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Improving Your Bodies Physical Response to Training By Getting Your Brain on Board

Going all in with anything you are doing doesn’t always mean jumping in head first with everything you’ve got physically but rather it means jumping in with everything you got from a whole body, mind, and soul standpoint.
What needs to happen first is that you as the athlete ask yourself what is my mindset going into each of the sessions and if it isn’t totally on board how can I shift that. In this video I go into more detail about how getting your mind on board is the number one key to going all in with your training!!

Fueling the Bike Leg of a Triathlon Using Infinit Nutrition

How you fuel on the bike portion of the bike can make or break the run portion of your race. Long course triathlon is a long day and it requires calories and hydration in order to get it right. One of the key pieces about fueling is to ensure that you consume both calories and water.

Kayla BowkerOctober 30, 2020whereyourfeettakeyou, #whereyourfeet, triathlon, triathlon training, nutrition, triathlon blog

Arizona 70.3 Race Recap

There is something about pushing yourself to the absolute limit that just brings everything back to perspective. It has been about a week since I toed the line for the first official time since CdA 70.3 in 2019 at Ironman Arizona 70.3. This was my first time participating at this race and it was SOOO much fun!!!! I think really what it came down to was just enjoying the fact that I was racing again and racing to my potential and I am so thankful for the chance to have gotten to race!!!

Kayla BowkerOctober 28, 2020whereyourfeettakeyou, #whereyourfeet, triathlon, triathlete, triathlon blog, swimbikerun

Mindset Shift on Racing and Training in 2020

It is hard to not get down in the dumps when you have worked so hard yet continually see something slip out of your fingers, or at least have it feel like it is. I think it’s safe to say we all miss the feeling of racing; we miss the nervous energy, the excitement, the camaraderie, the joy, the pain, and the feeling of accomplishment that we just did something awesome. See how making a mindset shift made all the difference in the world when it came to racing and training in 2020.

Creating a Road Map from Your Goals

Goal setting is a powerful process that helps guide you along whatever journey it is that you want to go on. However, often what happens is we stop at creating the goal. We come up with the goal, the dream, the “thing”, etc that we want to strive and reach for yet we don’t come up with the path to get to it. I put together a video explaining and providing an example of how to create a goal road map in which you work backwards from your big scary goal all the way down to the little action items that you can use to help guide you on a daily basis towards working towards your goals.

Full Body Mini Band Workout with Coach Kayla

Mini bands are great because they place constant tension on your muscles, this keeps them engaged for both the lengthening and contracting phase of the exercise and on top of all of this they are crazy versatile. To give you a fun little workout I put together a short full body mini band workout that starts with the lower body and moves up to the upper body.

6 Focus Points for Long Course Triathlon

Are you new to triathlon and feel ready to try your hand at a 70.3 or even a 140.6? Or maybe you’ve been doing them for a while but just can’t seem to crack it? There are a lot of reasons behind that, so many in fact that you really could go on and on, however I compiled a few of my favorite focal points to help guide you to getting started.

Learning From Failure

Failure really is a terrible word. Here is the thing, failure is important. We need to fail, to mess up, to have things not go the way we planned or wanted because we learn the most during those times. To rise above failure takes a lot of strength because in order for failure to be beneficial you have to do one of two things 1) you can’t wallow in it and 2) you can’t dismiss it. If you dismiss your failure as “oh these things happen” well then you aren’t going to learn anything and if you wallow in it then well the same thing happens, you just spiral deeper into a bad trend.

Kayla BowkerJanuary 14, 2020whereyourfeettakeyou, #whereyourfeet, triathlon, triathlete, mindset, mindfulness, triathlon blog

Power of Positive Affirmations

Positive affirmations are so simple and yet they are so powerful. Simply enough affirmation are statements that help us to change our subconscious brain to believe in ourselves. Often it is that subconscious brain that tells us the negative pieces in ourselves and that is what needs change. They help us to create intention and focus on ourselves, our goals, and the tasks we have throughout each day.

Making Indoor Training More Fun

Constantly riding on the trainer and running on the treadmill can get very boring, long, and mentally hard to motivate for on a regular basis. Here are some tips to helping to making indoor training more fun and easier to motivate for so that you can be ready when the sun comes back out to feel strong and confident!