Coaching Chat · Roadman Cycling (Not Done Yet)

Coaching Chat

Morning everybody. I’ve noticed a few things come up over the last few days and I said that I may as well do a quick post about it.

Over the last two weeks we have been offering 1 on 1 calls with myself. Please message me and we will arrange a date and time. I will not be chasing people up on this if I don’t hear from you. I will send you a zoom link closer to the time.

Feedback. We are still working this out. What I have always done personally is I’d have a different approach with all of my athletes - some people need a kick up the arse, some people need their hand held, some people need encouragement, some people need complete space, some people need checks every so often and so on. There’s a massive variety in personalities and approaches needed based on the individual. Right now I really don’t know where the right approach is with a lot of you guys - this just takes time to develop and we will figure it out over the coming months and hopefully years. This certainly isn’t a quick process so please communicate something if you are unhappy with the way we are doing it for the time being. If I don’t hear from you then I assume that everything is 100% - I can’t live my life in fear worrying that somebody could be in grave danger or something if they miss a session every so often 😆 I still am learning about people’s uploading schedule too - some people bulk upload workouts so yeah everybody is different and I am still sussing that out.

I think it would be good if you could send me a weekly update on how training has been and if you are happy/unhappy about x y and z so we can adjust things for the following week. So over the weekend this could be a good thing to do. We can text over and back as needed or do a quick call if that’s easier to sort the situation.

A big issue I’m having is that most of the time people complete their workouts as planned and it’s all been okay - they may leave loads of comments in TrainingPeaks but because everything has gone fine there is nothing for me to remember and I basically forget that I ever looked at your training. It’s much easier to remember the negative comments. But please communicate any issues to me directly as I don’t have the IQ to remember every single comment that I see these days (I know IQ shouldn’t change but I feel like mine has fallen off a cliff since I crashed 😅). Hope that makes sense anyways.

The calls have been a massive help for me to get to know the person and what approach might be needed. It’s been good to put a face to a name and I get a good sense of how I should approach their training afterwards. So I do recommend sending me a message to arrange. We are aiming to do this once a month but if somebody has a complete change in circumstances or something major happens then we can of course jump on a call sooner and figure it out. I’m trying to keep the calls as direct as possible and skip the small talk - we can use the group calls for all that if that’s okay!

Also for the sprints they are always max out. If it says in the description that it’s a sprint then you produce the maximum power you can for the duration of that sprint. The power targets for sprints are never accurate as everybody has completely different sprint numbers and there’s a huge variation - when it comes to threshold and z2 and so on then the numbers will be set correctly. This is the same with all coaches to be honest.

Also feel free to join our strava club. Search for Not Done Yet. It’s actually really beneficial for me to follow you on strava as I get a sense of a few other things that I can’t see from TrainingPeaks - it’s a really useful tool for me to be honest.

I think that’s all for now!

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