It’s December and the goal is to maintain your weight! We are constantly researching and testing how food affects your fat burning. Hands down, Fat Burning is what we all want, especially during the holidays. From our research, it’s all about the breakfast. Does you breakfast help or hinder your fat burning? The above case […]
How High does your Heart Rate Go?! Are you a fast beater or slow beater? Has it changed over the years? You head to the gym and strap on your heart rate monitor. First question, the computer asks you, how old are you? Why? It wants to know your maximum heart rate (HR max) so […]
How Altitude Training is changing how we feel and perform Over the last two years, clients have repeatedly reported that they feel stronger, more powerful and recover faster after their Altitude exposures. Our study used elite cyclists whom all reported a power increase from as low as 10 watts and up to 25 watts over […]
Selina Campbell, PhD It’s that time of year when the focus race/event is done for most people so now is ideal to do a little reset. I have my athletes take 3-4 weeks of totally unstructured training – even (*gasp*) leave their heart rate monitor and/or powermeter at home and go purely by feel – […]
By Amanda Regnier, MSc. Strength & Conditioning If you have been following our TCR Instagram account, you may have noticed a few posts on our metabolism study! We often recommend our clients to focus on having foods high in protein/ fat and low in carbohydrates in the morning, to prolong fat burning. To verify […]
Oh, my Blood! It’s race week. Are you ready? Training camps are done. The goal you set this time last year is calling for closure. Are you ready? Have you trained enough? Is the equipment ready? What are you going to eat the day before and during your event? Have I booked the hotel?! These […]
WHY ALTITUDE TRAINING IS FOR YOU! THE BIGGEST misconception about exercising at altitude is that you have to be a high performance athlete. NOT TRUE! At TCR we have all types of people benefiting from their time in the altitude room. The percentage of Oxygen is changed inside the room to simulate a higher elevation. You can […]
Internal dialogue, also known as “the voice in your head,” can be the biggest saboteur to your performance. The average human mind transmits 50,000-70,000 thoughts each day, and up to 80% of these thoughts are negative in nature. As a coach, this is one of the biggest obstacles I observe athletes struggle to overcome. When […]
M I N D over M U S C L E pt. 1 (of a 3 part series) Janelle Summer Kendell, B.Kin Mental training is for everyone. An average recreational athlete trains their body for 8-10 hours per week, but most of them don’t dedicate a single hour to training their mind. The best athletes in any […]
THE SECRET TO FITNESS It’s amazing how the lingo of cycling has grown each year to the point that a conversation between two riders can sound like “foreign code” to the non-cyclist. “What’s your FTP (Functional Threshold Power) nowadays?” How many TSS points did you accumulate over that FTP test? Do you do the 20 min FTP test […]