Archive for January, 2010

The Essential Triathlon Swimming DVD. Discover the secrets to improving your swim technique, avoiding painful injuries, and shaving minutes off your best triathlon times to date!By David Wendkos david@triswimcoach.com I recently heard a great ‘word picture’ to help describe how to initiate your catch in the water and maintain a grip as you pull through your stroke. It is the common thought to [...]

In this episode, I interview swim instructor and coach Glenn Mills of GoSwim.tv who shares some great insight on swimming training. References: Sign up for the Tri Swim Coach newsletter at: www.triswimlessons.com or http://triswimcoachonline.com Please comment on this podcast! Tri Swim Coach podcast comments: Click here to open up itunes and add a rating/comment! Music: Pinback- “Devil You Know”   [...]

I’m currently training for a half marathon with a local running group, and we’re about a week away from starting our “taper” phase, which means we will slowly start to decrease mileage and intensity of our runs leading up to the race we are training for. I’m bracing for the nutrition plan our coach is going to recommend during this phase. Last time around, it was carbs galore, and when you [...]

Today, I had the pleasure of listening to an interview with Swedish pro triathlete Jonas Colting on the Livin la vida Low Carb show with Jimmy Moore. Jonas is a 36 year old champion triathlete in his prime, eating a low carbohydrate diet and clearly thriving. This supports much of what I discuss on the Healthy Mind Fit Body podcast about the superiority of low carb diets to the traditional low fat [...]

I’m about 2 weeks away from doing my first half marathon since April 09, and yesterday I realized how unprepared I am for the race. I ran 11.2 miles, and about the last 2.5 hurt! And, this was not at any kind of brisk pace, just finishing the run was the challenge yesterday. So today I am feeling the soreness! I missed 2 weeks of running in December with a cold, and slacked off around Christmas, [...]