Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

If you are currently changing (or trying to maintain) your eating/exercise habits in a quest to change your body image in order to be a faster, stronger, healthier or more powerful athlete, are you changing habits that will concurrently make a positive impact on your performance as well? Are you driven by performance gains or by a body image? What if you reach your ideal body image but performance doesn't improve? Is it assumed that if you lose weight you will automatically become faster, improve strength and endurance? What if your new body image (which was once desired) becomes more of a highlight to you than the initial gains in fitness that you were once seeking in your quest to achieve the "perfect" body image to become a better athlete?  As an athlete/fitness enthusiast who is hungry for a change in body composition (in a body-image obsessed society), how will you be able to keep yourself from crossing the line from being a dedicated, passionate, ...

CREATING THE PERFECT SMOOTHIE TV SEGMENT (click above to watch my live TV segment from this morning) This morning I had a great time talking with Melanie about how to create the perfect meal smoothie on  News4Jax  during the 8 o'clock hour of the Morning Show.  Meal replacement shakes and workout recovery drinks have been around for some time and if you are on social media, it's likely that you have come across one or two smoothie pictures....in the last hour. But over the past few years, smoothies have been given a lot of attention from medical professionals, the health conscious, celebrities, dietitians and trainers for a lot of great reasons.                               When you are in control of the ingredients in your top of the line, heavy duty blender, smoothies are a delicious and easy way to hydrate and fill your body with powerful vitamins and minerals, antioxi...

When I started graduate school in the fall of 2004, I saw myself as a former college swimmer. I was exercising to stay in shape but I really missed competition.  As a long-time athlete, my mind functions best with structure. When it comes to exercising, I enjoy it but I like to have a plan. I like to work hard within my plan, knowing that I am moving closer to my goals.  Exercising is fun and it makes me feel healthy but a structured plan helps my body get faster, stronger and more powerful for a bigger goal than just to "be healthy." During my studies to earn a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology, I started to inch my way into endurance sports. Well, more like jump in with a smile on my face as I starting training for my first marathon without ever completing more than a 10K road race.  Throughout my educational career, I found myself overwhelmed with the information that pertained to the human body in motion. Although I was forced to learn it in or...

Welcome to our life….. we are on the road again!  But this time it’s triple the fun because I get to train on the hills, I get to watch Karel and 6 of our Trimarni athletes race in the Clermont Olympic Distance Triathlon AND Campy gets to make memories with us! After a quick stop at the Jacksonville Running Company on Friday late afternoon (when Karel got finished with a RETUL fit and I got finished with my Oakley Women Facebook chat), we hit the road around 5pm, hoping to miss some Friday traffic in route to Clermont, Florida (just outside of Orlando). We arrived around 7:30pm and missed the traffic. YAY! I packed a cooler and bag full of yummy goodies for us to enjoy so once we arrived to our hotel (Clermont Days Inn and Suites – pet friendly) all we had to do was prep, eat and relax. When it comes to traveling for races, I prefer to bring as much Trimarni-friendly options as possible for it makes our trip a lot easier to have our food options within our ...

Last Friday I held another all-day chat with Oakley Women on Facebook.  in honor of National Nutrition Month. The topic was " Myths and Truths about diet, exercise and health" Thank you for everyone for your great questions! Here are my responses below. Q.   What is your take on not eating carbohydrates for dinner and sticking to lean protein and veggies. In order to minimize calories before bedtime/less energy expenditure at night.   Breakfast being biggest meal and decreasing throughout the day based on training session timing. A.   great question. There's two ways that I like to see food - for fuel and for health. There many great nutrients found in food that we never want to restrict a healthy food for fear of calories. It is important to think about the nutrient s in food, throughout the entire day. Food for fuel means using the food that we eat to give us energy when we need it (or need to recover). If there is minimal working out in the ...