Your Experience with Online Coaching (Tinman, Daniels' Group, etc.)

There are some weird answers in this thread. Anyways.. my advice is to "interview" coaches via email before signing up with one. Easy as that. I have found a few just from browsing online, or people who post on Instagram, etc. I emailed all of them, explain what I am looking for--a training plan, interaction, explanations as to why workouts are in certain places, etc. Some reply with detailed responses, others don't, and that's how you weed some people out.

Reading one book won't necessarily tell you the "why". Different coaches have different theories. So yes, you are right in wanting to know why and actually understand what you are doing out there. Some people just get a plan and do it, no questions asked. Others, like myself, want details as to the theory behind it, especially if you are looking to improve in certain areas. Anyways, email interviews are the best way.. or even phone calls.

Nate Jenkins with Lowell Running Co. is great at giving you all the information you need, for example. He will tell you exactly why you are doing everything.

these guys may be worth a look:

https://www.peaktraining.online/coaching

$95/mo gets you a plan plus what i assume is quite a bit of back and forth. addie, along with kara lubiniecki (who has moved on to a different career), was the backbone of the hudson online community for a while. they worked with hudson for several years (and both were low 2:30s marathoners, if i recall correctly). hudson incorporated lots of canova stuff, as well as more basic building blocks from daniels. i knew several guys in their 30s who were very pleased working with with addie and kara, and very pleased with the volume of communication and response times.

Rippling Hysteresis wrote:

Working Stiff wrote:

[quote]Rippling Hysteresis wrote:

- Previously Tinman coached runner Kyle Medina started an online coaching thing. He's probably just the right size to give you the type of individual attention you're looking for.

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Also, do you know where to find info on Medina's coaching? All I could find was his profile on Tinman Elite,.

I've been working with McMillan since the spring because I wanted a MUT-specific custom training plan, and they have a coach that specializes in that kind of plan. I only ordered the custom training plan, so the back-and-forth of a real coaching plan wasn't included, although there is "true coaching" where you check in / interact with the coach daily, etc. I kinda split the difference by becoming a member of the "run club" which is basically a message board where you can ask brief questions to McMillan and a few of the other coaches throughout your training. It's not one-on-one training, but it's worth the $10/month it costs when you also buy a training plan. It's not worth the $30/month on its own.

I did feel like the plan was completely custom for me. The coach actually called me on the phone when he was writing the plan, and asked a lot of pertinent questions. I also liked that there is a strength / running form module that you do in addition to running like 2-3x per week. I suffered with a lot of injuries in the past 4-5 years doing Daniels and Pfitz and my times kinda plateaued. I have not been injured since starting this plan in the spring, which has been AMAZING and I feel better than I have in a few years.

My one (very very minor) beef is that McMillan is a shill for Generation UCan products. I think the products are good, but there's a lot of posts from both McMillan and other "run club" runners on race nutrition, etc, that all involve the use of Generation UCan products.

Let’s crowdsource this &itch.

I’m a successful runner and coach following a Daniels approach. Let’s walk through what a training cycle for you might look like.

I’ll ask some questions, you’ll answer them, then I’ll devise some suggestions three weeks at a time. Others can comment on the approach. You do want you want. No charge. If you follow a different plan, I stop commenting and the person whose plan you follow takes the lead from there.

I invite JS into the process.

Game?

Rippling Hysteresis wrote:

Also, any advice on where to look for a good kinesiologist for running? Injury prevention is definitely important.

You could use ACSM’s Pro Finder or LinkedIn and find someone with the ACSM Exercise Physiologist certification near you. Not all of them will do personal training/coaching but you’re guaranteed that they have the right training and education because of their prerequisites for certification. Personal trainers are more of a mixed bag that requires more scrutiny to pick out a good one.