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By Coach Maria Simone ‘Tis the season when flu, virus, colds, and more circulate in our closed spaces. Despite our best efforts to remain healthy, getting sick is usually not an if, it’s a when. So, when it happens you may find yourself wondering if it is safe or smart to train. Sometimes training while[…]
Coaches recommendations for what you can do now to be set up to ROCK this year! By The No Limits Coaches This to-do list will prepare you to crush the coming season – and that’s what we are all here for, right? As the saying goes – failing to prepare is preparing to fail![…]
By Coach Maria Simone Athletes set goals. Then, we train to achieve those goals. But, can the nature of the goals we set impact our race day performance? A 2022 meta-review in the International Review of Sport and Psychology says yes. Since we are at the very start of the dreaming season, the time[…]
By Coach Sophie Evans The Leadville 100, aka “The Race Across the Sky”, is a grueling mountain bike race that covers 104 miles of rugged terrain, with a peak altitude of 12,600 feet, and around 12,000 feet of elevation gain. Despite picking up mountain biking later in life, in the non-mountainous regions of[…]
By Coach Maria Simone Jane is an endurance athlete who has been experiencing a training “funk” in the past two weeks. She is reporting fatigue during her training, with heavy or “dead” muscles, along with an inability to hit her training targets. As her coach, I begin to ask a series of questions to[…]
By Coach Lindsay Leigh Adding yoga to our routine allows us to reap many benefits, such as greater mobility, flexibility, mobility, concentration, body awareness, mindfulness, and stress relief. There are different types of yoga classes, from Yin-based yoga, which features long holds and is recovery-focused, to flow-based classes, which take you through proper warm-ups (usually[…]
By Coach Lindsay Zemba Leigh It’s no secret that swim speed is highly dependent on technique and form; some coaches estimate as much as 80% of speed is dependent on technique with only 20% dependent on fitness. And this seems right. We know that swimming harder (with effort) often will not translate into swimming faster[…]
By Coach Maria Simone You may have heard me say before that wrist-based HR monitors, also known as optical sensors, don’t work. A look at any file from a wrist-based strap will show you pretty quickly their general lack of reliability, and tendency to provide erratic readings. Below is a graph of a run that[…]
By Coach John DiPalo In addition to all of the swim, bike, and run work that we do, it is important to have the tools and the knowledge to perform basic mechanical tasks on your bike. Not only will it save you money and time (no more bike shop visits for basic repairs and maintenance),[…]
By Athlete Ray Moran Going into the race, I was struck by how many senior athletes were racing with Team USA. Even in the older age groups, and how quick they were! So many veterans of multiple Worlds races! They were all so willing to welcome new racers to Worlds, share tips and advice,[…]
