6 Endurance Coaches Share the Biggest Mistakes They Made When Starting Their Business and the Lessons Learned
Owning your own business as an endurance coach comes with great benefits, but mistakes are easy to make when first starting out. UESCA Coaching Mentors share the biggest mistakes they made and what they would have done differently.
The Confidence Gap: Help Your Athletes Build a Positive Mindset Ahead of a Goal Race
As coaches, we can help close the confidence gap for our athletes by reminding them of how far they’ve come in their training and equipping them with the mindset tools to handle whatever comes their way on race day.
Gut Training for Ultrarunners: What Coaches Need to Know
Gut training should solve an ultrarunner’s fueling problem, not create a carbohydrate-eating contest. Here’s how to optimize carbohydrate intake by gradually increasing fueling amounts and race-like training conditions as tolerance improves.
4 Things to Consider When Working with Para-Athletes as an Endurance Coach
Coaching para-athletes is a rewarding and challenging opportunity for endurance coaches. Before working with a para-athlete, there are four things to consider.
How to Create a Smooth and Effective Onboarding Process as an Endurance Coach
Your onboarding process is what initiates the success of your athletes and sets you apart from other coaches. A smooth onboarding process leads to clear expectations and prepared athletes.
The Repeated Bout Effect: A Key Mechanism for Durability
The repeated bout effect is all about preparation. Once you’ve trained your legs for the downhills, you’re likely to experience less soreness, less muscle damage and a smaller loss of function, especially in the later miles of a trail ultra.
Lactate Testing: A Key Pathway to Higher Performance
Lactate testing provides insights into how athletes process fuels to generate energy under varying levels of exercise intensity and duration.
3 Obstacles in the Path to a Fully Booked Online Running Coach Business (and How to Overcome Them)
Social media comparison, an undefined sales strategy and business-related information overload often get in our way of defining a marketing strategy and sticking to it. By overcoming these three barriers and taking consistent action to market our business, we set ourselves up for a fully booked coaching schedule.
Summer Training: Coach Your Athletes to Train Smarter, Not Harder
When the temps and humidity increase, there are plenty of things we can do as coaches to help our athletes take a flexible approach to their training and prioritize hydration, fueling and rest. Smart summer training leads to stronger and more resilient fall racing.
The Athlete-Centered Approach: Customizing a Training Plan Around Life, Goals and Physiology
Fitting every athlete into the same training system does a disservice to the athlete’s needs, goals and performance potential. By taking four areas into consideration, we can customize each training plan to the individual athlete.
Bone Mineral Density and Body Composition in Ultra-Endurance Running: Insights from Serial DEXA Assessments
This case study demonstrates that bone mineral density can remain stable across a competitive season, despite repeated exposure to extreme endurance stress.
Lactate Explained From a Physiological Perspective
Lactate is a naturally occurring metabolite in the metabolic conversion of glucose into energy. When energy demands increase, it’s matched by a corresponding rise in lactate production. But when levels appreciably accumulate, lactate becomes a performance limiter. Here’s what you need to know.
