About three years ago, Mauna Apparel began its journey to create exceptional high-end performance triathlon apparel. We focused on sourcing top-quality fabrics and partnering with cutting-edge production facilities worldwide.

In this blog, we will explore the relationship between triathlon training and weight loss and provide valuable insights on how to maximize your training for optimal results.

Hitting a mental wall in your training schedule is a common experience. However, with the right strategies and mindset, you can overcome this hurdle and stay motivated.

Conquering an Ironman 70.3 distance triathlon is as much a matter of pacing as it is about sheer grit and time put in training. Let’s get into what pacing should look like.

What are the best Father’s Day gifts this year? Dad’s big day is right around the corner, and you’re still in time to get him the perfect gift this year.

Attending an early-season training camp can be one of the best investments you can make to set yourself up for having your best race season yet. After years of coaching, organizing and leading training camps, there are many benefits I’ve observed that make this worth taking into consideration.

What are the best Holiday gifts for triathletes this year? The 2022 holidays are right around the corner, and you might need some ideas for gifts to get to that triathlete in your life.

If you love the excitement of racing and all the preparation that comes with it, off season is likely the time of the year that you ask yourself, “now what”? Triathlon coach Rodrigo Tome has put together a list of recommendations to make the most out of this time.

After the long hours of training logged, the Ironman 70.3 World Championship race day should be the icing on the cake, but, as we all know, it’s a long day out there and anything can happen. If we learned anything from the 2021 WC, is that this year’s venue, St George, is full of surprises.

Triathlon is a complex sport when it comes to the gear needed to train and race. Mainly, because it involves three totally different sports. Read what our Coach, Rodrigo Tome recommends as the best gear to get started.

When it comes to triathlon training, we often hear terms such as Heart Rate, Power, RPE, HRV, VO2 consumption, and many others. Today I’m focusing on one of those frequently used terms, Lactate.

Have you ever gained weight when starting an exercise program or during a race build-up? This has to be one of the most frustrating situations. You’re training down the house, putting in endless miles, dealing with sore muscles, and still, the scale goes up. Spoiler alert! You probably haven’t gained 20lbs of muscle. (I’m guilty of telling myself it must be muscle gain).

Most of the time during training, the goal is to prepare our bodies for the upcoming race. This involves training plans, diets, fine-tuning our race day nutrition and hydration, etc. For this blog post, we will switch it up and cover the psychological side of training and preparation, and how becoming mentally tougher will ultimately improve our performances in triathlon.

In hindsight, 2020 hit me hard. I was in Panama visiting my family when COVID-19 hit, and the country went into complete lockdown. And when I say complete lockdown, I mean, I could not leave my parent’s apartment in over 4 months. No swimming, no running, not even contact with direct sunlight. The government in Panama allowed you to leave your house twice a day to buy food and that was it. I even thought about quitting the sport altogether because of how crazy the whole situation was. With things starting to look a bit better towards the end of the year, I regrouped and decided to give it another proper try. I started looking towards 2021.

Triathlon is a complex sport and there are many paths you can explore to improve your overall performance. You can optimize your physical condition by hiring a coach, and your equipment by purchasing new and better gear. You can also, gain valuable time polishing your transitions. The good news here is that learning to do fast transitions is free and with no energy cost. You will only need some time to practice.

In 2021, we had 20+ athletes and coaches qualifyied for the Ironman 70.3 World Championship! Quite an impressive number, being this year our Team’s first. We are thankful to have racing back on the calendar and to compete as a team on one of the sport’s biggest stages. The best amateur performance from our Team was achieved by our Coach, Chad Bykerk! To commemorate his performance, he put together the following race report. Check it out below!

Our team has had the luck of working with Amp Human for over a year, and although our coaches and athletes love the product, we were still curious enough to understand how it works from a scientific perspective. What sparked our curiosity? Recently, the Park City based company entered into a US Air Force research contract focused on human performance. So, if there is enough scientific evidence for the US Air Force to potentially use this for “optimizing human performance, wellness, and resilience”, then we want to know what it is.

You are way ahead of the average population, you train long hours, you consider yourself to be living an active lifestyle. You go to the gym, you are runner, a cyclist or a triathlete. You look at your wearable device and you are proud to burn thousands of calories. Why then are you not losing weight? Or even worse, why are you gaining weight?

Slowly but surely we are seeing a return in races, specially Ironman branded ones. It started in Europe, next was Australia, Asia and Mexico towards the end of September… Then this past weekend, US athletes finally had a taste of normality and hope thanks to Ironman 70.3 Arizona! We are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, are you?

Surprise, surprise. You are in the middle of the season and suddenly something starts to ache. As endurance athletes, we are no strangers to pain, so we ice it and decide to wait and see. Then after a few days it gets worse… Story of our lives, right?