AVIA shoe winners!

Congratulations to our two contest winners in the draw for a pair of new AVIA running shoes. Our mens winner is Josh (email ends with knaconsulting.com). Our female winner is Jessica (with an email address that ends in roadrunner.com). Please contact us directly from the email address you used to sign up. [...]

Do you get shoulder pains from swimming?

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As triathletes we’re very devoted to freestyle swimming.  That, combined with hours in the aero position can lead to some extremely tight pecs, lats, and triceps, at the same time leaving your back and upper [...]

Post your goal on your wall

This is a great trick that I’m sure some of you have heard before. Take your most desirable short term goal, write it on a piece of paper, and stick it to your wall or bathroom mirror.  This will reinforce your reason for training every day as you head out the door.

Want to break [...]

Set your benchmark

As the season starts to wind down, for most, it’s a great time to set some fitness benchmarks. Benchmarks are key to tracking improvement and ensuring that your training is actually doing what it’s supposed to do.  They’re also a good way to see how much you slacked off during the winter!!  Depending on the [...]

Strengthen your feet

If you’re reading this tip – you’re lucky. I would consider it one of the biggest lessons we’ve learned as triathletes.

As promised in the last tip about avoiding orthotics, here’s some great ideas to get you going on strengthening your feet. Having strong feet will help eliminate the need to throw corrective support [...]

New Look

Ironmantriathlontips.com has taken up a new look. Bare with us while we make small changes here and there over the next week, this will hopefully provide a more user friendly experience…and allow the comments to work properly which they rarely did on the past layout.

So, we’ll have another tip coming shortly. Hopefully something [...]

Avoid orthotics and supportive insoles

This one will no doubt be controversial, and we welcome your comments if you find otherwise. However, we’re pretty hard headed on this topic and can pretty much guarantee (no guarantees) there’s a better (and much cheaper) way to solve your run pains than to get yourself some orthotics or supportive insoles. This [...]

Bring the trainer

One of the most efficient and safest ways to get your race week riding done is to do so on the trainer. Especially those last couple rides before the big day that are simply to keep the blood flowing.
For one thing, you can get a quality ride in with no stopping or worrying about [...]

Stay out of the Mags

We always look forward to the latest edition of our favorite sports magazine. Whether it be Triathlete, VeloNews, or the monthly edition of Guns and Knives. But, with 3 weeks to go until an important race…stay away. Nothing good is going to come of the latest and greatest advice on how to [...]

Heart Palpatations

Have you ever been lying in bed and had your heart stop briefly? Only to have it resume with a massive one-off catch up beat? Well, we’ve had this checked out recently and apparently it’s nothing to be concerned about (in our case, anyway. You may want to get your own heart [...]

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