Twenty Coaching Lessons That Make Athletes Better

About this episode

Adam Pulford shares 20 coaching lessons learned over 24 years that can help athletes improve their performance and development.

After 24 years of coaching athletes, Adam Pulford has seen enough training plans, races, breakthroughs, failures, and comebacks to recognize which lessons continue to matter. In this episode, Adam steps away from the charts and physiology to share 20 observations from his coaching career: why fitness isn't performance, why recovery matters as much as workload, why perfect training doesn't exist, what winning and losing can teach us, and why long-term development requires more patience than mo...

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Guest: Adam Pulford

Topics covered

• coaching
• athlete development
• fitness
• performance
• recovery
• training plans

Keywords

• coaching lessons
• athletes
• fitness
• performance
• recovery
• training
• long-term development

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