Triathlon Tips: The Bike – Getting Race Ready
You’re bike training is all done, you just need to show up and perform, but that's easier said than done. Let’s breakdown how to get race ready.
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Routine exercise and physical fitness has many benefits. In addition to building muscular strength and endurance, and improving flexibility, keeping active can improve your cardiorespiratory performance, helping to keep your heart, lungs and circulatory system healthy, which can reduce the risk of certain conditions and diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, and certain types of cancer. Regular exercise and staying physically fit can also help you manage a healthy weight, improve your mood, and reduce fatigue and stress. Look no further for fitness tips and workout routines than More Than Our Story’s fitness articles below:
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Triathlon Tips: The Bike – Unlocking Your Speed
Unlocking your speed on the bike involves a combination of physical training, technique, and dedication. Here are some tips to help you get faster:
Triathlon Tips: The Bike – The Mental Game
Mental preparation is an important training component for triathlons. Here are some strategies to enhance your mental toughness and focus on the bike.
Fitness Articles
A Day In My MS Life
Stephen Glaus shares his MS story, what it's like living a day in his life, and his mindset on waging war daily against this disease.
Triathlon Tips: The Bike – Choosing The Right Bike
Choosing the right bike for your triathlon journey depends on numerous factors, let's breakdown some of the considerations.
Triathlon Tips: The Swim – Dryland Training
Getting better at swimming isn’t just an aquatic endeavor - strength, endurance, and flexibility can all be improved through dryland training.
Triathlon Tips: The Swim – Building Endurance
Jillian Best gives her tips on how to train to swim longer, further, and improve endurance with a safe, enjoyable, injury free approach.
Triathlon Tips: The Swim – Leave The Pool
Open water swimming, often considered the purest form of the sport, offers a unique and exhilarating experience for swimmers of all levels.
Triathlon Tips: The Swim – Don’t Go It Alone
You're not alone. Finding a great coach and team to train with is one of the most important things you can do to improve your swimming.
Triathlon Tips: Overview
Each month we focus on one aspect of the three disciplines, swimming, biking and running, and provide updates on our race season along the way.
Brandon Throop
Brandon shares his story, from his diagnosis with non-Hodgkin lymphoma to his aggressive treatment and current remission from the disease. He also talks about his fundraising.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: December ’23
Joe wraps up the year and the dumbbell portion of the series with the Dumbbell Snatch.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: November ’23
This month on the dumbbells Joe Tolles tackles the challenging Devil Press.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: October ’23
Moving on now to the ubiquitous dumbbell and this month we’re learning the Dumbbell Thruster.
Bob Knuckey
Bob Knuckey, 75-year-young, endurance athlete extraordinaire became a 2-time, age-group IRONMAN world champion this year in Nice, France.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: September ’23
Our final gymnastic movement on the pull-up bar for this month is the one and only: Bar Muscle-Up.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: August ’23
Next up on the pull-up bar, the infamous CrossFit pull-up: The Kipping Pull-Up.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: July ’23
We’re moving to the pull-up bar for our next series of movements. First up is the core-focused movement: Toes To Bar.
Homemade Sports Drinks
Today we’re going to take a look at electrolytes, what they do, and how you can make your own (and a lot cheaper) homemade electrolyte-based sports drinks.
Why I Love Triathlon
How triathlon helps maintain my positivity, gives me a sense of accomplishment, a supportive community, and has helped me come to terms with my illness.
Tips To Keeping Active
24 hours, where do they go? We never seem to have enough time to stay in shape. Here are some great tips to help you find time to keep active.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: June ’23
In the final installment of our current three-part series, Joe breaks down the mechanics behind his favorite CrossFit movement: the Squat Snatch.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: May ’23
In this second installment of our current three-part series, Joe breaks down the mechanics behind the Overhead Squat.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: April ’23
In this first installment of our next three-part series, Joe breaks down the mechanics behind the Power Snatch.
Work It Out
Get your heart racing with these energizing songs compiled in this ever changing workout playlist.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: March ’23
In this final installment of the three-part series Joe breaks down the mechanics behind his favorite lift: The Clean and Jerk.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: February ’23
Building on the movement learned last month - Joe breaks down the mechanics behind the power clean, in part two of a three-part series.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: January ’23
In part one of a three-part series, Joe breaks down the mechanics behind the deadlift – one of CrossFit’s foundational movements.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: December ’22
A barbell complex with a twist, and a new spin on a traditional, old school benchmark workout are the focus for this month's CrossFit Series.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: November ’22
Heavy lifting and high-skill gymnastics under fatigue are this month's focus. Buckle up and get ready to push yourself to the limit.
Choosing The Right Bike Trainer
Whether you’re training for an event or keeping active indoors there’s a trainer for you. Learn how to go about choosing the right one.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: October ’22
This month Joe covers a quick and nasty testing day that pushes your strength and capacity limits to the max.
How I Got Bitten by the Tri Bug
Denise shares her emotional story as she follows Dan on his first IronMan 70.3 journey since his life-changing operation.
Setting Yourself Up For Triathlon Success
Learn about some of the variables and strategies to consider when choosing the right race to set yourself up for triathlon success.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: September ’22
This month's workout is focused on gynamics with both easier and high-skill movements performed under fatigue which compound upon each other.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: August ‘22
Joe breaks down this month's tough workout that will leave you smashed. Part strength training, part cardio, all tough.
Ultimate Bodyweight Workout Guide
Lose weight, build muscle and improve your cardio and mood with quick bodyweight workouts you can do anywhere, anytime.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: July ‘22
Joe breaks down his rationale behind adding longer aerobic cardio training to supplement more traditional CrossFit style training.
Joe Tolles CrossFit Series: June ‘22
For the first Joe Tolles CrossFit Series I chose a Friday workout. Front Squats for the strength portion, and 15-minute full send to finish.
Advanced Bodyweight Workout
Looking for the ultimate bodyweight challenge? Get ready, because this one is rough!
Intermediate Bodyweight Workout
Not too advanced. Not too beginner. This one is just right!
Beginner Bodyweight Workout
Just getting into bodyweight workouts? No problem! We've got the workout for you.
How Often Should I Run?
Want to start running? Want to run more? This article will help answers some of your questions, and give you some pointers along the way.