Nashville Trip

I was honored to be one of the coaches at the Southeast Junior Triathlon Camp this weekend in Nashville, Tennessee.  It was quite a 2.5 day camp with 27 athletes ranging in age from 12 to 19. Kathleen Johnston did a phenomenal job organizing the camp and making sure the schedule was adhered to.

My partner in crime, Susan Williams, and I took the lead on most of the sessions which included nutrition, strength, swim skills and a timed test, bike skills, run skills and a timed test and transition practice.

I was most proud of the young athletes as each and every one of them were well-mannered, appreciative and most importantly, great athletes at such a young age!

Enjoy some photos and thanks again to Kathleen and the USAT Southeast region!

Coach Bob

coachbob@fuel4mance.com

3 states in 7 days!

What a crazy week of travel!  I was in Tucson, Arizona then San Francisco, California followed up by Clermont, Florida.  It was a crazy week but I managed to get some good runs in for the most part and continue my training for Leadman.

I'm on track with my training and am up to 2 hour runs and about 90 minute mountain bike rides.  The Achilles pain is still here but manageable.  I am extremely proactive about keeping it healthy, stretched and strengthened!

With all of the travel, I have managed to keep to my nutrition guns pretty well.  Nuts go a long way!

I made a killer stir-fry that the kiddos loved last night.  Sauteed some broccoli and cauliflower then took it off the heat and dumped in some olive oil so the veggies soak up the oil.  Added some higher protein pasta by Zone Living to it and made it a complete meal!  

My little tip for the day: when you cook with olive oil at high heat, you degrade the benefits of the oil so be sure to put the oil back into the mix when you take it off the heat.  

Enjoy!

Coach Bob

coachbob@fuel4mance.com

Weight Loss

I am moving into my 16th year of being in this field and have to say that my knowledge base and views have changed quite a bit throughout based on the latest research but most importantly, on my hands-on experience with athletes of all ages and abilities.  I have learned a great deal about nutrition and athletes and tend to be one of the most "outside the box" sport dietitians around (at least that is what I am told!).  

I pride myself on this as I truly combine the research with the application of real-life nutrition strategies for athletes.  As I enter my 16th year, I have realized how popular weight loss and body composition changes.  Based on this, I have begun offering my Weight Loss for Athletes workshop around the country and have received some very, very positive feedback from participants.  Here are just a couple of nice things that some have commented to me about it:

"I just want to thank you so much for a brilliant class you delivered!  I loved all the information you shared and finally feel like I have better tools to embrace eating in a healthier way than ever before and to be able to more confidently support my clients, swim teams (age group and masters) and swim parents with nutritional strategies.  The information is simple, doable and most of all makes sense!  I've been trying out the "eat from the inside out" and boy what a difference in just 3 days!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!  Truly you have no idea how much your class supported me."

"I will absolutely say that you challenged my way of thinking about nutrition...well, actually, I think you probably just gave me permission to approach nutrition according to my but instead of by the numbers, myths and trends.  It's amazing that the idea of eating intuitively is somehow revolutionary...and yet it is, certainly in our sport.  I appreciate your courage to offer up your own model based on your experience.  So thank you!"

Stay tuned to www.fuel4mance.com for more information about when and where this workshop will pop up next.  You will see them in Los Angeles, Chicago, Clermont (Florida) and New York City.

Challenging conventional wisdom and the "why things have to be done this way" approach,

Coach Bob

coachbob@fuel4mance.com