I am always looking for ways to improve my skills. Today I stumbled upon this great source via Active.com Your Guide to Top Running Form Have fun..

Garmin Connect – Activity Details for Run 9 and 4/1 – 9 minute warm-up, then 4 minutes jog, 1 minute walk for the remainder of your run.

Garmin Connect – Activity Details for Bike Total distance 12.16 miles. For every Mile I donated $1 to LiveStrong. I thought I would post a tweet and see if I could get other Twitters’ to donate, if you match me $1 for $1 tweet me @YMPlanner It’s for a Good Cause… Support LiveStrong day and donate.

Today was a Swim day: Warm-up: 50 easy swim freestyle Main set: swim 8 x 25’s freestyle -10 seconds rest between each Swim down: 50 swim down real easy I look forward to this Saturday I start my Adult Swim Classes. Cant wait!

Recently WEC followed my man Smooth Ben around for the Day in the Life. Check out Ben get his grub on with Reynaldo (great singer) and team and take a stroll around his training center the LAB (it’s where I first started training and met Ben).  Support Ben “when he faces Donald Cerrone on Oct. 10 live on Versus for the interim WEC lightweight title.

Garmin Connect – Activity Details for Bike Warm-up: 10 minute easy spin. Keep HR below 140. After 10 minutes, build effort and ride 140-155. The wind picked up the second half, I also miscalculated my lap distance, shorted myself a little under a mile.

Image via CrunchBase In a recent article on livestrong.com “Healthy Foods That You Thought Were Not Healthy” once more we learn that the taboo’s of the past are not so bad.  Similar to sugar for runners, we find that Butter, Chocolate and Carbohydrates are not all that bad. (full article)

Another Great Video from Active Dot Com

Today marks the start of week 3 training. 200 Yard Swim followed by 20 Min Run (9 and 3/1) Garmin Connect – Activity Details for Run I love the Garmin Forerunner 310XT!

Now that I have seriously started training for my first Triathlon (Sprint) I was wondering do I need to start Strength Train? I have not hit a weight room in over three years, in MMA we primarily focus on our core and work it into each session. As with MMA Triathletes focus on the core as well, I found a nice quick video via triathlon.competitor.com which show three easy exercise.