9 Tips for a Faster Bike Ride
1. Spend time in the saddle. This means ride often. Like any other endurance sport, you need to put in the time to build your base, build strength, and get FASTER. I recommend 3-4 times a week with a key high intensity ride with intervals, a strength ride with hills or tempo efforts, and one long ride for endurance. 2. Ride with a group and preferably with cyclists that are slightly faster than you. Riding with a group teaches you crucial bike handling skills such as corneri
Why I LOVE the TRX Suspension Trainer
I have been doing TRX since 2009 when I got certified to teach it. I started teaching it on the Marine Corps base to a room full of active duty Marines and Sailors aboard Parris Island. If you want to work your CORE like no other workout you've ever done, then you need to start doing TRX! The TRX can be used with other equipment as well- sometimes I add in the Bosu Ball, Kettle Bells, or dumb bells. You can make it into a HIIT workout and add cardio such as running or burpees
How to Make the Scariest Swim Not So Scary
The swim is the probably the greatest deterrent to triathlon. Most people are familiar with riding a bicycle and running, but when it comes to the swim they are in unfamiliar territory. When I started training for my very first triathlon, I almost called it quits before I even began. The thought of getting in the water was intimidating and honestly I didn't know where to begin. I had not swam competitively since Middle School. Monday morning and I'm in the pool. Just start. A
What Injury Has Taught Me
Ok I speak HONESTLY and from the heart. Many of you who follow my personal page or my business page know that I have been struggling with injury the past year or so. I could write an entire book about this honestly, but I will try to keep this as brief as I can. A few years ago I thought about completely giving up the sport of Triathlon. That's right. All of it. I was teaching a ton of group exercise classes at the time and adding triathlon training to the mix was just too mu
Best Running Form Drills
For almost every run workout for my athletes I incorporate running form drills to improve speed, agility, technique, and run form. Running drills not only improve coordination and form, but they can strengthen functionally weak area's of an athlete's run. I like to warm up my athletes with a half mile or one mile easy around the track then do form drills after that. This gets their heart rate elevated and blood flowing to the extremities before the main set of the workout. Th
