Our bodies’ cooling system works great when the air is dry and sweat and evaporate, cooling us down. But what happens when the humidity is high, and sweat can’t evaporate? Here are some stategies for styaing cool when training or competing in hot, humid weather. Continue reading
Athletes run the gamut from those just beginning a program of regular exercise to elite endurance athletes. Have you ever wondered how their sports nutrition needs differ? In fact, one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to sports nutrition. While the fundamentals remain the same—fueling and hydrating before and during exercise, and promoting recovery afterwards—what does change is how those basic concepts are applied.
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Starvation workouts create the prime atmosphere for bonking; your workout is limited by a lack of fuel before the body can be appropriately taxed and trained. This conflicts with the reason why we do all this training in the first place: to promote an environment where the athlete can complete better and better workouts, pushing previous limiters, and increasing fitness. We make too many sacrifices aimed at improving our fitness already to allow something we have 100% control over to further limit us. Continue reading
You’ve been racing for months now, but it’s likely that your big race is fast approaching. Whether that race is a local sprint-distance race or an Ironman event, you should be looking for one last jump in fitness to get you peaked for your best race of the season. Lance Armstrong’s personal coach Christ Carmichael on how you can bike faster. Continue reading
Looking for a rock-hard six pack? That’s not a very good (or sustainable) reason to be a triathlete and incorporate core work into your training routine, but it is a very possible by-product of appropriate training. Keep reading to learn more about how you can improve your core strength.
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