What is Coaching all about?
If reaching your potential is important, you must train with a plan. More importantly, you must follow a plan that is your plan. All athletes have unique strengths and weaknesses, abilities, and motivators. At Rush Performance Coaching in affiliation with Bayshore Swim, we design training and racing strategies for dedicated athletes. This comes in many forms and is tailored to you as an individual. This means assessing where you are today through scientific testing protocols, and identifying where you want to be in the future through goal setting. Lastly, we connect those two points with a customized training plan that changes dynamically to your fitness.
Why Use a Professional Coach
Why use a professional triathlon/endurance coach?
- Expertise: Professional coaches have extensive knowledge and experience in triathlon training. They understand the complexities of the sport, including swimming, cycling, and running, as well as transitions and race strategy.
- Personalized Training Plans: A coach can tailor training plans to your specific goals, fitness level, and schedule. They can identify your strengths and weaknesses and design workouts to address them, maximizing your potential for improvement. These are designed day to day and week to week. No general/basic templates. Customized to each athlete in real time.
- Accountability: Having a coach provides accountability, as you have someone to report to and who monitors your progress. This can help keep you motivated and committed to your training regimen.
- Feedback and Guidance: A coach can provide feedback on your technique, form, and performance, helping you make adjustments to improve efficiency and prevent injuries. They can also offer guidance on nutrition, hydration, recovery, and mental preparation.
- Goal Setting: Coaches can help you set realistic and achievable goals based on your abilities and aspirations. They can also develop a timeline and plan for reaching those goals, breaking them down into manageable steps.
- Race Preparation: A coach can assist with race preparation, including developing race-specific training plans, practicing transitions, and devising race strategies. They can also provide support and guidance on race day, helping you perform at your best.
- Injury Prevention: Coaches can help you avoid overtraining and injuries by designing balanced training programs and incorporating rest and recovery periods. They can also identify early signs of injury and provide guidance on proper rehabilitation.
- Motivation and Support: A coach can offer encouragement, motivation, and support throughout your training journey. They can help you stay focused, overcome obstacles, and maintain a positive mindset, especially during challenging times.
What do our Athletes have access to?
No other coach or coaching group can give you as much personal attention and face time or has access to all of the following resources:
On the Swim
- Double Lane Endless pool with mirrors, underwater cameras for Swim technique and undeater headsets for verbal feedback
- Swim Team run by your coach with Technique classes, testing, and custom training based off of results
- All aspects of swimming: technique, conditioning, starts, turns, pacing, nutrition, psychology and recovery.
On the Bike
- Virtual Reality Cycling studio and training center for testing and winter workouts
- Bring your coach to the bike shop to get you started with the right bike and equipment
- Power Based bike workouts designed by an expert straight from your daily training and racing data
- Discounts at Bike Shops
On the Run
- High Speed Camera for Run Analysis
- Ramp testing at our training facility
- Running technique clinics with guest experts
Other Benefits
- Work with the “coach to the coaches”; USAT Educator for Coaching Certification
- High level access to your coach through email, phone, and in person
- Network of affiliates from A.R.T rehabilitation experts and Sports Massage, nutritionist, and sports psychologists
- Race Season Planning
- Transition set up and practice
Types of Athletes
We train and coach athletes of all abilities from first timers to Olympic hopefuls. The majority of our clients have some triathlon experience, and many have been coached before. They have either decided they want to see what their potential really is or discovered that they need a more dynamic and customized training strategy from a professional coach. Our athletes are:
Triathletes
- Super Sprint Triathlon (200m/8k/3000m)
- Sprint Triathlon (750m/20k/5k)
- Olympic Triathlon (1.5k/40k/10k)
- ITU (draft-legal) Triathlon (1.5k/40k/10k)
- Half Ironman 70.3 (1.2m/56m/13.1m)
- Full Ironman (2.4m/112m/26.2m)
- UltraMan (6.2m/261.4m/52.4m over 3 stages)
Runners
- Indoor and Outdoor Track events (400, 800, 1500, Mile & 3000)
- 5K
- 10K - 15k
- Half and Full Marathon
- Ultra Running
- Cross Country Racing
Cyclists
- Bike Tour Preparation
- Criterium Racing
- Stage and Road Racing
- Time Trialing
- Gravel Cyclists
- Mountain Bike Racing
- CycloCross Racing
- Ultra-Events
Swimmers:
- Competitive youth
- Elite
- Masters Swimmers
- Distance Open water athletes
- Learn to swim adult and youth
- Phobic learn to swim adult
Other Coaching Experience:
- Duathlon
- Aquathlon
- Para-Athletes
Total Immersion Swimming Lessons
To see why I became a Total Immersion swim coach click on the article below:
Total Immersion Swimming Lessons