The Mavic Haute Route Rockies is likely to represent a significant increase in your total weekly training volume and workload. In many cases, the event may be on your bike for TWICE as many hours as you normally ride in a week. As you’re preparing for the upcoming challenge, it is important to recognize that …
Whether you are a triathlete, runner, cyclist, or another endurance athlete you need accurate physiological data to guide and monitor your training by. Lactate threshold and VO2 Max are two of the most commonly, and effectively, used performance markers used by many athletes and coaches. The point is to learn the highest intensity at which …
Chris Carmichael CEO/Head Coach of CTS People don’t make food choices based on nutrition. The nutrient-density and composition of a food plays a role, but people also choose foods based on cost, ethics, politics, purity, allergies and intolerances (real or perceived), and environmental concerns. Plant-based meat is one of the newest foods to throw …
Groove Continues to Provide Support Vehicles and VIP Experience for CTS Athletes (January 29, 2018 – Colorado Springs, CO) – Groove Automotive in Denver, Colorado has been the Official Support Vehicle of CTS since 2015 and will continue to support CTS Athletes at events and training camps in 2018. The vehicle partnership with Groove has …
By Syd Schulz, CTS Athlete and Pro Mountain Bike Racer It’s January, the trails are closed due to slop, the weather is gross and (depending on where you live) there isn’t even enough snow for decent skiing. Maybe you just got in to a big goal event, or your New Year’s resolution is to get …
By Paul Ruggiero CTS Triathlon Coach You’re not lukewarm on him. There’s no in between here. You love him or you hate him. He’s possibly the most polarizing person in sports and for the third year in a row, and fourth year out of five, he’s led his team to the Super Bowl. Tom Brady, …
CTS Expands Industry Partnerships in 2018 Including ProBar, GQ-6, Rudy Project, Ultimate Direction, Fluid Recovery, Helix, and Halo Neuroscience (January 22, 2018 Colorado Springs, CO) – As performance coaching and training camps pioneer CTS celebrates its 18th Anniversary in 2018, the company today announced the addition of several new product partners. These partnerships are indicative …
The next big thing for the National Football League and National Basketball Association will probably be the use of augmented reality technology to help fans get closer to the action. But no matter how they change the viewing experience, they can’t create an experience that allows a fan to feel what it’s like to play …
By Mara Abbott 2016 Olympian, CTS Athlete, and new CTS Contributing Editor When you commit to your true goals, they will demand hard work and require concessions. They will request that you sometimes give up the certainty you are going to make it through all this in one piece. Your true, authentic goals are …
By Corrine Malcolm, CTS Ultrarunning Coach With the growing popularity of ultrarunning, races are selling out faster than ever before. More races are moving to lottery formats – or already have them – to distribute entries, and those who don’t get in through the lottery are often placed on a wait list. While wait …