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! As you can see, the site is updated and better than ever – […]
If Training in All Intensities Deliver 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 target certain adaptations, such as increasing VO2max by improving cardiac output, by optimizing […]
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 and you’re far more likely to be injured. The Triangle of Health is […]
Monitor Training Progress: Practical Tools and Technology
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 know if they were actually learning what I was teaching? We need […]
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 how easy to train so that we don’t end […]
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 to optimize your endurance training time. Plus monitoring your HRV helps […]
Training Coach for Cyclists: 11 Reasons to Choose a Real Person Over Just Online Programs
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 use one of these programs, you will likely improve your performance, simply for the fact […]
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 training at a long, slow pace and just a small amount of training at a […]
