• For current runners, triathletes, 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. 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.
• Being "competitive"
is a relative term, so there is no need to feel you must be an "elite" runner to enjoy the sport, or work with DC
Running Coach.
• Leading an active, healthy lifestyle is reason enough to lace up your running shoes or adhere to a workout
schedule at your 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.
