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How to Eat Like An Olympian: Top Recipes for Making Your Own Gels

What's the best tip to perform like an Olympic Swimmer, Cyclist or Runner? The answer is to eat like an Olympian. In this Episode Joanna and Brandon show you how to eat like an Olympian by sharing their recipe showing you how to make your own nutrition gels.

Joanna Zeiger is a former professional triathlete, Olympian and Ironman 70.3 World Champion. In other words, she's not only crazy fast but she's spent countless hours training and running.

How to Stay Fit at Work: Top 7 Speedy Exercises you can do at your desk

What's the best way to stay fit at work when you are tied to a desk job? It's not easy to be best over a hot computer all day and still be race ready.

In this video we show you how to stretch at work with the Top 7 to stay loose and fit at work.

Joanna Zeiger is a former professional triathlete, Olympian and Ironman 70.3 World Champion. In other words, she's not only crazy fast but she's spent countless hours training and running.  Watch as JZ along with her training partner Brandon demonstrate great ways to stretch and exercises even when you stuck working behind a desk all day.

How to Run Like an Olympian: Top 5 Tips for your Best Ironman Marathon

What are the top 5 best tips to handle an Ironman Marathon?

In this video we show you how to run like an Olympian by teaching the Top 5 Tips to running a fast Ironman Marathon. Joanna Zeiger is a former professional triathlete, Olympian and Ironman 70.3 World Champion. In other words, she's not only crazy fast but she's spent countless hours training and running.

Check it out as JZ, along with her training partner Brandon, discuss and demonstrate the Top 5 Tips to race an Ironman Marathon that runners and triathletes should know if they want to run fast like an Olympian.

Video: How to Run Like an Olympian: Top 3 Tips to Handle the Uphills

What's the best tips to handle the hills when racing?

In this video we show you how to run like an Olympian by teaching the Top 3 Tips to Handle the Hills when racing. Joanna Zeiger is a former professional triathlete, Olympian and Ironman 70.3 World Champion. In other words, she's not only crazy fast but she's spent countless hours training and running.

How to Run Like an Olympian: Top 3 Tips to Handle the Hills

What's the best tips to handle the hills when racing?

In this video we show you how to run like an Olympian by teaching the Top 3 Tips to Handle the Hills when racing. Joanna Zeiger is a former professional triathlete, Olympian and Ironman 70.3 World Champion. In other words, she's not only crazy fast but she's spent countless hours training and running.

In this video we show you how to run like an Olympian by teaching the Top 3 Must Do Exercises. Joanna Zeiger is a former professional triathlete, Olympian and Ironman 70.3 World Champion.

How to Run Like an Olympian: Top 3 Exercises to Avoid (Part 1)

What are the top three excercises to avoid if you want a long running life.

In this how to video we show you how to run like an Olympian by teaching the Top Three Exercises to Avoid.

Joanna Zeiger is a former professional triathlete, Olympian and Ironman 70.3 World Champion. In other words, she's not only crazy fast but she's spent countless hours training and running.

JZ along with her training partner Brandon discuss and demonstrate the top three exercises for runners and triathletes to avoid...if you want to run faster, longer and smarter.

Video: Top Three Threadmill Indoor Training Tips

Most people know how to run. But can most people know how to run like an Olympian?

In order to run like an Olympian, you first neeed to train like an Olympian and that includes days when the weather is cold, foul and or just nastly.

In this fun and informative video former Olympian Joanna Zeiger and her training partner Brandon demonstrate the top three indoor running tips when you are on a treadmill.

EverymanTri Israman Triathlon Experience: Part 4 - Top 5 Things To Do In Israel

Hopefully you’ve had a chance to read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of the EverymanTri Israman Triathlon Experience. You’ve learned about Israeli culture, the scrumptious Mediterranean cuisine, and of course, one of the world’s toughest triathlons: the Israman triathlon .

Now it’s time to hunt down a few more unique experiences in Israel, and here are 5 extras that every triathlete will probably enjoy:

EverymanTri Israel Experience: Part 3 - Israman: It's Just A Thing - Top 10 Tips For Racing Israman Triathlon

If you missed Part 1 and Part 2 of this special series of articles from Israman triathlon in Eliat, Israel, I'd highly recommend you go and read them, especially if you want to impress your friends with interesting tidbits about this part of the world, or get your mouth watering over Mediterranean cuisine.

In this article, I'm going to get into the nitty-gritty of the Israman triathlon itself. If you've every thought about doing this race, or want a sneak peek into what one of the hardest Half Ironman and Ironman triathlons on the face of the planet is like, then keep reading.

Or if you just want to find out how to stand on a bike for 20 miles, make your feet bleed and pound downhills until your quads are weeping, you can also keep reading. Below are my top 10 tips for racing Israman triathlon.

1. Make A Mantra

You're going to experience a few tough moments during the race. The air temperature and water is a little chilly on race morning. It's still dark out when you start swimming. The first 20K of the bike is nearly all steep climbing. T1 is in a different place than T2, which means you climb and climb on the bike...but never get the dessert: descending. There's a lot of wind. You bike and run in exposed desert.

Top training aids that keep you trackable & safe when alone on a ride or run

Take a lesson from tragic deaths and injuries of triathletes or anyone else out for an innocent jog that didn’t come home as safe as they left. Recently in Kansas City, a young and well accomplished runner, youth pastor, husband, father to a 13 month old and a good friend to many died of suspected natural causes while out for a quick evening summer run. Why he died isn’t as important as how long it took to find him and the anguish felt by literally thousands while trying to find him. Chad Rogers went missing on a Monday night and was found the following Friday, just over 2 miles from home in a portable restroom.

Are all calories created equal?

In a blog post on my website earlier this week, I taught how to count your calories and log your diet the right way. But it’s important to realize that especially for triathletes, it’s the nutrient density and quality of your food that truly matters – not the calorie content.

But wait – a calorie is a calorie, right? 

Not really.

In the most recent such study to date, two groups were compared (O’Connor). One group ate slow sugar release, low glycemic index foods (think raw nuts or beef jerky) and another group ate faster release, high glycemic index foods (think white rice or wheat bread).

But both groups ate identical amounts of calories.

Researchers then monitored blood sugar levels and appetite of the subjects, and found that those consuming the high glycemic index foods had a blood sugar level crash just a few hours after eating, and were hungrier sooner compared to the group that ate the slower release foods.

Are You An Endurance Athlete With Overtraining or Adrenal Fatigue?

Recently, a very "beat up" triathlete showed me the results of his saliva testing for hormones.

They were really low. Even cortisol was low. Cortisol is the stress-release hormone we churn out when exercising and living, and when that drops low, it's a real warning sign that you're so beat up that your adrenal glands simply can't keep up with your extreme endurance lifestyle anymore!

So what did I recommend to this triathlete to "take care of his body" and bounce back from overtraining and adrenal fatigue?

How to Run like an Olympian: Top 10 excercises to make you Run Faster (Part 7)

In this part 7 video we show you how to run like an Olympian by teaching how to do well Belly Button Touch. Joanna Zeiger is a former professional triathlete, Olympian and Ironman 70.3 World Champion.

In other words, she's not only crazy fast but she's spent countless hours training and running.

In this seventh video JZ along with her training partner Brandon discuss and demonstrate the Top five exercises for runners and triathletes who want to run faster like an Olympian.

Check it out below.

Nutrition and recovery are important keys to triathlon training and racing

Sure you have may have heard of the three sports that make up a triathlon; swim, bike and run.  But, did you know there are more to it than those 3?  They may not be as apparent on race day, but if you ignore them, they can come back to bite you in the butt on race day.

There are many other aspects to a triathlon than the swim, bike and run, but for the sake of this post, we’re going to focus on the two additional most important disciplines of triathlon; nutrition and recovery.

Nutrition is nothing new.  Any triathlete that’s be “in country” for a while knows that once you get past the sprint distance, nutrition is a key role between a good day and a DNF.  After racing long course endurance events for a length of time, one comes to slowly realize the importance of nutrition during a race and how to apply those lessons.

How To Finish Ironman Triathlon Without Losing Muscle

Even though triathlon is the fastest growing sport on the planet, and the 1.2 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run Ironman races sell out thousands of slots in just a few minutes, it can be a bit depressing when you realize that conventional triathlon training doesn’t really give you a nice body – and instead just makes you really skinny or skinny-fat.

Apprehension about having that emaciated, marathoner-like appearance is a legitimate concern if maintaining muscle mass important to you. Having personally come from a bodybuilding background to compete in Ironman triathlon, this was a major concern for me– I didn’t want to watch in the mirror as my hard-earned muscle wasted away and I ended up looking like a skinny weakling.

But the truth is that to do Ironman triathlon successfully, you don’t actually have to lose precious muscle, get extremely skinny, or become a scrawny endurance athlete. You can still swim, bike and run fast while maintaining high amounts of functional muscle.
Here are three keys: