How to Coach a New Athlete

Cody Stevenson is our education specialist here at Training Peaks, but he also coaches some people. He says that when you've been coaching for a while we kind of take some of these things for granted with newer athletes. Last year I took part in making a documentary called Project Y about why people do races like Dirty Kansas. And so I got to coach a five person team, all experienced cyclists at some level. One of them was a Cat 1 Road Racer and the other one ran a touring business. They all had very loose training plans usually complete each week. But since they were using peaks as their goal rides on specific days, I made it clear that they could work around their schedule however