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Coaching and Training - Helping You Maximize Your Performance
You might be contemplating your first triathlon or duathlon or maybe you think it's time to take on an Ironman. The question is how do you prepare yourself with quality information to take you the next level? Since we are not professional coaches we have asked a group of coaches to help us get you the best advice in your training, health and fitness. We will continue to add new coaches to get more opinions on training. We will also provide links to all of these coaches should you wish to contact them yourself.
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These coaches have also generously donated coaching prizes in out Season Long Draw
Coaches
Toronto, GTA and Surrounding Area
As
a professional triathlete, Richard Pady has represented
Canada at 5 World Championships, 4 Ironman events and has 14 years of
high performance training in the sport of triathlon. Healthy
Results Training focuses on promoting a balanced approach to
exercise and lifestyle change by working closely with each client to
ensure that they are performing a safe and effective training program.
As a coach, Richard has worked with clients whose goals, ages, and abilities
are very diverse. Richard's passion is to help any person to strive
for a new level of fitness, health, and lifestyle. With hard work combined
with a fun, effective training program, he believes that anyone can
achieve Healthy Results!
At NRG
Performance Training we combine science and experience to
optimize your performance. Head Coach Nigel Gray has over 8 years
of coaching experience and has been traveling around the world racing
as a Pro for the last 11years. To ensure the most effective training
program we use lactate testing to set out individualized heart rate
and power zones as well as monitoring performance improvements. These
zones are then incorporated into a program that is designed to have
your training fit into your lifestyle and not the other way around.
Our individualized programs will optimize your training time and
race performance whether you are a beginner or professional athlete.
At NRG Performance Training we believe in offering the highest level
of service and we believe the only way to accomplish this is by limiting
the number of athletes each coach will work with. Are you ready to
maximize your performance?
Coach
Kelvin – Stroke Technician – Oannes Swims Kelvin
Landolt comes from a competitive swimming background; more than ten years
in age group competitive swimming, competing nationally
for Canada (Division 2) in 1982. He came back to swimming in ‘92
as a competitive master swimmer. Since ‘95 as an athlete, his
focus has been more on open water and distance swimming (5–10
km distance) in competition, for fitness and recreation. In 2000, Coach
Kelvin was posted as the Head Coach for the Downtown Swim Club, Toronto,
www.dsctoronto.ca - a community based adult club
offering competitive, fitness and social swimming program. He is the
founder, director and Head Coach of Oannes Swims (Toronto based) www.oannesswims.com
- which aligns triathletes, competitive & solo
swimmer with professional qualified coaches for spectacular training
events.
Adam
Johnston and The Endurance Lab is an endurance training
center offering services to athletes involved in triathlon, running,
and/or road cycling. The Endurance Lab specializes in personal coaching,
lactate testing, and personalized Compu Trainer riding.
IronHeart Cardiac Health and Fitness - Zach Weston is a Kinesiologist and Exercise Physiologist certified with both the American College of Sports Medicine and the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. Zach is a professor in the Kinesiology Department at Wilfrid Laurier University where he teaches Human Anatomy, Human Nutrition for Health and Performance and Advanced Exercise Testing and Prescription. He has coached and trained athletes in many sports including triathlon, duathlon, marathon, hockey, basketball, lacrosse, and football. His clientele range from the beginner recreational athlete to the amateur and professional athletes. Zach is also a triathlete and will be racing for Team Polar Canada in 2008.
Zach's human performance testing and training facilities in Waterloo and at the University of Guelph provide VO2max testing and anaerobic/performance threshold breath by breath analysis on both the treadmill and computrainer. Using this information, exercise training programs are developed to optimize your results to achieve your goals.
NB Fitness - Nate Bower is a certified personal trainer, fitness expert and boxing instructor based out of Toronto Ontario, Canada.
Nate Bower Fitness is regarded as a high intensity, reputable fitness company. Nate is currently one of Ontario's top Duathletes and comes from a background deeply rooted in sport and fitness. He is a four time Nova Scotia provincial boxing champion from 2002 to 2006, a former track and field provincial champion and has been a competitive athlete for the past 20 years. These experiences have given him the drive and passion to take clients to the top of their game. Nate's dedication to training is evident in his training methods and techniques.
Eastern Ontario
Personal Excellence Coaching
Services Jane Armstrong has over 20
years of experience coaching all ages and abilities. My degree in psychology,
coupled with
my extensive
formal
training in coaching methods, and my own athletic experience, allows
me to develop effective training on a personal level. Racing and training
as a high performance athlete is a physically, emotionally and mentally
rewarding challenge. I have completed more than 250 running, cycling
and multisport races, including 13 Duathlon World Championships to
date. This challenge improves the quality of my life and serves as
an example to others. I firmly believe in developing the mental training
aspects of the sport as well as the physical aspects. If your primary
goal is personal excellence, my commitment and passion as a coach is
to guide you in maximizing your training efforts, based on your individual
needs.
Zone3Sports Coach
Rick Hellard's Philosophy: “My philosophy
is very simple: I believe that systematic and progressive hard work
pays off,
whether that means working hard
to improve swim technique or hard work on the hills pedaling, people
won't improve without putting in the time and pushing themselves beyond
the comfort level, but doing so in a proper sequence. I also believe
there is no substitute for experience, and I have lots of that and
am happy to share it with my clients."
My goals for every athlete are equally simple: keep them healthy; make sport a part of their life, not just a phase; get them to the start line healthy, rested and ready to go; get them to the finish as quickly as possible.
Western Ontario
hris Helwig has been coaching endurance athletes since 1994. Based out of London Ontario Chris has coached Multi Sport athletes of all levels from Try a Tri up to Kona Qualifiers. While Chris' background is in competitive road cycling and time trialing he has recently started doing Multi Sport events and has coached Cross Country running. His philosophy is to personalize each athletes program based around their goals, history of physical activity, lifestyle considerations and time availability. Chris offer's Personalized Coaching as well as Testing Services.
Books On Training
Human Kinetics has a complete library of books on all aspects of training and conditioning, no matter what the sport. Here are two examples:
The
Woman Triathlete is a book with by Christine Gandolfo with
expert advice on equipment, nutrition, and a host of other topics
ensures you’ll find targeted information on each topic. Written
by women for women, this book is both a comprehensive and personal
guide to becoming the best and fastest triathlete you can be.
Current Her Sports and former Triathlete editor in chief Christina Gandolfo assembled an all-star cast of female triathletes and coaches. Barb Lindquist teaches swim technique. Bettina Younge explains how to maximize efficiency on the bike. Heather Fuhr offers insights for striding ahead of the competition on the run. Gale Bernhardt, Siri Lindley, and Lori Bowden present a complete blueprint for excelling in sprint, Olympic, and long-distance races.
Christina Gandolfo is the editor in chief of Her Sports magazine and the former editor in chief of Triathlete magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Diego State University and has more than 14 years of publishing experience.
To purchase the book just click on the image above.
5k
and 10k Training - Make your workouts count with the breakthrough
system that synchronizes your energy levels with training effort.
Instead of fighting your body to finish a workout just because it’s
written on the calendar, choose the most effective workouts from
5K and 10K Training based on your body’s capacity to perform
at any given time.
Brian Clarke has conducted training programs for Hawaii’s runners, joggers, and walkers since 1979. Along with the Brian Clarke School of Running, he is also the director of Island Triathlon Training, which has prepared recreational athletes for Hawaii’s major triathlons since the early 1980s.
To purchase the book just click on the image above.