Most athletes – at one time or another – have experienced muscle cramps. Whether it happens out on the course or comes as a “charlie horse” while resting later, it’s never a fun experience. So what causes muscle cramps? If you scour the internet, you can find tons of anecdotal stories – most related…
Nutrition
Should you drink coffee before workouts? It may depend on your genes.
Most of you runners and triathletes probably know that caffeine is widely accepted as a performance enhancer. Though the jury is still out on the exact mechanism, it is believed that caffeine functions in several ways related to endurance performance. It likely has a role reducing perception of fatigue by impacting certain receptors in the…
Weekly Meal Plan – 10/30 – 11/5
Happy Sunday! This weekend was really nice. I got up early at 5am on Saturday so that I could start the day getting a bunch of work done. I need to start doing that more often, because I always feel SO productive when it’s 8am and I’ve checked a lot off my to-do list. The…
Is the ketogenic diet good for runners and triathletes?
The ketogenic diet has been everywhere these days in the media, from pro athletes to health bloggers and beyond. If you take a look at Google Trends, you can see that it’s really exploded in popularity over the last year. But when it comes to the science, does this diet hold up? I’m hoping I…
How runners can fit in more strength training + nutrition tips for your workouts!
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Clif Bar & Company for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. I feel like most people in this world naturally gravitate towards either cardio or strength training. I know for me, I’m 100% a cardio girl. I can happily go run for an hour…
Weekly Meal Plan – 9/25 – 10/1
Is it already Sunday again?! I swear, this weekend flew by. We had a lot of fun this weekend though – we went to a fundraiser to support a friend’s marathon fundraising on Friday night and then went to a fall festival in our town on Saturday. Today has been a day for me to…
Weekly Meal Plan – 9/18 – 9/24
Happy Sunday, friends! I’ve got a long to-do list to get through today with tasks for work and things around the house, but I’m refreshed and ready to approach it after a nice lazy day yesterday. My family and I just hung around the house, watched TV, and relaxed pretty much all of Saturday. We…
Weekly Meal Plan – 9/11 – 9/17
Oh goodness, is it already Sunday afternoon? This weekend flew by. Yesterday and today I’ve spent a lot of time doing some recipe testing, which is great because a) it means I can get ahead a little bit on planning some recipe blog posts, and b) it means my fridge is now packed with some…
How to lose weight effectively while training for road races & triathlons
Picture this: you’re training for your next long distance road race or triathlon. You’ve got a great training routine planned out and you’re following it to the letter. You think to yourself with all that training, you’ve got to be losing a few extra pounds. Yet you step on the scale and to your dismay,…
Weekly Meal Plan – 8/28 – 9/3
Happy Sunday! We’ve had another fun weekend here at our house. Yesterday, an urgent care center near our area was having a grand opening party. Super random, but we decided to check it out and it was great – there was free lunch, an ice cream truck (where you could get as much as you wanted…