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For those who are USA Triathlon members, check out our article DIY Triathlon in the latest edition of the USA Triathlon Magazine (July 2015).
The article hit's on some key points that can help your triathlon performance today!
Feel free to let us know any questions!
Have a great weekend!
Will & Jason
The impact of positively accepting program drift, training to the “spirit” of a workout, and training to tell the tale…
Read MoreWe have been real busy doing some fun projects, and coaching some awesome athletes. Here we are sharing the slide deck's from our seminar at Tri-Mania Boston and from Will's USA Cycling coach ed webinar.
Read MoreNext weekends Tri-Mania Boston is always a super event (March 28). Come on out! We are presenting on self monitoring. What's that you ask? Well, ever wonder how to make the best decisions when it comes to adjusting your training? Ever ask yourself: "Am I tired or not?" We will provide a clear description of the value of monitoring, how to do it in a way that works for YOU, and how it can provide you with incredibly satisfying sense of autonomy and competence in your athletic abilities.
Click Here is the seminar flyer for more info!
We will review key variables you can easily monitor like resting HR, HRV, exercise heart rate and more. But, more important, we are going to show you how to use that info to make great decisions regarding your training.
Coach Will will also be working with the great folks from Fit Werx who are doing a seminar on the latest technology in cycling. Will will help bring the coaching/training point of view to their seminar during the discussion of Power Meters.
When not presenting, we will be at our booth on the expo floor all day - come on out and say hi!
Will & Jason
Today’s post is a bit of a stream of consciousness ramble. It’s fairly abstract. It’s just a concept that’s really important to me as a coach (to both of us, Will just happens to be writing this post). Because wellbeing and performance are not separate, and are not merely the precipitate of a hundred decisions… They are much more, and much more valuable than that!
So with that said, when you think of your training, or your life overall, what do you see?
Often, people are drawn into specifics. Drawn into seeing amazing data, concepts, or aspects of what we do and who we are. What’s our resting pulse, our blood pressure, our vision, our mood status, our financial status, our marital status… This seems to be something we all do. It’s nice. It feels like it helps each of us gain comfort, and feel better knowing that we “control” X area.
What do you see in the image below?
Lots of dots right? True. I’ve zoomed in on my white board to take this picture. I’ve done what is so easy to do when thinking about health, athletic performance or athlete development. I’ve taken a snap shot of a moment, or of some interesting material, but I’m not providing a context or relevance. I’m just focusing on a few things.
So again, what do you see here?
Yep… Still lots of dots. This could be a specific diet strategy, or a test, or a training strategy… Maybe it’s a representation of how you sleep or rest each day, or could it represent your check book ledger or 401K balance?
Ok, here is the same picture zoomed out.
It’s a person! A whole person! Yes, the way this started, you’re “forced” to see the parts. Your forced into seeing the minutia and focusing on it – not what might be there… if you could see or choose to see a bigger image.
Seeing the whole is huge, it’s way too often missed in today’s age of biohacking. Look, I’m all for monitoring a variety of physical and psychological variables, and I love to get into reviewing HRV and resting heart rate data relative to an athlete’s psychological and emotional well-being and physical performance. I love to apply solid metrics as a way to better understand an athlete’s response, and their ability improve.
I’m just amazed at how often the concept of physiological, psychological and spiritual integration is viewed as soft and left behind once we start zooming in on metrics. Metrics are great, but they just represent little parts of YOU. They provide clues, but YOU are still the key. You as a whole, integrated, amazing YOU!
We are comprised of billions of cells – of dot’s if I go back to the pic’s above. And those cells work in an amazingly complex and integrated fashion. Developing our self as a person who is well and who is an athlete is about fostering that integration of cells. It’s about helping all of your cells positively move in the direction you are dreaming of going.
Pay attention to your parts, the cells or the dot’s if you will… they can and do provide some interesting information that can be valuable, but always remember, those cells create a whole… and it’s the whole you have to think about first!
We wanted to provide a quick seminar update today.
The seminar Will was going to do at Central Mass PT tonight with Mike Roberts PT has been moved to April 5th due to an unexpected conflict. This will be a fun, free evening looking at in season strength training and the science and practice of awesome pacing!
Will is presenting on training with a power meter at the Tri-Fury spring clinic on March 22. Please contact Paul pds27@comcast.net for details on this event – which will include other excellent speakers on sports chiropractic, massage and running mechanics.
Tri-Mania kicks off your 2015 season right. It's an awesome day including an amazing expo, great seminars and clinics.
On March 28 We are very excited to be opening up Tri-Mania (http://tri-mania.com/boston/seminars/) at 9AM discussing how to adjust your training based on smart-self monitoring. This seminar will introduce the key quantitative and qualitative variables you need to monitor, and how those variables can be used to adjust training. This will include real world examples of monitoring led training adjustments that lead to solid age group performances including an age group world championship (xterra).
Also at Tri-Mania, Will will be presenting with our friends at Fit Werx. Fit Werx is performing a seminar titled “A Tri-Bike Gear Showcase” which will cover several hot topics in triathlon bike technology. Will will add the coaches view of the importance of using power during training, and will broadly review two power meter systems to fit any budget, and get you training with power today!
Lastly, but not least, our friends at EnduroPack’s http://www.enduropacks.com/products/enduropacks have offered up some great product (a month supply of their full daily system of vitamins and minerals, a $75 value!) for us to share at our coming seminars. So, if you attend… and you answer the pop quiz question/s correctly, you may walk home with a fantastic supplement system in addition to knowledge that will help you train better this year!
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