Navigating Client Questions
As a professional coach, you get asked a lot of questions. How many carbs should I eat before my race? What shoes are best for me? What supplement should I take to improve bone density? …
Leave Equipment-Based Marginal Gains To The Pros
There is a lot of talk about equipment-based ‘marginal gains’ in respect to increasing performance, especially cycling performance. While marginal gains do increase performance, you need to examine the first word, ‘marginal.’ By definition, marginal …
Are you really a ‘professional’ coach?
When discussing what makes up a qualified ‘professional’ coach, areas such as education, experience, coaching results and even coaching rates often come up. However, this list is lacking one critical area – professionalism. As a …
Do your knees angle in or out while cycling? This might be why!
Cycling is a unique sport that requires an individual to adapt to a bike with minimal equipment adjustments. As a result, most people that ride a bike do not have mechanically proper form. This lack …
The best cardio cross-training for running
Swimming Elliptical Water Jogging Indoor Cycling These are common forms of cross-training for running however in our opinion, only one truly stands out as the winner as the best cross training exercise – Indoor Cycling. …
Why You Should Not Try to Fix a Muscle Imbalance
The term ‘muscle imbalance’ is quite popular these days. Muscle imbalances are often noted to be a leading cause of pain and injury. But what exactly is a muscle imbalance? Not this… According to the …
Don’t forget skill and form drills
Boxers are famous for working on their skills – hitting the speed bag to work on hand speed/coordination and working on focus mitts to help develop speed, timing, accuracy, strategy and offensive/defensive skills… just to …
Why Don’t My Clients Work Hard?
As an endurance sports coach and personal trainer with over 20 years experience, I’ve worked with hundreds of individuals. During this time, I’ve worked with all types of clients including naturally gifted athletes to those …
Ditch the tri bike – Why you should be training on a Huffy!
While we can all agree that a tri bike is likely the right machine to race a triathlon on, how about during training? Rick Prince, the founder of UESCA and author of Enduranerd, submitted a …
Coaching is Exhausting!
As both a personal trainer and endurance sports coach, the absolute hours that I work in this capacity typically pale in comparison to that of my friends and former colleagues that work 8+ hours per …
Swimming: To Glide or Not To Glide?
Like most areas of endurance sports, swimming is not immune from multiple theories regarding proper form and technique. One area in particular is that of gliding. During the glide phase, there is no forward propulsion …
5 Reasons Endurance Athletes Should Strength Train During Their Peak Season
Should I strength train during my season? The short answer is, Yes! The long(er) answer is below. USE IT OR LOSE IT! I always find it a bit amusing to see pictures of pre-season professional …
