• 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.
