Insights on performance, training, and human factors

I’m currently coaching an athlete to sharpen his 5k time before we move to a Tough Mudder focus from Spring. It’s early days, even though we’ve been training together since November, but the ‘serious’ coaching has started since being back at work in the New Year.   When we started off, I was prescribing his workouts on a spreadsheet. It was the same way his last coach did it, and it’s a free, uncomplicated way to tabulate his training plan. It had his paces, distances and an

In safety critical work, fatigue is a hot topic of discussion. Risk management often identifies it as a threat to safety and leaders are beginning to understand (and appreciate) that actively managing peoples’ rest is key. The same applies to performance. Athletes train regularly, subjecting their body to increased physical loads, with the aim of improving their performance. This improvement comes from the body’s ability to rebuild stronger, and where does that rebuild occur?