NEW for 2017 at Trimarnicoach.com!!

We are so excited to finally announce that Trimarnicoach.com is updated for 2017!!

So what's new you ask?

1) Subscribe to our newsletter for effective tips (and recipes) to create healthy habits to achieve athletic excellence. Our newsletter will start mid January.

2) Our home page is easier to navigate.

                       

In addition to the tabs on the top of the website, you can use the home page to take you directly to the Trimarni service that will best fit your athletic needs.
(As a reminder, our camps are filling up quickly so if you are interested in attending our Greenville skills, endurance or advanced camp, be sure to sign up soon.)

3. We have one main NUTRITION SERVICES page with 7 new Trimarni nutrition services. Each service provides a detailed description of the service and a contact page if you need help deciding which service is best for you.

2017 Trimarni Nutrition services include:

-Baseline consult - If your everyday nutrition habits are keeping you from training consistently or achieving your health, body composition or performance goals, let's work together to maximize your athletic performance by improving your baseline nutrition.

-Performance nutrition - I will focus on adjusting your daily diet and nutrient timing strategies to enhance health and performance as you prepare for your upcoming event.

-Performance fueling - I will focus on adjusting your daily diet, nutrient timing and fueling/hydration strategies to enhance health and performance as you prepare for your upcoming event.

-Disordered eating - Are your thoughts and behaviors with food negatively affecting your training and/or health? While it's common for athletes to be hyper aware of what's consumed in the diet for performance benefits, an obsessive preoccupation with food and the body is not healthy. Athletes who receive proper guidance and correct messages on fueling and healthy eating can reach body composition goals, improve endurance, strength and speed and maintain excellent health without food rules, ritualistic eating and obsessive weighing.
-Ask an Expert - Got questions for me, Karel or both of us? Let's talk!

-Sweat testing - Stop the guessing on what sport nutrition product and how much sodium per hour you need to meet your individual needs. With sweat testing, you can bring confidence to your fueling and hydration strategies to help you maximize your training and feel more confident and prepared for race day.

-Blood work decoding - By decoding your lab work, we can address what changes need to be made in your diet and your training to help you regain your health or to take your training to that next level. Without a blood test, you are simply guessing your way through the grocery store shelves and supplement aisles, wasting time and money. Blood testing provides information on how you can eat better, fuel smarter and supplement wisely to improve energy levels, health and performance. 

3) Our training plans have been updated for 2017 to help you develop the necessary skills, stamina, endurance, strength and speed to feel confident and prepared for your upcoming Olympic distance, half ironman or ironman distance event. All of our training plans are race specific to help you achieve athletic excellence. We also have an updated Foundation/transition plan and our periodized strength training plan. 

4) You can sign up for our educational team which is an affordable monthly subscription service for the athlete who does not need/want one-on-one coaching but desire continuing education and supplementary information on all triathlon-related topics ranging from training, skill focus, motivation, mental strength, daily nutrition, sport nutrition, race day execution, traveling to a race, mobility, dealing with sickness and injury and so much more! 

5) You can check out our 2017 sponsors and affiliates page to learn more about the companies that support Trimarni, alongside the people/companies that we consult with on training and nutrition. 

6) Lastly, our media page is now an athlete resource page for all things nutrition and training. You can find all of my articles and quotes, categorized for easy browsing. This page will stay updated every time I write a new article or when I am quoted in a magazine/article. If  you come across an article that I am quoted in and it's not on the media page, please let me know (thank you!). 

I could not be more happy with how the website turned out and I hope that you find it easy to navigate so that you can select the Trimarni service that will best fit your needs.

We look forward to working with you in 2017 to help you create healthy habits to achieve athletic excellence. 

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I would like to give a HUGE thank you to Wlad who has helped me tremendously with the back-end work on the website. Wlad has been with us for over three years and has a special way of knowing how to take my vision and content and make it look perfect on the website. Thanks Wlad - I could not have done this all without you!

Also, I'd like to thank Joey (neighbor, friend and Registered Dietitian) for helping me with the new Trimarni nutrition services. Joey gave me great advice with my new nutrition services, helped me update all of my nutrition forms/questionnaires (now Google docs for easy online completion), for overlooking the nutrition services on the website to make sure our content was similar on each page and she was my sounding board over the past two months of non-stop work on the website/services. Thank you Joey!

A NEW look for TRIMARNI

I saw this floating around Facebook and I can't be the only one who would agree that the reality of life is nothing like we plan for it to be. 

It's without certain that every time we feel we are making progress to another "check point" there's an obstacle right around the corner.....of course, it comes when we least expect it. 

As much as I thrive off having a "plan", I can not control everything in my life and I am ok with that. With only two options - accept or get upset, I've learned to have the best possible positive attitude with every obstacle that comes in my way. Life requires me to be strong, creative and patient and I've learned to love those qualities that make me a better person. 

I always wanted to be my own boss and to have my own business. I never thought about the difficulty of "running" a business but I was driven by making a career out of my passions in life. 

Being a small business owner means working weekends, always having something to do and constantly thinking about what more you can do. Every day I am motivated and excited to change lifestyles.

As my family knows all too well, I have always enjoyed staying busy. I have always had a calendar that was packed. I need my Marni-time but it doesn't have to be a lot. I love being able to help others. I have never complained about only having 24 hours in a day for if there were more, I would fill those hours up too. I never sacrifice cooking, sleep and daily exercise/movement to "work" but then again, it's all about balance.

I went to a liberal arts college where I was forced to write, write and write some more - and I loved that. In high school and college, I loved any assignment that involved writing or speaking. Of course, back in the day, my hand got really tired from writing 10+ pages of rough drafts with a pencil.

I suppose my first day as a small business owner on January 1st, 2012 was 30 years in the making. 

Four years of undergraduate education studying exercise science and psychology, followed by 1.5 years of earning a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology made for 6.5 years of hard work to move me closer to my dream job. 

But that wasn't enough. I didn't want the education to only understand the physiology of the body during exercise but also, I wanted to learn about food and how it fuels the body but also reduces risk for disease and illness. 

And thus, a return to school for my RD credential which meant pushing back my dream for a few more years....and more and more money spent on education. 

Although "the plan" always looks easy at first when a dream is fresh and exciting, the truth is that in reality, it is never as easy as one may think it can be. But, despite all the challenges and low moments, you can never ever give up just because it is hard. 

When I created my business, I had a vision as to how I would put my education and passion to good use. As any business owner knows, it's great to have credentials to set yourself apart from others but you also have to have a philosophy as to how you will be consistent with your services, words and actions. 

My goal was to create a place (aka business), where athletes and fitness enthusiasts (not clients) would feel comfortable coming to on a daily basis (or as needed) for motivation, education and inspiration in the areas of coaching, nutrition, sport nutrition, health, fitness and life. A place where nothing was too extreme but everything was realistic and practical. 

I also wanted my athletes and fitness enthusiasts to trust me that I had their best interest at heart (ethically/morally, medically and with individual goals in mind) but to be able to communicate with me whenever they had concerns, questions or comments. And most of all, to know that I practice what I preach.

And thus - Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition was born. 

But as any athlete knows, it takes a team to raise an athlete. And as any business owner knows, if you don't know how to do something and it is not your specialty, you should hire someone who can do it right for you. 

Karel and I have been working hard on some new services and we have been so excited to offer them at Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition in 2014. But we knew we also needed a change.......a new look for our website. 

My friend and athlete Doris, who works for It Just Clicked, took it upon herself to put together a new template (and hosting site) for my website without us even asking. She felt like the time was right and we loved that!

Oh, I forgot to mention that it was Doris who created our TriMarni logo!!


                                           
What a thoughtful measure to take time out of her marathon training routine to re-design my original vision for how we want to educate, inspire and motivate others. 

Working with Doris on the new website was amazing - she is so creative, patient, helpful and open and she really has a great eye for detail. Plus, she has a great sense of what's important to us and our business (and of course, "our story" wouldn't be complete with a bio from Campy). 

Even though I updated the content (words) for the website after she created the template with the words from my previous website, she was able to tweak my words to make everything clear, clean and precise within her template for the site. Total teamwork!! 

This website required our attention almost every day for the past month and a half but in real life, you can never give up if you want something to happen. A little every day is how you make things happen for if you try to do too much at once, you will find yourself burnt out, exhausted and not appreciating the journey when the end result finally comes. 

It was tedious and required a lot of brain power but the new website is FINISHED and oh does it feel great!!!

We hope everyone enjoys the new look, yet same philosophy, of 

                         

Trimarnicoach.com