Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

Traveling to a race is almost a necessity for athletes these days. With so many race options and so many beautiful and bucket-list venues, it's likely that you will travel more than 2 hours to a race course at least once in your racing season. For some athletes, all you know is traveling to races as you have limited options for racing in your city/town.  Race-cations (as we call them) provide a special opportunity to travel to a destination, race somewhere new and (hopefully) enjoy a little sight-seeing and R&R after the race. Although traveling to a race can be exciting, racing is stressful and combining that fact with the many unknowns and potential logistical nightmares of racing in an unfamiliar venue, outside of your home environment, this can bring anxiety, worries and fears - especially if you are racing a new distance for the first time or you have specific goals and expectations for your race.  I encourage you to not push away the thought of tr...

February 3rd, 2007.  My very first blog post.  Y ou think my first blog post would be a post about me, introducing myself to the world or talking about something positive or happy in life. But sadly no.  Instead, I wrote about my very first DNF (Did Not Finish) race.  Since then, I have written 2212 blog posts.  That comes to around 245 blog posts per year for the past 9 years.  I've written about our triathlon races, Karel's bike races, my dietetic internship, my travels and events, recipes, nutrition tips, fueling tips, motivation tips and pretty much anything and everything about my life.  And there clearly are not enough posts about our cats as Campy often gets the spotlight.  I'm not planning to stop blogging anytime soon as it is the best outlet for the many thoughts in my head and I love being able to refer back to special times in my life that I have documented through my blog.  I've written happy posts and posts when time...

Source Through this approach, your body composition will change because you are able to perform well and maintain a realistic and sustainable style of eating.  Are you an athlete looking to change body composition and improve your performance as you train for an upcoming event? Consider this:  Manipulating your eating before, during and after workouts in an effort to enhance the adaptive response to training will only provide a marginal performance and body composition improvement if your daily diet is not well-balanced, well-timed and consistent. It's remarkable how the body performs and changes when emphasis is placed on the daily diet as a vehicle of nourishment and when workouts are supported with food as a vehicle of energy. Far too many athletes choose sport nutrition restriction over daily diet manipulation whereas the later can significantly help to change your body composition without comprom...

If you are an athlete and you love nature, mountains and challenging terrain, you will love our training playground....otherwise known as Greenville, SC.  If I had to choose three words to describe what we heavily focus on during our training camps I would choose the words; FIT, FUEL, TRAIN. Of course, FUN is included in there too.  A private training camp is the perfect option for the athlete who needs specific individual attention in specific areas. In the case of our last private training camp this past Thurs - Sat, triathlete Gin (who is coached by Professional triathlete Haley Chura ) from Athens, GA reached out to us regarding setting up a private training camp to help her with her cycling skills (specifically with climbing more efficiently and using her gears more effectively), to assess her bike fit, to discuss fueling and daily nutrition to ensure she stays healthy with her training and reaches her performance expectations in training and on race da...

It's hard to believe that 10 years ago I was waking up in a Boston hotel room, getting ready to run my 2nd marathon.  And not just any marathon, THE Boston Marathon.  As a swimmer, turned runner and then turned triathlete, I didn't fully appreciate the magnitude of being an athlete who had qualified to run in the Boston Marathon. After I ran the Miami Marathon in 2005 (my first marathon) in a time of 3:38, a friend told me "You Boston qualified!" No joke, I said "What's Boston?" It took me a few minutes for it to come to me that I had qualified for the Boston Marathon. It was not a goal of mine as my #1 goal was just to finish my first marathon. The thought of running 26.2 miles was so daunting for my swimmer turned runner body who had never ran more than 6 miles before training for 6 months for my first marathon. Fast forward to April 2006...... I remember giving my parents a hug and getting on a school bus to be dropped off in Hopkinton with...

We could not be more excited to welcome another cycling event to Greenville, SC this weekend! This weekend at the  Bikeville Classic ,  Professional men and women will be competing for the Stars and Stripes National Championship Jersey in the team time trial and criterium.  Elite amateur racers are also competing both days, as well as a fun ride on Saturday on the Southern Connector. If you are in or around the area, we highly recommend that you attend this event! We hope to see you at the Crit on Sunday as we will be cheering on the pro cyclists in downtown Greenville. (after the event, enjoy a walk in Falls Park or enjoy our awesome downtown and shop and dine at one of our many awesome restaurants). Professional Team Time Trial National Championship The Bikeville Classic Weekend kicks off Saturday, April 16 with the Team Time Trial National Championships on the Southern Connector (I-185). The winning team will be the one who records fastest time ov...

As an athlete, you have special nutritional requirements compared to your fellow exercise enthusiasts. You do incredible things with your body on a daily basis and you have high expectations for what your body will do on race day. And unlike research laboratory studies, you are not exercising to see how long you can go but instead, you train to see how fast you can cover a specific distance on a specific date.   As an athlete, you probably experience many challenges when it comes meeting your extreme training needs through the daily diet because you are not like other people who must only meet basic nutritional needs - you must have great nutritional habits on a day-to-day basis but you also have an extra responsibility to your body to ensure it has the right foods, at the right times to give you extra energy, to delay fatigue, to promote recovery and to keep your body in good hormonal and metabolic health. First off, if you are reading this right now, I want you to ...