Originally Posted by
DJH8098
This is awesome feedback from everyone! I'm curious if we can play the money is not an option game. If you have unlimited funds would you hire a coach or would you continue to use your current training method? Also I offer different clinics to my athletes, has anyone on here done a camp/clinic in the last year or so? If so what was something new you learned or another way of approaching a problem that we as athletes incounter?
As I posted in another thread, I used Hal Higdon's training plan for a 10K, won my age group. As I recall I went for the free option, website download.
The big disconnect for me is the one size fits all approach. The training plans are not age weighted, weight weighted, gender specific, fitness level tuned...you get the picture. If I am paying, my expectation is the coaching is tuned for my realities. So what's generally available is better than nothing, but a coaching program that incorporates your past and present would do a much better job of hitting realistic goals and providing an appropriate level of recovery time.
I have paid for coaches for my kids, and it's usually been technique/goals specific given their strengths and weaknesses. Frankly, I think the clinic approach is mostly worthless, more social event than coaching.