Fitness
Transform Your Endurance Training with Yoga: A Course for Everyday Athletes
Transform Your Endurance Training with Yoga: A Course for Everyday Athletes Are you tired of feeling stiff, sore, and prone to injury? Do you want to enhance your performance as an everyday endurance athlete while prioritizing your body’s well-being?  Yoga Strength for Endurance Athletes is a unique six-class yoga course designed specifically for everyday endurance…
Read MoreBoost Your Aerobic Power: Mastering VO2max with HIIT and Long, Slow Distance Training
Boost Your Aerobic Power: Mastering VO2max with HIIT and Long, Slow Distance Training Your VO2max – or the maximum amount of oxygen your body can use during intense exercise – is a measure of your aerobic fitness and endurance. The higher your VO2max, the more oxygen your body can take in and use, which means…
Read MoreWhat’s On Your Plate: A Balanced Approach to Weight Loss for Everyday Endurance Athletes
What’s On Your Plate: A Balanced Approach to Weight Loss for Everyday Endurance Athletes I’ve been writing a lot lately about nutrition mostly because my athletes and others have been asking me about it. And good nutrition has come up in discussions about race performance and being under-fueled. Essentially our discussions come down to three…
Read MoreFive Strategies to Prevent Injury and Improve Performance For Aging Endurance Athletes
Five Strategies to Prevent Injury and Improve Performance For Aging Endurance Athletes One of the most significant challenges faced by aging endurance athletes, including runners, cyclists, and triathletes who are over 40, is the increased risk of injury. For example, a lower back/hip problem has been keeping me from fully training on the bike for…
Read MoreCycling Adventures: Navigating the Path to Elite Racing with Fun and Connections
Cycling Adventures: Navigating the Path to Elite Racing While Maintaining Fun and Social Connections My new coaching client, Jamie Zarda, like many older female cyclists, is stuck in the middle. Jamie, 44, started racing just a few years ago and has made a lot of progress in both mountain biking and cyclocross since then, upgrading…
Read MoreHIIT for Cyclists Over 50: Boosting Aerobic & Anaerobic Capacity
HIIT for Cyclists Over 50: Boosting Aerobic & Anaerobic Capacity High-intensity interval training is an effective way for cyclists and runners over 50 to improve their physical performance. By pushing the body to greater levels of exertion, HIIT workouts can boost endurance, strength and speed in even the oldest athletes. With its many health benefits,…
Read MoreYoga for Athletes: Unlocking Effective and Complete Recovery
Yoga for Athletes: Unlocking Effective and Complete Recovery Yoga for recovery might be the secret to faster recovery and improved performance. Yoga, once thought of as a practice reserved for 20-something former gymnasts and really flexible people, is now being recognized by cyclists and runners as a powerful tool for boosting athletic recovery. From relieving…
Read MoreYoga for Endurance Athletes: Enhancing Durability and Strength
Yoga for Endurance Athletes: Enhancing Durability and Strength Yoga is one of the best things cyclists and runners can do to get stronger and more durable. Maybe yoga has a bad reputation among older cyclists and runners. Maybe people perceive it as too new-agey, or they feel like they aren’t flexible enough to even try…
Read MoreMonitor Training Progress: Practical Tools and Technology
Monitor Training Progress: Practical Tools and Technology What is the best way to track training progress to know if your training is actually working? When I was a middle school teacher, it was always critical for me to keep track of data, measure my students’ progress. How else would I know if they were actually…
Read MoreThe Best Strength Training Routines for Runners Over 50 Need More Weight, Fewer Reps
The Best Routines Of Strength Training For Runners Over 50 Need More Weight, Fewer Reps First, I hope we can establish that strength training for cyclists over 50 is scientifically proven as much as anything can be. If you aren’t strength training, you’re leaving performance on the gym floor. Second, we’re going to discuss HOW…
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