What is motivation? How do we find it? Why do we need it? What happens when we cannot get motivated?! In this Coaches Corner our team dives into the topic of motivation and how to keep yourself moving in the right direction towards your personal health and fitness goals.

★★★ Walk this way

Cliff Scherb · June 24, 2022

In this coaches corner we lay out the strategies you should use when walking is a part of your plan. Whether the goal is to increase your steps, lose weight, or gain fitness our coaches detail how to put your best foot forward!

Athlete Resources, ★★★, Health and Wellness

★★★ Time Management for health and fitness

Cliff Scherb · April 26, 2022

Why it’s worth your time? In this time management article we are going to teach you how to take back your time for your health and fitness. You will learn; A. Why everyone can and should use their time more wisely. B. How to manage your time best. C. What you can do with that free time to boost your health and fitness.

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★★★ Coaching your personality

Cliff Scherb · December 16, 2021

Taking a high-quality personality test can have a range of benefits for you as an athlete and help your Tristar coaches in your training development. It helps you as an athlete to prepare for your goal/race and provides our coaches with the necessary insights to make the right coaching choices to develop your training plan and take it to the next level!

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★★★ Garmin data to power your training

Cliff Scherb · November 29, 2021

Garmin sports products have made the world of endurance sports simply put; faster. The data your watch and cycling device captures each day tells us how you are faring in your training and day to day life metrics. Our coaches detail how to use that information with your training and plans to execute your next personal best.

Nutrition, ★★★

★★★ ELITE team grocery store and nutrition walk through

Cliff Scherb · August 12, 2021

Join the Tristar coaches as they take you aisle by aisle on Zoom to select the best foods for your endurance goals. Learn how to time your macronutrients for optimal training performance, your lifestyle, body composition and day to day activities.

Athlete Resources, Season Planning, ★★★

★★★ Faster during the COVID-19 "Off season"

Cliff Scherb · July 15, 2020

Once you have turned the corner into the off season and your mental mojo has kicked back in, its time to get focused on your training ahead. Our coaches walk you through the planning processes of this key phase as a major opportunity towards your future race potential.

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★★★ Training on fatigue, how much is too much?

Cliff Scherb · February 25, 2020

Tristar athlete, you are training hard.. really hard?! …And you have been more consistent than ever in your dedication and approach. Are you feeling you are poised for something great…. yet you are tired and questioning whether or not you will get there. Are you ready? How can you tell crippling fatigue from fatigue that can generate a higher level of training?

Running, ★★★

Run training block introduction

Cliff Scherb · December 20, 2019

Tristar Athlete, your next block is posted in Training Peaks and the plan has been adjusted and calibrated towards your goals. The following rules are key to a run focused block as your prepare for your weekly sessions.

Athlete Resources, ★★★

★★★ Training plan flexibility; Playing your sessions like a weekly deck of cards 🃏

Cliff Scherb · December 16, 2019

Tristar athlete at some point your coach and you may decide for you to be more flexible in your plan approach. At times this can help you to get to more sessions or provide the life and schedule flexibility needed to be successful in your training and goals.

Athlete Resources, Running, Training Peaks, ★★★, CTL

Estimating key continuous training loads for stand alone running (CTL's)

Cliff Scherb · December 10, 2019

Tristar Athletes, In this table we present the peak continuous training load score for each athlete. Recall that CTL score is a rolling average of your daily training stress score over the past 42 days. Your peak CTL is the highest CTL you achieve in a period of training. The numbers in this table help you select your training hours and load that’s best for you and your ability.

Athlete Resources, Season Planning, ★★★

★★★ Faster in the Off season

Cliff Scherb · October 23, 2019

Once you have turned the corner into the off season and your mental mojo has kicked back in, its time to get focused on your training ahead. Our coaches walk you through the planning processes of this key phase as a major opportunity towards your future race potential.

swimming, ★★★

★★★ Swimming 🏊🏼 should i swim more or less as a triathlete?

Cliff Scherb · October 16, 2019

In this coaches corner, our coaches “dive in” to swimming and the overall benefits and how they are applied to the time crunched athlete.

Athlete Resources, Psychology, ★★★

★★★ Training flexibility

Cliff Scherb · October 9, 2019

During training you will find that being “training flexible” can help to move you forward in your plan when static weekly training seems too rigid. Note that Tristar plans are adaptive and changing constantly, however we have found the following options to be super helpful for near year round performance.

Athlete Resources, ★★★

★★★ Racing and training in the heat

Cliff Scherb · September 23, 2019

Tristar Athlete, at some point in your training and racing you will be forced to perform in extreme heat conditions. In this coaches corner we detail the strategies that you should use to stay cool, how to think and prepare to get the maximum out of training and racing.

Athlete Resources, Recovery, Season Planning, ★★★

★★★ Planning for your "rest" and approaches to the off season

Cliff Scherb · September 16, 2019

Tristar Athlete, depending on how long and hard your racing season was you will need some period of a break both physically and mentally. Recharging the battery makes it possible to achieve new peaks when the valleys are planned just right. Our coaches have laid out these ground rules towards helping you determine how best to approach this planned for key phase; we believe this is just as important as the peak build phases our athletes must complete before major races. Take as much time off as you need.. but remember fitness waits for no one and neither does your competition!

Athlete Resources, ★★★, Psychology

Dealing with training and racing self doubt

Cliff Scherb · September 4, 2019

As an athlete self doubt is a normal feeling and is actually “business as usual” to us as coaches. We know pushing your limits, finding your “why” and being consistent is hard work. Its only natural that time to time you feel anxiety about your training and racing performances. Our coaches have put together this write up for you to remove the emotion and be logical about where you are, where you stand and how to find confidence.

Running, ★★★

★★★ Staying injury free on your run

Cliff Scherb · August 26, 2019

Running as a sport is highly demanding and for most endurance athletes from time to time it lands them in injured territory throughout their career. Unlike swimming and cycling which can be forgiving when you go too hard, running has a higher cost when it comes to the injuries we see. Our coaches provide our top tips for your run and how to stay fast and injury free.

Athlete Resources, swimming, ★★★

Cliff Scherb · August 21, 2019

When it comes to the swim, things look a bit different when it comes to TSS. How so? You may have noticed that certain swims award you a lot of TSS points while other swims may not. There are several factors we highlight here for you to consider to maintain TSS accuracy in your swimming.

Biking, Athlete Resources, testing, ★★★, Time Trialing

Cliff Scherb · August 3, 2019

Critical power and critical pace are the same as mean max for any given amount of time or distance. We use critical power and pace to benchmark and raise total levels of endurance in your training.

For this training session below learn how to find your peak curves for power, pace, heart rate or distance to execute your “CP” workouts.