Episode 21: Starting and Scaling Your Coaching Business with Guest Nick Hancock
12/16/24 • 73 min
In this episode of All Things Endurance, host Rick Prince chats with coach Nick Hancock, owner of Maximum Mileage Coaching in the UK. If you’re looking to start or scale your coaching business, consider this podcast a must listen! Coach Hancock doesn’t hold back about his challenges, his successes and his best pieces of advice for new coaches. He also discusses his personal challenges that led him to start running and coaching.
1. Tell us about yourself and how you got into coaching
2. What was it like balancing coaching as your side gig and your full-time job?
3. When you made the decision to go full-time into coaching, was it a leap of faith or was your coaching income enough that you didn’t have many worries?
4. How long did it take to go from side-gig to full-time with coaching?
5. What are some of the things that you do attract and retain athletes?
6. If someone is looking to go full-time into coaching like you did, what are some tips that you have for them?
7. What are some mistakes that you did with respect to going full-time?
8. How do you balance your own training, coaching and family obligations?
9. What do you enjoy the most and least about being a full-time coach?
10. You have a coach that works with you. What advice would you give to coaches that are considering bringing on another coach to work with them?
In this episode of All Things Endurance, host Rick Prince chats with coach Nick Hancock, owner of Maximum Mileage Coaching in the UK. If you’re looking to start or scale your coaching business, consider this podcast a must listen! Coach Hancock doesn’t hold back about his challenges, his successes and his best pieces of advice for new coaches. He also discusses his personal challenges that led him to start running and coaching.
1. Tell us about yourself and how you got into coaching
2. What was it like balancing coaching as your side gig and your full-time job?
3. When you made the decision to go full-time into coaching, was it a leap of faith or was your coaching income enough that you didn’t have many worries?
4. How long did it take to go from side-gig to full-time with coaching?
5. What are some of the things that you do attract and retain athletes?
6. If someone is looking to go full-time into coaching like you did, what are some tips that you have for them?
7. What are some mistakes that you did with respect to going full-time?
8. How do you balance your own training, coaching and family obligations?
9. What do you enjoy the most and least about being a full-time coach?
10. You have a coach that works with you. What advice would you give to coaches that are considering bringing on another coach to work with them?
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Episode 20: Interpreting Physiological Testing Data with Guest Mike Weiss
In this episode of All Things Endurance, host Rick Prince chats with environmental and exercise physiologist, Mike Weiss of Alta Health and Performance Solutions (www.altahps.com). Specifically, Mike discusses what the most popular physiological tests are, as well as how to interpret and apply the results.
About Mike Weiss
Mike Weiss is an environmental and exercise physiologist who owns his own practice – Alta Health and Performance Solutions in northern California. Mike is also an endurance athlete who focuses on ultrarunning.
Areas covered in this podcast:
1. What is your background and how did you get into physiological testing?
2. Physiological testing is becoming more popular, in part due to the interest in the ‘Norwegian Method.’ However, in your own summation, why is testing important?
3. Ideally, when and at what intervals should an athlete get tested throughout a year?
4. For endurance athletes, the two most popular main physiological tests are VO2 Max and lactate. Could you explain a bit about each test, why they are important and how they correlate to each other?
5. What are some limitations with respect to VO2 Max testing (i.e., muscular fatigue, etc...)?
6. If a person doesn’t have access to a lab, what are some field tests that they can perform to approximate lactate threshold and VO2 Max?
7. From the perspective of implementing training intensities, or for lack of a better word, training zones, could you explain how to apply the results of a VO2 Max and Lactate threshold test?
8. What can an individual expect to pay for a VO2 Max and Lactate Threshold test?
Are there any individuals where a VO2 max test would be contraindicated?
Next Episode
Episode 22: Is There a Toxic Dose of Exercise?
In this episode, host Rick Prince chats with respiratory and exercise physiologist, Dr. Nick Tiller. Rick and Nick discuss if there is a toxic dose of exercise and if so, what it is. Dr. Tiller has established himself as a well-known resource with respect to addressing health and exercise-related myths head on. In that vein, Dr. Tiller is the author of the book, ‘The Skeptic’s Guide to Sports Science.’
1. Tell us about yourself?
2. Endurance sports seem to be trending toward longer distances. Is this a good thing from a health perspective?
3. Let’s talk about it with respect to a bell curve, would you say that with respect to exercise volume, the health benefits of exercise more or less follow the normal distribution?
4. Training is typically viewed through the lens of increasing performance, however it’s rarely also viewed through the lens of health. Are these two things sometimes at odds with each other and why do you think that the health aspect is often not considered with respect to training?
5. Could you discuss some of the things that might be considered toxic with respect to too much cardiovascular exercise?
6. It’s been my experience that with a lot of endurance athletes, especially those that participate in ultra-distance events, they overprioritize volume over intensity. Have you also found this to be true?
7. Is what could be considered a toxic level of cardiovascular subjective and different for each person?
8. With respect to ultra-athletes, are there are guidelines that you recommend with respect to staying out of the ‘toxic’ zone?
When discussing ‘toxic’ levels of exercise, is it specific to a particular type (ie, cardiovascular, strength, etc...), or is it a culmination of all areas of training with respect to overall training load?
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