Since this is the final weekend of the year, it’s a fitting time to reflect on the highlights of the last 12 months. I recommend that all athletes spend some time making a list of the top rides, workouts, and experiences of the past year. Sometimes we move forward so quickly that we forget to…
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Health-Conscious Travel Means a Happy Vacation
By Chris Carmichael As a coach, one of the most stressful parts of a major competition is keeping the athletes healthy on the way to the venue. Ironically, when athletes push themselves to the point where they’re in peak competitive fitness, they’re also teetering on the edge of coming down with an illness. It doesn’t…
Read the full articleWeekend Reading: My Favorite Breakfast or Pre-Workout Super Smoothie Recipe
**Scroll down for recipe** Wow. Thank you so much to all of you who wrote me in response to last weekend’s blog and video about my top 10 core strength moves! I tried to write back to as many of you as I could, sorry if I missed a few. There were some great questions…
Read the full articleWeekend Reading: Chris Carmichael’s 10-Exercise Core Training Workout
**Scroll Down for video and text descriptions of the Core Workout I’m Doing This Week!** As I travel around the country to training camps and events, I get a lot of questions about core strength and stability training. People want to know what role core training should have in a cyclist or triathlete’s program, and…
Read the full articleWeekend Reading: Epiphanies from the Buffet (and a great vegan recipe)
With the Holiday Season now in full swing, I’ve noticed that it’s really interesting to approach a holiday buffet or cocktail party as a vegan. Well, almost a vegan. As I’ve said on this blog before, I’m not an ‘absolutist’ when it comes to eating. I’ve eliminated the vast majority of animal products from my…
Read the full articleWeekend Reading: Training Hard (Probably) Won’t Kill You
By now I figure many of you have already read the Wall Street Journal article, “One Running Shoe in the Grave”. If you haven’t, I encourage you to read it, and then I strongly urge you to read Alex Hutchinson’s response to the article on RunnersWorld.com. The gist of the WSJ article is that some…
Read the full articleWeekend Reading: Why Every Workout Counts Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s
As of this Saturday morning, I’m about 150 miles into my Thanksgiving Challenge, and it’s going to be touch-and-go as to whether I’ll make the full 250. In case you missed it, I decided last week to launch a Thanksgiving Challenge: ride 250 miles between Monday, November 19 and Sunday, November 25. It’s been quite…
Read the full articleTriathlon Training: Thanksgiving Meal Alternatives for Ironman Athletes
By Chris Carmichael With last week’s Ironman Arizona race, the year’s big events have wrapped up. And to everyone who competed in Kona, Coeur d’Alene and points in between, I congratulate you. If you’re like me, you’re likely going to sit down to a big meal with family this Thanksgiving and express your gratitude…
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This week I struggled to find the motivation to get out and ride. The weather wasn’t bad; actually it was pretty good for November in Colorado. But even with the sun out and temps in the 40s, I just didn’t feel like going out. Even though I’m typically the one doing the motivating around here,…
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If you haven’t already seen it, I highly recommend finding a showing of “Rising from the Ashes”, an outstanding film about the effort to build a Tour de France-caliber cycling team from Rwanda. One of my 7-Eleven teammates, Jock Boyer, has been working on Project Rwanda for several years, and CTS Coach Dave McIntosh is…
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