Overview:

Bricks Multisport is proud to present a very special opportunity for the Fall 2010. Stop dragging that extra weight around with this get real weight-loss program created for triathletes, by Ingrid Loos Miller, author of the Ironman Series book, Weight Management for Triathletes ©. This no nonsense clinic not only shows you what to do to lose the weigh eating the foods you like, it gets to the very heart of what it takes to gain mastery over food for the rest of your life. You won’t get bogged down with nutrition information because you will be too busy learning about the practical, day to day skills that keep you focused on what matters, feeling as powerful over food as you do with your training.

Course Logistics:

The clinic is being facilitated and instructed by our head coach and Bricks founder, Jess Manning (USAT Certified Coach). Jess brings his personal experiences and success stories of helping athletes of all abilities and ages to reach their weight and fitness goals.

The class includes the following:

• Weight Management for Triathletes© Book
• Course Materials and Handouts
• Take-Home & Assignments
• Body Composition Testing (optional)

7-Week Course Agenda

Week 1: Get started with knowing how much to eat, how to use your scale, minimum training requirements and how to start succeeding right away.

Week 2: Analyze what you eat and learn how to reduce calories by limiting, modifying and substituting the high calorie foods you enjoy. Learn about the limitations of “diet” and “healthy” foods. Understand the importance of motivation and how to create it by moving away from pain and boxing yourself into success.

Week 3: The importance of developing your power over food and how to do it. The importance of having and using social tools. How to troubleshoot when the scale isn’t moving. Using additional resources to provide what you need.

Week 4: Daily practice to keep you on track. Dealing with “bad” habits. More food power exercises. Understanding the many reasons you eat and reconnecting food with hunger.

Week 5: BMI and Body composition. What they are, how to get tested and what to do with the data. Limitations of body fat scales and handheld bioimpedence measures if you want accurate information. Also, evaluating your progress and acknowledging success aside from what the scale says.

Week 6: Setting specific weight goals and modifying them as needed. What maintenance looks like. Overcoming ambivalence about the effort to lose weight vs. the benefits.

Week 7: How to lose weight during the season and the off season. How calorie deprivation may affect you. How to modify the fueling guidelines so you stay in your calorie target. Troubleshooting if you are too hungry. How to maximize weight loss with training intensity. The recovery Feast. The Ironman Trap and how to avoid it.

About the Book and Program Author

Training isn’t enough to get you lean. Knowing what you are supposed to eat isn’t enough either. Ingrid knows what it takes. She is a USAT Certified Coach, Sport Nutrition Consultant and the author of Weight Management For Triathletes © (Meyer & Meyer 2010). But more important, she has been a lifelong athlete with a weight problem. Six years ago she finally realized that to look like the athlete she was, she had to focus on food and motivation more than training. She lost 45 pounds, kept it off and is now helping others do the same. She has been a Team Trainer for Weight Watchers ™ and now she coaches athletes that want to lose weight. Her writing has appeared in Triathlete Magazine, Tri-Club, Beginner Triathlete.com and USAT publications. Her other Ironman Series books include Ironplanner: Iron-Distance Organizer for Triathletes © ( Meyer & Meyer 2009) and Fearless Swimming © ( Spring 2011).

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The Summer Swimming Clinic at Lake Como is back for 2010. Don't miss your opportunity to practice and perfect your open water swimming, water transitioning, endurance and speed skills, and other techniques of perhaps the most intimidating of the three triathlon disciplines. Swimmers of all skill levels and abilities are welcome to participate.

This is a really fun time for everyone in your family and was a key highlight of the Bricks Multisport programs in 2009.