• For current runners, multi-sport athletes, or team-sport athletes, having a personal coach can teach you how to vary your training throughout the year, avoiding mental burnout and/or physically overtraining, and allowing you to peak for a goal race (or competition) at a specific point in the year.

• As an endurance athlete, if you are aiming to perform at your best for a goal-race (or two), your other races throughout the year will be factored into your program and used as part of your training. This will help foster a sense of how to use short-term goals to achieve long-term goals.

• For those athletes who must perform optimally for each contest (i.e., team-sport athletes, or athletes involved in a league), your program will be designed to reach a peak level of fitness for the first game and to remain in top condition throughout the season without overtraining or reaching a state of mental burnout. Agility and power workouts are also available.

  

These strength and conditioning programs are also intended for those just beginning an exercise routine and/or wanting to finish their first road race.

• Leading an active, healthy lifestyle is reason enough to lace up your running shoes a few times per week or adhere to a workout schedule at your local gym. However, with the additions of a formal running program and selective races to your schedule, you will then have solid reasons to adhere to an exercise regiment and a new-found motivation to reach a peak level of fitness.

• Being trained "as an athlete" will expose you to different methods of achieving fitness and help break humdrum "exercise routines" that may have proven unsuccessful in the past. In addition, once you begin to train for a specific goal-race the importance of proper dieting and nutrition will become evident and, more importantly, realistic.

• Most studies have concluded that exercising in order "to lose weight" and "to look good" are not very effective in motivating individuals to remain physically active. The rationale of being encouraged to race is that you will become fit simply as a byproduct of training as an athlete, without being distracted by wanting to improve your physical appearance.

                                               

 

                              (Opening run during the Long-Course Duathlon World Championships)