Coached, not programmed.
Coaching is mostly listening, then patience and a little craft.
I’ve coached elite and everyday athletes for twenty-four years. Athletes come to me because they’ve had programs handed to them and nobody in their corner. Coaching is mentorship. No real mentor, no real coach.
A few ways we might work together.
I take on a small number of people at a time. It’s better that way, for them, and for me.
1:1 Coaching
Full coaching for triathletes, beginner through professional. Daily plan, weekly calls, and all the conversations you’d expect over a season.
02 · ReviewLearn more →Athlete Review Session
A single, focused hour to look at where you are, where you want to go, and what’s quietly in the way.
03 · Beyond sportLearn more →Mental Performance
For athletes, coaches, and people outside sport. Pressure, attention, and fear.
World champions, Ironman winners, and people with a day job and a 5am alarm.
- Brad Kahlefeldt
- Tim Reed
- Tim Berkel
- Clayton Fettell
- Mitch Robbins
- James Corbett
- Jimmy Johnsen
- Peter Robinson
- Aaron Kiss
- Joey Lampe
- Ali Fitch
- Eric Lauricella
There is no trick. Training is simple, honest work, done over many years, with attention paid to what’s going on between the ears.
“The athletes who last aren’t the most talented. They’re the ones who learn to enjoy being uncomfortable, and to be kind to themselves about it.” Notebook, May
Things I’ve been thinking about.
A letter, every couple of weeks.
Slow writing on training, psychology, and the things I’m quietly working on. Five hundred or so kind people read it.