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| Jan 24, 2012 |
Coach Lance Watson Speaking in Portland on February 4, 2012
LifeSport Head coach Lance Watson will share stories of athletic excellence, overcoming odds and lecturing on creating an athlete's season plan for maximum performance.
Lance has coached athletes to Olympic Games Gold, 20+ Ironman wins, World #1... |
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Great Post Workout Meals to Replace Energy Stores and Enhance Recovery
by LifeSport Coach Jessica Adams |
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One of the best things about being an endurance athlete is raiding the cupboards and refrigerator after getting home from a great workout. Food will basically never taste as good or is never as well deserved as after a long ride or tough track session! But before you dive in with reckless abandon, think about this meal as a very important part of your workout and overall training plan. The following meal ideas will help to optimize all the hard work that is put into your training sessions so that they translate into improved performance and faster recovery.
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Off Road training - Mountain biking to build your biking strength
By Coach Dan Smith |
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Unless the ground is completely covered with inches of snow, fall and winter are good seasons to add mountain biking to your training. Riding off road adds variety, preventing the bike from getting stale; one can focus on other aspects of cycling, increasing the feel for pressure on the pedals, building strength and improving bike handling skills. As an added bonus, there is always a challenge – whether it is cleaning a particularly technical section of trail or exploring a trail that goes much further than you can run. Plus it is much easier to get on a mountain bike when it is raining!
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It isn't Over at the Finish Line
By LifeSport Coach Lucy Smith |
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Are you ready for the day after your last 'A' race of the year?
Athletes often plan their season meticulously and prepare for races with an energy and passion that is unmatched elsewhere in their lives. You have a training plan mapped over several months and every day is a session that brings you closer to your goal. From taking care of your body to tinkering with your bike and gear, you create a forward momentum to your goal race that becomes a constant part of your life. You are committed to eating well, sleeping well, and making positive choices on a daily basis to support your big goal races. You even have a vision of what that finish is going to look like and how you feel crossing it. This is awesome and a fantastic part of sport, but do you have a picture of the day after?
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How to Pick the Right Ironman for You
By LifeSport Coach Paul Regensburg |
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Over the last 10 years the popularity of Ironman has exploded in North America and to meet the demand, races have been added and registration limits expanded with most races now accepting over 2500 participants. Even with this increased opportunity to race, the events sell out within a week so selecting the event you would like to enter is a process that needs to be done a year in advance. Many of the races offer the incumbent participants first dibs on the next year's event but after that its "first come, first served" so plan well and be prepared for next year's registration immediately after the current event.
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How To Tweak Your Race Day Performance
By LifeSport Coach Chris Thomas |
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Race day is meant to be the celebration of the training journey. All to many times, however, athletes become far to anxious to allow themselves to have their optimal race day. There are many potential distractions on race day. The air is filled with nervous excitement. It can be very easy to listen to the negative thoughts that might creep into your head.
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Half Iron Nutrition Strategies
By LifeSport Coach Lance Watson |
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The aim for a bike leg of a Half Ironman is to propel you strongly to the start of the run. The aim of the run is have enough fuel left in your body to show off your fitness. If you have practiced sound nutrition over the 56 miles of riding, you will be able to begin the run in great condition and complete the 13.1 miles with minimal slowing down.
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Triathlon in your 50s and Beyond
By LifeSport Coach Bruce Regensburg |
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More and more people are doing triathlons in the plus 50 age groups. It used to be a novelty to see people past 60 doing the sport. Now it is quite commonplace. However, for people who have been doing the sport for some years, age 50 and beyond raises new challenges.
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Cycling Training Trips
By lifeSport Coach Toni Kristinsson |
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Whether you cycle exclusively or are a triathlete the benefits to cycle specific training are the same. Trying to replicate the conditions you compete in during training or portions thereof will better prepare you for racing. So here are some focuses for training that will help make your racing a better experience. Full article
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TIPS ON FOCUS: as posted on LifeSport’s Facebook
By Lance Watson |
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We all hear “focus on process and the outcome will take care of itself” and it will be maximized. To do so, create a script to keep you on task. What do you have to do during the race? Don’t fixate on what you shouldn’t be doing, focus on what you need to be thinking about to stay in the moment.
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Why Using Your Brain Matters
By LifeSport Coach Lucy Smith |
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The ancient Egyptians thought that the heart
was the human centre of emotion, thought, and intention. At the end of the day,
they would pick the brain out of the skull and unceremoniously throw it away,
but would take great care in preserving the heart, putting it into a special
canopic jar to be entombed with the mummified body. Without the knowledge of the
physical body and neuroscience that we have now it is not hard to understand how
they might feel that a person is ruled by their heart. Even today, modern
champions are said to run with guts, with pure passion, from the heart. We
rarely hear a commentator say, “She really ran with her brain
today!”
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