Guiding You Through the Training Phases
A clear, structured framework that adapts as you do.
Your training moves through three purposeful phases, each building on the last:
- Planning Phase Establishing structure, direction, and intent based on your goals and current ability.
- Development Phase Progressively increasing training load and specificity to drive meaningful adaptation.
- Performance Phase Refining fitness, sharpening execution, and preparing you to perform at your best.
Across every phase, objective data is balanced with subjective feedback to ensure training remains aligned with your physiology, lifestyle, and confidence.
The Human Value Layer
Data informs decisions, but coaching adds the critical human layer:
- Intelligent adjustments shaped by experience and context
- Ongoing motivation, accountability, and reassurance
- Confident use of meaningful metrics such as FTP, TSB, FRC, pacing profiles, and more
- Integration of analytics with how you feel, think, and perform under pressure
Getting Started
Once you’re ready to begin, you’ll set up your TrainingPeaks account and connect with me as your coach. From that point, your coached journey begins.
The Step‑by‑Step Coaching Framework
1. Athlete Understanding
Before we start, I take time to understand you. Your goals, past, confidence, limits, and weekly schedule all shape how we work together. This sets the base for training that feels clear, useful, and fits you as an athlete.
2. Planning & Assessment
Next, I look at your data, pace, power, heart rate, training load, and changes over time, along with your feedback about how you feel and react to training. This two-sided view helps me find your strengths, limits, and the best chances for improvement. Then, I set the direction for your training and decide what we will focus on next.
3. Training Prescription
With a clear plan, I create a step-by-step program that fits your life and helps you reach your goal. Each session has a clear purpose and effort level. Using Training Impact Scores, I track how each workout improves your aerobic and anaerobic fitness, making sure the right systems are worked at the right time. Nothing is left to chance. Every session has a reason.
4. Testing & Reassessment
At key points, we test and check how your fitness is improving. These tests aren’t about hitting numbers, they show if the training is working. When we reassess, I update your zones, adjust the mix of aerobic and anaerobic work, and make sure the next phase is based on the latest information.
5. Monitoring & Feedback
Coaching continues after the plan is made. I watch your training all the time, including how you perform, your tiredness, recovery, and balance between easy and hard workouts. Your feedback is as important as the data. When changes are needed, we make them. When life gets busy, we adjust without losing progress. You are never left unsure and never training by yourself.
6. Race‑Specific Preparation
As your main race gets closer, training becomes more focused and purposeful. I adjust your sessions so the mix of aerobic and anaerobic work matches your event’s needs. We fine-tune pacing, fueling, terrain strategy, and how to deal with tough moments. By race day, you’ll know what to expect and how to react. You’ll start the race prepared, calm, and ready to do your best when it counts.
This process keeps training purposeful, adaptable, and focused on long‑term performance—not just short‑term numbers.