by admin | Oct 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
How do you select a cycling coach? Is it their experience, years in the sport, their level of competition reached on a global scale themself or their athletes? Their personality, approachability, success rate! What are the important aspects to you? Consider these as...
by admin | Mar 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
When I as a coach, select a program for an athlete, how is the choice made for the direction going through the season, based on the goal for the individual? Coaches are the original AI, except that it isn’t artificial, it is real! RI, real intelligence of the...
by admin | Apr 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
It occurred to me while thinking about the season and the training phase we are now in, as a LTR Learn to Race coach, that for many, they are racing to learn. Cycling is unique in the many different directions that we can take on 2 wheels, road racing for example!...
by admin | Jan 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Experienced, long time certified cycling coach Barb – ‘coach Be’ – has relocated to Vancouver Island. Coach continues with established mainland clients and is now welcoming V. Islanders to her performance coaching roster. With a history of...
by admin | Aug 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Metric; a system or standard of measurement Introducing the kJ measurement* def; A kilojoule is a unit of measure of energy; it’s the metric, up to date terminology used in science AND on sources of nutrition A calorie (aka kcal) is the measurement of potential energy...
by admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
What’s strong with me today is completing 30 days of the challenge to write here, daily about qualities and habits, bike experiences and cycling tips. I’ll be continuing with a coaches corner of sorts, that offers what you didn’t know, you...
by admin | Jan 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Risk is a personal thing, most of us have boundaries of what we would consider risky behaviour. Some people seek risk to give them the maximum thrill, exhilaration comes with the element of danger and bodily harm. I feel I am very much risk averse, yet some may...
by admin | Jan 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
A great requote from my favourite Brain Guy Terry Small “When working with people, assume good intentions. When listening to people, interpret their words in a generous way. You will occasionally get burned and mistreated by always assuming the best in others,...
by admin | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Going along with yesterday’s theme of ‘LetsTalk’, I was reminded today about how valuable the people in my life are and who they are for me. To get an idea of what it means to ask for help, I had to turn it around and think of how I feel when someone...
by admin | Jan 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Today is BellLets talk day; “an awareness campaign created by the Canadian telecommunications company, Bell Canada, in an effort to raise awareness and combat stigma surrounding mental illness in Canada. It is notably the single largest corporate commitment to...
