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Stacey Richardson’s Weekly Workout Tip:

 

I’d love to hire you as a coach!  Then I won’t have to think!  I can just swim, bike and run!”

WHAT???

Last week, a potential client said this to me in conversation and it seems to sum up what many athletes think about once they are in a coach-athlete relationship.   Other coaches I talk to routinely say that they  bump up against this, so perhaps it’s time to get this out in cyberspace once and for all:

WE WANT YOU TO THINK!!!

Any coach wants an athlete who cares, questions, trusts and even obsesses.   We are in the profession of coaching because we want to see athletes develop and we cannot do this with just your bodies!   Of course we simplify your life by writing you a custom program and manipulating the myriad training factors of intensity, volume, training time, recovery sequencing, strength, speed, agility, peaking, racing etc.  But ultimately, we want you to train mindfully and to grow.   You need to hear our voice inside your head when you swim, bike, run and repeat. And you need to let a coach’s wisdom into your thoughts and actions.   Only then can you fully apply it.

What has your coach done to change your mindset, thoughts, and insight about about your training?

Ask.

Listen.

Think.

Apply!

 

2012 your best season ever

stacey@tristacey.com

 

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