One of the most common question we receive as coaches:
When do I know I need a day off?
When is the best time to have a rest day?
Let us provide you with some strategies to help address these questions.
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Run Coaching
In my previous message I talked about recommitting to the process of achieving your goal everyday.
It's essential to know why your goal is important to your health and well being as that will help you recommit everyday and take the purposeful action needed to make it happen.
Today I'm going to introduce what I believe is a game changing mindset. Whether it is your health and/or performance if you adopt this you can make significant change and progress happen.
When it comes training for health and performance what you do consistently now sets you up your results in the future. Thinking in terms of weeks and months from a goal performance is a flawed model.
One of the biggest mistakes I see athletes (athletes refers to anyone who trains) make is doing what is most comfortable repeatedly year after year and expecting a different result.
Let me provide an alternative strategy.
Learning to acknowledge the things you are grateful for is important. Not only for keeping perspective but also for creating self awareness. The single most impactful tool I have found that has helped me feel gratitude and develop self awareness is learning to breathe with a purpose.
As we are 4 weeks away from QCM race weekend, some of the most frequently asked questions I receive as a coach are:
1. How far should I be able to run at this point?
2. Do I need to have completed the distance before race weekend?
Be Ready, Dailed In, Execute
In any situation where you are asking your mind and body to perform, you MUST prepare it to do so.
The shorter the race, the more time you need to warm up.
Watch the video below and let me explain why, show you how to manage your warm up, and be mentally prepared to race at your best.
In summary, here is a great warm up strategy:
1. Get to the race early - at least 90mins to allow for proper warm up time
2. Warm up structure (30-40mins) 1. Bike - 5-10 min easy then 3 x 60-90sec at race effort (get a little burn in the legs) with full recovery after each effort. This should be 15 to 20 mins tops. Run 5 min easy then 3 x 30-60 secs at race effort with full recovery between each effort -10-15 mins tops. Get ready for swim. Swim 3-5 mins easy swimming then 3 x 20 strokes hard 20 strokes easy (make sure you are blowing bubbles when head is in the water - no holding breath). Finish this warm up 5 mins before start. If you can't bike prior just extend the running warm up with some dynamic exercises (arm circles forward and back, out to the side and back in 10x each) before your swim.
If in only a running or cycling race just extend the easy riding/running portion of the warm up to ~20min before beginning race efforts.
3. While waiting for the start: Deep breathing (on each exhale) - Believe, You Can, You Will
From the start to the finish line:
Be your best in THIS moment. Then your end result will really matter.
Your Coach,
Patrick
P.S. I will be holding my 4th Triathlon Performance Series webinar in on Sunday, June 26th @ 7pm CST specifically on the topic of Training and Racing Recovery. The purpose of this webinar is simple, cut out the noise and give you a simple strategy to develop a training and racing recovery plan to optimize your health and performance. This webinar is done live and you can ask questions during the presentation to get the information you want. By registering for this 60 min webinar you will get access to all 4 webinars in the series (1. Race Preparation 2.Nutrition 3. Prioritizing Training, and 4. Recovery). Over 5 hours of education to help you perform your best! These are all recorded so you access to the webinars, summary handouts, and action steps forever.
Register now!
