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This is where the athletes of the Commerzbank Triathlon Teams let you in on some of their personal tips. In addition to information about the right training programme, advice is given on how to choose equipment as well as the dietary requirements for athletes.

Winter Training - Interview with Scott Neyedli

(04.02.2009)

What do you have to consider by training in degrees under zero?

Stay indoors & train more often or If you do go outside wrap up very warm. Some times the sensible thing is to stay indoors to prevent catching colds or risking injury...more

Swimming: Why technique training is worthwhile

(04.02.2009)

No question: the relation is ambivalent. A lot of athletes have feelings as aversion and fear when they only think about swimming. But it is worth it to work on that discipline...more

Great nutty corners

(23.12.2008)

Cookies and biscuits are definitely a part of Christmas. So I would like to present my absolute favourite recipe: “Great nutty corners” – a classic, which my mother rarefied a little.
I wish you all Merry Christmas and lots of fun with baking and eating these awesome cookies...more

Stress to plan: That’s how training works

(22.12.2008)

The hardest workouts don’t have a great effect, when the timing of the training plan is not right. Only who knows the exact courses of his body, is able to set the right stimuli to the right time.

Fitness in 4 steps

Endurance- or interval method, strength- or pace training: Triathletes discuss the effect of different methods a lot in their daily training sessions. Not known very well so far is the timing of a good training plan. What ergonomic findings is the transition of charge and discharge based on and why are the athletes supposed to take a week for recovery after three weeks of hard training? Or why is it especially after the training camp so important to get some time to rest?...more

The Normannator gets a fit, checks out Boulder

(19.12.2008)

On this past weekend, the NBC Ironman Hawaii broadcast featured Normann Stadler in a leading role - until a series of cramps on the run cut down the two-time champion from 1st place at the half marathon mark to an eventual 12th place finish. Thus for the second straight year, the man who signed a whopping great Dresdner Kleinwort contract after his second World Championship struggled through a disappointing finish at the only race that really counts.

A lesser man with normal insecurities might be feeling the heat. After all, Stadler signed on for fewer races, misfired for his German sponsors at Frankfurt, and is now 0-for2 at Kona. But a man of Stadler’s singular talents maintains his champion's confidence, sure that with a few centimeters adjustment to his bike fit and a couple of sessions in the lab to determine his sweat rate and mineral composition he was just a few ticks away from another dominating, even-year triumph...more