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Review: EnduroPacks offers a unique supplement solution for triathletes

Triathlon nutrition is a tricky wicket. Too much and you’re gaining weight, too little and you could hurt yourself, eat this, don’t eat that, take that supplement, don’t take that supplement. The latest major study even states that multivitamins do nothing to improve health (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/multivitamin-researchers-say-case-is-closed-supplements-dont-boost-health/). What’s a triathlete to do?

There’s so many factors that go into deciding what’s right for you. Are you wanting to lose weight? Are you wanting to add muscle to your frame? Are you racing sprint triathlons? Are you out training and exercising for 20 hours a week for fun? Are you trying to win your age group at the 70.3 distance?

Triathletes are a little different than your average person on the street, in many ways. But, for this review, more specifically the diet requirements are very particular. Some use triathlon as a ticket to eat whatever they want. Some use triathlon as a lifestyle to usher in health and a permanent way of a life. Hopefully your spouse and family is on board with that, but back to the review.

Review: The Marc Pro EMS is a great addition to the recovery toolbox for triathletes

How do you recovery after workouts and racing triathlons? It doesn’t matter if you are new to triathlons, racing short courses or an experiences ironman athlete of 15 years, you can’t ignore recovery. Sadly, many newer triathletes think that swim, bike and run are the only thing that matters. If you want to keep swimming, biking and running for a long time, then you need to set aside time and funding to properly recover.

You can recover through nutrition, active recover through less intense workouts, watch some tv on the couch, sleep and use products out on the market aimed at easing your sore muscles. From “black box” products that market to cure any ailment to tried and tested recovery shakes and multiple recovery products, there’s something for everyone.

Review: The GYST DB1-14 transition duffel bag is worth the expense

I may not be toting around the Denver Broncos with all of the logistics of transporting an NFL team around week after week, but  triathletes have a lot of crap to carry around to workouts and races. They probably travel MORE than an NFL team when you consider daily workouts traveling from home to the gym, from work to the gym, from the gym to work, from the gym to home and wherever else a workout may take us. I also don’t get a personal locker at our workout facilities to house our crud while not at the gym. Those NFL players are so pampered… but I digress. Lets not also forget transporting swim, bike and run gear to destination races.

Ugh.

TYR, Nike, Reebok, Louis Garneau, Zoot, Orca, Xterra, 2XU and more then I can list here make very sufficient options for triathletes to get all of their gear from point A to point B, but not all bags are created equal. When you need to carry gear for swimming, biking, running, strength training, yoga, pilates or whatever else you incorporate into your training and racing regimen, you need space, you need functionality and you need convenience. What’s the point of all of the zippers and pockets if you can’t get to your stuff quickly, the bag catches on everything when you walk around with it and it won’t fit all of your stuff?