Tag: training load
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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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The 12-Week Athlete: What Happens When You Let Data Override the Plan
The athletes who improve most over 12 weeks aren’t the ones who follow the plan most faithfully — they’re the ones whose coaches adjust when the data says to. Here’s what the research shows.
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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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Afitpilot 2.0
The coach build of Afitpilot ships soon. Two-stage plan generation with the reasoning exposed, a 3,000+ exercise library with full enrichment metadata, sRPE and Hooper-Mackinnon readiness fed directly into the next regeneration, and a flat €89/month price that isn’t tied to your coaching revenue.
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Gunnar Borg
Gunnar Borg built the instrument exercise science uses to ask people how hard they are working. A history from the 6–20 scale in 1962 to the CR10 in 1982 to Foster’s session RPE in 2001, plus notes on how RPE sits inside Afitpilot — and why the acute:chronic workload ratio is shown but deliberately not…
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Daily readiness
Daily readiness — asking an athlete how they feel before training — is one of the cheapest pieces of monitoring infrastructure in elite sport. According to thirty years of evidence, also one of the most informative. A history from Hooper’s 1995 swimmers to the 2016 review that surprised the field, plus notes on how readiness…