These posts discuss coaching endurance sports including running, triathlon, cycling and ultrarunning.
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.
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 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.
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