Monthly
Coaching
Before Jeff was a coach, he was a successful athlete. He has raced duathlons and ultramarathon around the world. He has finished first overall more than once, and he fell in love with all the discipline associated with being the best.
Jeff loves teaching. He is a USA Triathlon Level 2 coach and a Certified Personal Trainer certified by the American College of Sports Medicine. He brings his skills to bear as he helps you define and reach your goals. He takes you from contemplative stages to action and maintenance, with the ultimate goal of becoming self-sufficient. Â
How I do it: I conduct an intake meeting that typically lasts between 30 minutes and an hour. During this meeting, I hear about your health and athletic history, short-term goals, time restrictions, and commitment levels. I will also learn about the event or events that you are preparing for. We discuss a conditioning strategy, and you ask all the questions you want about philosophy, training methods, and anything else on your mind. We both then take what we have learned and independently decide if we can work together.
If both sides agree, I will send a contract for your signature, followed by your first payment, and we will proceed.
My commitments to you are simplistic
- I will create a basic account for you in trainingpeaks.com and share with you my contact information, telling you when you can contact me and hear from me.
- I will create training plans for you, up to two weeks at a time, and I will review and analyze your efforts as you upload your results via trainingpeaks.com. I will provide comments on individual workouts that justify my commentary, encouraging your successes and offering recommendations for course change as appropriate.
- We will schedule a monthly check-in call or meeting, during which I will discuss your successes and challenges with all aspects of training.
- I will help set some midterm goals for you as you prepare for your big event. For example, if your goal is a half-ironman, he will recommend some sprint and Olympic-distance triathlons between when you start and the big event. These test events help judge your progress most realistically.
Your commitments are also simplistic, but they also contain hard work.
- You will use the tools IÂ recommend and get into a habit of recording your efforts as soon as you can. Three days of training results, all reported at the same time, are difficult to use to make course changes.
- You will make time in your schedule to do the assigned workouts or notify me if you can’t do them. I don't need a detailed or drama-filled reason, but if it was too hard to schedule or you lacked the time to do so, I want to know.
- You will fight your feelings to minimize or cut short the workout by reminding yourself of the goals you set when we started. I will help you, but you must help yourself at least as much as I do.
- You will comply with the terms of the contract, understanding that your commitment has a 3-month minimum term. I can’t justify monthly coaching if your time investment is less than this.
Price: $75 intake fee plus $299 per month.
Contact Jeff to schedule your initial meeting. You'll be sent an agreement and invoice.