Tag: adaptive training
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Load Management at the 2026 World Cup and What It Illustrates for Coaches
The best footballers on the planet are playing the most physically demanding World Cup ever staged. The recovery problem facing their sports science departments is the same one facing a coach with fifteen clients. Here’s what elite load management teaches everyday coaching.
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What Elite Coaches Do Differently (And Why Most Coaches Never Figure It Out)
What separates elite coaches from everyone else isn’t experience or talent — it’s systems. Four principles from peer-reviewed research that define world-class coaching practice.
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The Centaur, Not the Oracle: Why the Best AI Coach Still Needs a Human
Everyone’s racing to build the oracle: the autonomous AI that knows everything, that you just trust. In coaching, that’s the wrong bet. The information is split across the athlete, the coach, and the machine — and none can absorb the other two. The stronger architecture isn’t replacement. It’s the centaur: the machine calculates, the human…
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Why the Best Fitness Coaches Are Replacing Guesswork with Data — and What That Means for You
Every coach has seen it: two clients, same program, completely different results. The science has known why for decades. Data-driven AI coaching is finally the tool that lets you act on it.
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RPE: from a kiosk to Afitpilot
Three years ago I set up an RPE kiosk at a CrossFit box: an iPad on a stand near the exit, copied from the format you tap on the way out of an airport. After each WOD, athletes tapped a number from 1 to 10. This post covers what RPE is, what the kiosk actually…
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How Afitpilot Became Real — And Why I Still Don’t Have All the Answers
I didn’t start Afitpilot because I had a great idea in a coffee shop. I started it because everything else had fallen apart. In February 2024, I got laid off. I’d been giving that job everything — showing up two hours early, staying an hour late, making sure they knew I was committed. Nine months…
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When Is a Master Plan Finished? Lessons From a 12-Week Reset
My 12-week master plan didn’t end the way it was designed. Instead of peaking, reality forced a reset. In this post, I explore when a master plan is truly finished — by design, by purpose, or by reality — and how branching, resets, and exit criteria make training more adaptive.