These posts discuss coaching endurance sports including running, triathlon, cycling and ultrarunning.
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.
Coaching para-athletes is a rewarding and challenging opportunity for endurance coaches. Before working with a para-athlete, there are four things to consider.
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 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 provides insights into how athletes process fuels to generate energy under varying levels of exercise intensity and duration.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to spot decoupling in an athlete’s training data, and evidence-backed strategies to train durability for trail ultrarunning.
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