Meet The Coaches Summer 2021

06/04/21 • 19 min

CES prides itself on having a diverse coaching team, staffed with friendly approachable personalities. While they all share a passion for promoting a healthy lifestyle and helping people achieve their fitness goals, each member of our 2021 Summer coaching staff brings a set of unique experiences and skills. Combined, our coaches make for a cornucopia of running knowledge and an endless supply of insight.
In this episode you get a little taste of the talented and motivational CES coaching team. Throughout the course of your journey we encourage you to get to know as many of the coaches as you can.

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Failure, Success, and the Endurance Athlete

Whether it is during training or in races, as endurance athletes we are always challenging ourselves to achieve more. But what happens when we fail to meet our expectations? It’s been said that you can’t be brave without being vulnerable. You can’t achieve great things without failing.

On this episode Coach Michael and Coach Kristina, address the topic of Failure and Success. Coach Kristina, a licensed clinical psychologist, helps us to better understand failure and success, and how this understanding can positively influence our running pursuits, as well as how we can prevent it from hampering our progress.

Among the many things covered, Kristina and Michael discuss topics ranging from how to deal with disappointment, strategies for avoiding common mental traps, the power of gratitude, and setting yourself up for success.

Reference: Brene Brown

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