The dreaded Treadmill workouts, how I despise you. Before, during and after, not one aspect of these treadmill workouts has me eager to make the trek to the gym at 6:15am. Tuesday mornings provide the time for these treadmill workouts, the Rec Center in Long Beach is the place and the why and the how may remain forever unanswered. With all my negative feelings towards this mouse wheel for humans, there are definitely benefits for utilizing the treadmill workouts in preseason, especially those of you in the northeast.
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Yes, it is true, Ironmen do get sick, well Ironmen hopeful. I am a living testament to the fact because this past week I was sick. It really pissed me off too! Wednesday morning around 3am, I woke up feeling miserable. I was wide awake but still dreaming and of the weirdest things too. Either way, I knew something was wrong but I thought it would pass as soon as I awoke in the morning… continue reading…
As a follow up to my initial posts about diet and nutrition, I have decided to dedicate the remainder of January to fine tuning my diet. Being in the base period of training, I feel nutrition will be instrumental in order to stay on track and injury free for IM Louisville.
My knowledge is fairly limited and I am not all that interested in researching much further on this topic, I have my general guidelines which I will follow: continue reading…
In thinking about daily food intake I remember reading back to Joe Friel’s, “The Triathletes Training Bible” and reading a lot about the timing of our diets. How the nutrients in some foods have greater effects when consumed at different times of the day. From what I have read it seems that this is mainly based around workouts and timing consumption of starchy rich carbs within the first 30 minutes following a session.
Some examples include; pasta, bread and rice, which provide nutrients to replace energy stores and promote recovery in the body continue reading…
Nutrition, what gives us the energy to sustain high efforts during training. The X factor that will provide athletes that extra burst during the final interval set. Proper nutrition can prevent injury, avoid sickness and increase the probability of a strong performance race day.
Without getting into too much detail, mainly due to the fact I am mid research and do not have much to convey. My goals with nutrition are to provide my body enough fuel to sustain efforts during training, while creating enough of a deficit to decrease body weight. Obviously the importance is to fuel appropriately and ensure health, too few calories per day and I could be in trouble real quick. continue reading…
