endurance
Three Ways to Ride Faster for Longer to Maximize Your Gravel Racing Performance
Three Ways to Ride Faster for Longer to Maximize Your Gravel Racing Performance In gravel racing, generally the longer you can maintain riding close to your functional threshold power (FTP) , the faster you’ll be over the course. So at a certain point in your training, you stop trying to increase your functional threshold power…
Read MoreCelebrate the New Site and Logo By Making Me Do Pushups or Intervals!
Celebrate the New Site and Logo By Making Me Do Pushups or Intervals! Celebrate the new Simple Endurance Coaching website and logo with me! Share the new website on your Facebook or Instagram page with the hashtags #simpleendurancecoaching and either #pushups or #intervals, and I’ll do a pushup or interval for you live next week!…
Read MoreIf Training in All Intensities Deliver Solid Results, What Training Should You Do?
If Training in All Intensities Delivers Solid Results, What Training Should You Do? Training in higher-intensity zones usually brings about more positive adaptations. Yet if you do too much intensity, you’ll stagnate and/or burn out. So we learn two things from this: One, we need a balance of intensity and endurance, and two, we can…
Read MoreHow to Use the Triangle of Health to Improve Superior Durability and Performance
How to Use the Triangle of Health to Improve Superior Durability and Performance As an age-group runner or masters’ cyclist, the Triangle of Health can build our durability and help us accomplish our best performances. If all you do is run, and all you do is ride your bike, you’re not reaching your performance potential…
Read MoreNew and Old Technology Provides Practical Tools to Monitor Your Training Progress
New and Old Technology Provides Practical Tools to Monitor Your Training Progress What is the best way to track training progress to know if your training is actually working? When I was a middle school teacher, it was always critical for me to keep track of data, measure my students’ progress. How else would I…
Read MoreAchieve More Endurance Training Success Using Your Unique Thresholds
Achieve More Endurance Training Success Using Your Unique Thresholds As regular everyday cyclists and runners, we need to maximize our training time. That means we need to understand how to structure our training to get the most adaptation out of the least amount of training. To do that, we need to know how hard and…
Read MoreYou can optimize endurance training time by monitoring heart-rate variability daily
You can optimize endurance training time by monitoring heart-rate variability daily Do you want to take your endurance performance to the next level? Then it’s time for you to discover the power of personalized training through HRV-based programs. By tracking and analyzing your heart rate variability, you can tailor workouts, recovery periods, and nutrition plans…
Read More11 Reasons You Want a Real Person as Your Coach Instead of an Online Program
11 Reasons You Want a Real Person as Your Coach Instead of an Online Program Popular online training programs can be incomplete With the proliferation of online training programs, especially ones guided by AI (artificial intelligence), you have so many choices when you’re looking at completing some audacious challenge goal or adventure. Honestly, if you…
Read MorePolarized or Pyramidal or a Blend? Your Unique Training Model is Key to Endurance Success
Polarized or Pyramidal or a Blend? Your Unique Training Model is Key to Endurance Success By now, you’ve likely heard the debate about the best model for training between advocates of polarized training model and pyramidal training model. Essentially, the polarized group says that endurance athletes like runners or cyclists should do most of their…
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