Julia Aimers (BA Rec Admin, Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist, High Performance Specialist) is a Certified NCCP Triathlon Coach and Level 2 Technical Road Cycling Coach, Level 2 USA Cycling Coach and Accredited Training Peaks Coach. She has completed her NCCP Swim Coaching course. She is an Ottawa, Ontario based professional triathlon coach who uses the Total Immersion ™ approach to swimming. Julia earned the highest designation in fitness assessment, strength training and personal fitness coaching in 1990 as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist with the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. She has performed hundreds of blood lactate tests and V02 max tests on athletes over the years. Julia’s many years of sport also encouraged her to realize that Yoga is an important part of the mix so she did her 200 hr Yoga Alliance Teacher Training and specializes in teaching Yoga for athletes.
Julia uses Training Peaks coaching software to create structured and customized programs which have trained her athletes to achieve their personal bests. Many of her athletes have qualified for Kona and Boston! Being stagnant is certainly not in Julia's vocabulary! You will constantly see her zooming off to get updated at exercise physiology conferences, swimming, cycling and running courses, nutrition for athletes and Training Peaks endurance coaching summits. Being a scientist, Julia is always curious about the latest research in the field and reporting back her findings to her athletes.
Julia was the former Athletics Director at the Ottawa Athletic Club for nine years and then launched on her own to start Team Triumph in 1995. As a Gold medalist in the 1979 Pan-American Games in badminton, Julia has always understood the importance of striving to achieve your personal best.
Since 1995, her company has provided a one hundred member plus strong triathlon club, corporate fitness contracts to local Ottawa companies, personal triathlon coaching and personal training. Julia is currently competitive in triathlons and bike time trials. In 2016 Julia receives an Honourable Mention as Triathlon Ontario's Coach of the Year. Also in 2016 she was awarded the Dave Maskell BUILDER'S AWARD - in recognition of outstanding service to the national capital region's endurance community.
After Julia's dear friend and swim coach mentor, Mike Collingwood passed away in December 2006, in memory of Mike, Julia along with Marc Roy of Sportstats became the volunteer race directors for the Mike Collingwood Meech Lake Triathlon. Please consider racing or supporting this local triathlon for the Ottawa Heart Institute.
As an Accredited Training Peaks Coach, Julia uses Training Peaks coaching software to create structured and customized programs which have trained her athletes to achieve their personal bests. Some of her athletes have even qualified for Kona and Boston!
Julia is incredible, I once had a coach who told me to get good at biking and running as he couldn't do anything with my swim technique. Then I was introduced to Julia who is so patient and has an amazing ability to translate it all into a way I could understand. I knocked a minute per 100m off my open water swim times after only a handful of sessions with her. The team is also really welcoming, inclusive and most of all FUN!
Triumph is a warm and fun place for every level of triathlete. Whether you’re just getting started and learning all about triathlon or have been at it for decades, like some of us, you will find camaraderie and expertise in this group with Julia Aimers’ support and caring. She keeps up-to-date in so many areas of training, especially for women and including women’s issues whether it be nutrition or menopause. I highly recommend Team Triumph for swimming, biking, running or putting it all together in one package. There is no other place or group, I would rather be training with. So many of my close friends were met in this group.
A huge thank you to my Triathlon coach, Julia Cooper-Aimers. She took the time last week to drop off (from a distance because of COVID19 restrictions) some tri shorts I ordered along with a well-appreciated note to remind me that there will be ups and downs and that things will get better. She has gone above and beyond to support all of her athletes and our Team Triumph club, by providing almost daily strength, yoga, and spinning videos that have been uploaded to Youtube for anyone who needs a little motivation during these challenging times as well as many words of encouragement. I am grateful for her support and encouragement. ❤️
Anita Lacelle Taylor
Training with Team Triumph for 7 months (so far) made me faster and stronger while building nourishing connections with like-minded fitness nuts and shattering the expectations I had of myself. TT is a crew of inspiring people pursuing epic individual goals and encouraging each other along the way. Julia and her team have expert knowledge and provide a thoughtful evidence-based group program that works. I am privileged and thankful to have Team Triumph in my neighborhood and can't wait to get back to the pool!
Alex Bourne
I want to thank you for always putting our well-being at the forefront of your business model. You suspended face-to-face programs in a timely manner, leading the way in a fitness business world that took much too long to respond and put their members’ health and the community at risk. You « triumphed « in quickly acting to flatten the curve.
Your caring nature resulted in a series of innovative and fun virtual sessions and opened them to the community. I am missing the live interaction now that I am working for a few months but I appreciate that I can access the videos according to my schedule. Yin/yang session tonight, just what I needed.
Not to mention the check-ins, the home deliveries, the charitable events. Priceless.
Simone Rose-Oliver