a duathlon race just outside Philadelphia in south Jersey. I was prepared physically, but my insides shouted at me, leading to stomach distress. Sounds familiar right? After the race I reviewed my food choices for this fast-paced race with my trusted nutritionist, Dr. Simon Aslanian. Soon he determined my sugar intake was too high [...]
All kinds of rumors exist about weight training for triathletes. Some triathletes feel weight training makes their muscles tighten up and makes them slower due to the extra “bulky” weight. Others feel it is unecessary due to the high amount of cardio experienced during lengthy workouts. While there is no scientific research proving reductions in the risk [...]
Shoulders (Anterior Deltoids) are a key muscle group for triathletes. Each time you sit on the saddle for a two hour bike ride or slice your arms into a pool, your shoulders are utilized and highly stressed. Here are some tips to develop strong elastic muscle tissue. Go through the exercises as a cycle of two sets with 10-12 [...]
New athletes to the sport of triathlon often make the same mistakes other triathletes prior to them have made. Since this sport combines three disciplines and slams them together into one, there are millions of mistakes to be made no matter how many triathlons you complete. Hopefully by reading the following information you won’t make a fool [...]
Although it doesn’t seem so on the surface, triathletes are similar to other athletes. Triathletes have trouble areas and plenty of complaints as do other athletes. One dramatic difference between triathletes and other athletes is the common complaint (from both beginner and experienced triathletes) regarding soreness and tightness throughout the body. In order to treat the near-constant soreness, triathletes [...]
Like many people and even more professional athletes, you probably suffer from some sort of back pain. The number one reason for this is a weak core. Do you sleep on too many pillows? How is your posture at your work desk? Could you sit more upright when you drive? Are you slumping over when you walk? Your [...]
Ankle pain? Here is an easy to follow video on stretching your ankles. You beat them up, now loosen them up. Ankles are your anchors. How To Stretch The Muscles Of The Ankle
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