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.
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These posts discuss coaching endurance sports including running, triathlon, cycling and ultrarunning.
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.
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.
How to Train Durability for Trail Ultras
How to spot decoupling in an athlete’s training data, and evidence-backed strategies to train durability for trail ultrarunning.
Why Runners Fade in Trail Ultras
Why runners fade in trail ultras can be explained by an athlete’s durability, meaning their ability to maintain performance as fatigue accumulates. This article explores the concept of durability and why performance tests aren’t predictors of ultrarunning success.
