Criteria for Setting SMART Goals
The goal belongs to the athlete—not the coach. It’s the coach’s job to help the athlete give shape to the final product.
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Defining the Athlete’s Goal, Some Hits and Misses
Goals are best evaluated in the rearview mirror. Joe Friel reflects on the goals of three endurance athletes, highlighting lessons learned.
Joe Friel Live Q&A: The Business of Coaching, Motivating Athletes, Training/Life Balance
Coaches ask their questions during this recording of a live Q&A with coach Joe Friel. This event covered many topics including the business of coaching, motivating athletes, helping athletes reach difficult goals, and how to help athletes balance life and training.
Onboarding New Athletes
Goal assessment and season planning are two details you must attend to in taking on a new athlete.
Lessons on Race Targeting, Goal Setting, and Mindset, with Olympians Svein Tuft and Erinne Zarsadias (nee Willock)
Is it better to focus on one big race a year, or have several targets? Is performance or process more important when it comes to goal setting? Two Olympians help us tackle these complex questions.
The Process of Goal Attainment
Coach Grant Holicky discusses the critical process by which goals are created, and also the method by which they are achieved.
An Exploration of “Social Training Tools”
We explore whether Strava and other new training apps can make you faster, and how to effectively fit them into a structured training plan.
The North Star: Setting Goals to Give You Direction, with Will Murray
Coach and author Will Murray joins Coach Ryan Kohler for a discussion of what makes a useful set of goals, how to develop them, the psychology of goals, and much more.
Q&A on Goal Setting, Cyclocross Training, Polarized Training as You Age, and Cross Training with Grant Holicky
Head Coach Ryan Kohler and Grant Holicky field questions on goal setting, cyclocross training, polarized training as you age, and cross training.
What 2020 Taught Us and the Exciting Places 2021 Will Take Us
What lessons did we learn from a challenging 2020? What event or adventure plans do we have in 2021? We dive in.
How to Set Training and Performance Goals
The offseason is the perfect time to assess our previous season, set goals and strategies for the coming season, and incorporate those into our training plans.
How to Map Out Your Season, with Toms Skujins, Kiel Reijnen, Joey Rosskopf, and Larry Warbasse
Trevor did several great interviews with four top pros—Toms Skujins, Kiel Reijnen, Joey Rosskopf, and Larry Warbasse—for an article he was writing several years ago, and now we want to share their full wisdom.
Bonus Q&A on Fasted Training, Goal Setting, and the Polarized Approach
We take on questions about training while fasted, goal–setting analysis, and have a discussion on the polarized training approach.