If you consider yourself someone who trains rather than someone who exercises, you have no doubt had a workout go sideways. Maybe you're sick, or your girlfriend dumped you, or your kid was up all night with the projectile vomits (true story), or your boss...
So you have yourself an indoor trainer and a target race or a fitness goal. Great! Now what? There are countless plans and programs available. There’s the complete DIY option. There’s the full coaching option. If you have a coach, then listen to your coach! Otherwise, the...
I spend too much time on social media. I tell myself – and my family – that I’m doing it for work. This is not entirely untrue. But I spend too much time on social media. I’m a professional coach – that is, I get paid...
I don’t like uncertainty. My career, my company, my brand are all dependent on the premise of certainty. Athletes who pay me money to coach or counsel them, trust that I have the tools to help them succeed – to take them from ‘A’ to ‘B’. From...
I’m at capacity for coached multisport athletes for 2019. It feels good to say that. That’s due in large part to the fact that I scaled that capacity from north of 30 in 2018 to just 20 this year. This was my double-down on quality...
I’m registered to race a 10k in four days, and I have a chest cold. I could be a case study for an immunologist. I’ve been too sick to race my last three races – Toronto Triathlon Festival in July, Chase the Coyote in September, and...
I fought the test and the test won. It always does. It’s supposed to. I had the opportunity to perform a full battery of on-bike performance testing at Toronto’s The Cycling Gym this morning. I fasted, I drank my americano, I fed the kids and took...
I won’t make you hold your breath: it isn’t. FTP is alive and well and still – in my opinion – a very worthwhile performance metric for cyclists of all stripes. Mostly what has changed is the addition of novel protocols for testing and fitness assessment...
To run fast, you must train to run fast. I do enjoy a good trivial statement. I started this article to pontificate on all the reasons why running a once-weekly, structured workout on a track is so very useful to runners of all levels. I got...
I'm sick for what feels like the fourteenth time this season. I blame my three year-old - the cutest disease vector I know. I blame this not-yet-spring climatic purgatory that seems to have no end. I blame my own impatience in getting back to hard...