Triathlon Training, Tips & Motivation

We love the sport of triathlon! It is one of the fastest growing sports in the world and we encourage everyone to learn more about it. Find article below on different triathlon distances, training tips & insights from some of the sport’s best athletes.

Triathlon Training, Tips & Motivation

Making The Connection Between Exercise And Mental Health

February 27, 2020

How An Active Lifestyle Can Improve Mood It’s safe to say everyone struggles with mental health from time to time, whether it’s general depression and anxiety, stress-related issues from the everyday, or trauma of some degree—we’ve all been there. However, there is strong evidence that a healthy, active lifestyle can have positive effects on mental…

Metabolic Fitness & Eating for It

February 11, 2018

METABOLIC FITNESS Avoid the numbers on your bathroom scale and pay attention, instead, to the numbers that mean the most: your cholesterol, your blood pressure and your insulin sensitivity. Those numbers reflect metabolic fitness. Metabolism includes all of your body’s energy activities, the chemical reactions and processes that occur every second of your life to…

You Can Be Fat AND Fit

February 4, 2018

You Can Be Fat AND Fit ARE YOU A GREYHOUND OR A ST. BERNARD? If you have always been a little fat, yet you’ve cared for the three basic aspects of your health – physical, emotional/mental, and metabolic – then consider your specific biological makeup, your inherited genetics, and your individual physiology. Our genetic…

Heart Zones Weight Loss Program

January 28, 2018

You don’t have to be thin to be healthy. You don’t have to be thin to be fit. You don’t have to be thin. If your genetic heritage, body type, and metabolism make you susceptible to gaining weight very easily, don’t feel bad. You could be one of evolution’s triumphs, successes. In prehistoric times, the…

Recovery: The Trunk, Not a Branch

January 18, 2018

Recovery period is one of the least understood and appreciated parts of the training tree, yet it is a critical part of your training phases or periods. (This recovery period is not to be confused with weekly recovery days where you may workout 5 days a week and recover for 2 days. It is also not…

Branch 5: Racing

January 11, 2018

Racing is a very tenacious branch. It’s as much psychological as it is physical. The demands are arduous because it requires constant testing, usually against other athletes as well as against your own goals and that great truth-teller – the clock. It requires constant recuperation and resting, too. I’ve been asked more times than I can…

Branch 4: Speed Branch

January 4, 2018

This period of training is a favorite for many athletes. The peaking phase is the time when you put all of the other branches together into one: endurance, strength, and intervals. It is the variety branch. It is the time when you are incredibly fit and loving it. It’s the time when you get to…