Fueling An Endurance Athlete Lifestyle With Whole Foods
Taper seems to get a bad rap from our endurance sports community. When a race is coming up I see tweets and Facebook posts about how heading into taper is the worst thing to happen and how will they every survive. I will admit when I first got serious about this endurance lifestyle journey that tapering [...]
Race day anxiety is something we all suffer from in one form or another. Your race day anxiety can range from: Can I finish this race? How will I react to getting hit at the swim start? How hard is this going to be? How fast can I go? The questions can go on and [...]
Overload weeks are the time in training where a lot of athletes are broken. They fear the weeks before they even start and then it quickly goes downhill from there. The workouts get harder than they should be, the mind breaks, the calories consumption goes from healthy to eat anything and all the base building [...]
Ironman Texas training is going full tilt and that is because the event is now officially less than 5 weeks away and that means that the overload weeks are here. That means that my ramblings on this blog may get more and more random as I try to draw oxygen to my brain and food [...]
Yoga has become a regular practice for me as you may have noticed from the blog posts I wrote here and here. What I have noticed as I enter the build phase of my training for Ironman Texas is that I want to do more yoga and not less. I have found that yoga has [...]
Speed is a relative term because my speed may be faster or slower than your speed but what is common amongst all athletes is the trust in their speed. When I first started in endurance sports my first race was a half-marathon that I ran in 2 hours 18 minutes or 10:34/mi. My speed that [...]
Swimming was the bane of my existence when I entered the world of triathlon. I can recall my first ‘training’ days where I would go to the gym, jump in the pool and swim a few laps with lots of water swallowed and exhaustion setting in after 25 yards. Swimming was what I had to [...]
Fueling an endurance athletes lifestyle is paramount to recovery and being able to get out the door to do the next day’s or even the same day’s workout. I am a big proponent of food for fuel and that recovering properly is beyond important. Fueling or also re-fueling gives your body the nutrients it needs [...]
Ironman Texas is coming up Fast And Furious (Karen loves these movies and I think we are slated to see #6 soon) and I am behind on my monthly progress report. Let’s also toss in the fact that the email I got from Maria this week with the subject: Welcome To Build Phase leads me [...]
Protein is on the lips and in the fingertips of everybody, regardless if they are an endurance athlete or not. If I tell somebody I am a vegetarian, and now a days I tell them I am plant-based, they ask me where I get my protein. When I respond that I pick it up when [...]
Three Tips To A Healthy Lifestyle? That’s right I have boiled down my healthy lifestyle down to three tips, in form of the letter C, and I want to share them with you but first a little background on me (in case you are new here) and how I got into this lifestyle in the [...]
Full Disclosure: This is a review for the Black And Decker Waffle Maker product that was sent to me for free. Staples provided me with this items for review. The thoughts and opinions expressed are strictly my own. Feel free to shop their entire line of Kitchen Appliances. I did not pay for this product and was not [...]
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