Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

For any endurance athlete, there is great risk for injury and fatigue while training for an event lasting 90+ minutes. Certainly, every athlete training for an endurance event hopes to get to the starting line feeling fit, strong and healthy but not always does this happen. Sadly, far too many endurance fail to get to the starting line of their upcoming event due to injury or a health issue and if they do arrive, the body is weak, fragile and broken down. Because endurance sports are addicting, it's common for athletes to continue this cycle of never fully rebuilding or strengthening the body and to constantly arrive to races poorly prepared (physically and mentally). Do you consider yourself a durable athlete? Here are some red flags that should be addressed before signing up for races or progressing with your training volume/intensity..... You are constantly rehabing and racing, rehabing and racing. You struggle with consistent training due to life, low motivation, restless sleep...

Before I talk about our last workout of the day, let's start with the first workout of the day..... Day two of our mini train-cation started with an outdoor swim....... My happy place. My comfort zone. My favorite sport! After my mental struggles on the bike yesterday, I was so excited to start Tuesday with a 75-minute, 4350 yard swim workout (prescribed by Tower 26 ). I had never done this workout before and really enjoyed it. WU: 500 Pre set: 5 x 200's with snorkel and fins with 20 sec rest as 200 swim 150 swim, 50 kick with board (head down in water stretching arms out while holding the edge of the board) 100 swim, 100  kick 50 swim, 150 kick 200 kick MS: 500 at 70% w/ 1 min rest 2 x 250's at 75% w/ 40 sec rest 4 x 125's at 80% w/ 30 sec rest 7 x 75's at 85% w/ 20 sec rest 25 EZ Post set: 500 smooth with snorkel, buoy, ankle strap 12 x 25's at 95% on 40 sec interval 50 EZ After the swim, we changed and headed to the gym for ...

When Karel and I were dating in 2006-2007, I remember the first time when I invited Karel to the gym with me to do my plyometric workout. As a cyclist, Karel didn't do much (if any) strength training as he didn't belong to a gym and didn't own any weights at home. All of Karel's training to get faster, stronger and more powerful was on the bike. Although I met Karel with a fresh "Master of Science in Exercise Physiology" degree, my love for strength training (and knowledge) started when I was around 12 years old, when I started competitive swimming. Our coach wasted no time, even at a young age, for us all to belong to Gold's Gym where we would all do our 30 minute strength workout before heading back to the pool for our two-hour swim  workout. In High School, I continued to strength train and perform various plyometric and band work before workouts and then through college, the plyometric and strength routines became more complex as I found mysel...