Goal Setting Archives

Criteria for Setting SMART Goals

The goal belongs to the athlete—not the coach. It’s the coach’s job to help the athlete give shape to the final product.

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Joe Friel

Defining the Athlete’s Goal, Some Hits and Misses

Goals are best evaluated in the rearview mirror. Joe Friel reflects on the goals of three endurance athletes, highlighting lessons learned.

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Joe Friel

Joe Friel Live Q&A: The Business of Coaching, Motivating Athletes, Training/Life Balance

Coaches ask their questions during this recording of a live Q&A with coach Joe Friel. This event covered many topics including the business of coaching, motivating athletes, helping athletes reach difficult goals, and how to help athletes balance life and training.

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Joe Friel and Rob Pickels

Onboarding New Athletes

Goal assessment and season planning are two details you must attend to in taking on a new athlete.

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Joe Friel

Lessons on Race Targeting, Goal Setting, and Mindset, with Olympians Svein Tuft and Erinne Zarsadias (nee Willock)

Is it better to focus on one big race a year, or have several targets? Is performance or process more important when it comes to goal setting? Two Olympians help us tackle these complex questions.

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Fast Talk Podcast Episode 175

The Process of Goal Attainment

Coach Grant Holicky discusses the critical process by which goals are created, and also the method by which they are achieved.

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Grant Holicky

An Exploration of “Social Training Tools”

We explore whether Strava and other new training apps can make you faster, and how to effectively fit them into a structured training plan.

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Trevor Connor

The North Star: Setting Goals to Give You Direction, with Will Murray

Coach and author Will Murray joins Coach Ryan Kohler for a discussion of what makes a useful set of goals, how to develop them, the psychology of goals, and much more.

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Ryan Kohler

Q&A on Goal Setting, Cyclocross Training, Polarized Training as You Age, and Cross Training with Grant Holicky

Head Coach Ryan Kohler and Grant Holicky field questions on goal setting, cyclocross training, polarized training as you age, and cross training.

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Grant Holicky and Ryan Kohler

What 2020 Taught Us and the Exciting Places 2021 Will Take Us

What lessons did we learn from a challenging 2020? What event or adventure plans do we have in 2021? We dive in.

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Fast Talk Podcast Episode 147

How to Set Training and Performance Goals

The offseason is the perfect time to assess our previous season, set goals and strategies for the coming season, and incorporate those into our training plans.

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Coaching Episode 140

How to Map Out Your Season, with Toms Skujins, Kiel Reijnen, Joey Rosskopf, and Larry Warbasse

Trevor did several great interviews with four top pros—Toms Skujins, Kiel Reijnen, Joey Rosskopf, and Larry Warbasse—for an article he was writing several years ago, and now we want to share their full wisdom.

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Fast Talk Podcast Episode 124

Bonus Q&A on Fasted Training, Goal Setting, and the Polarized Approach

We take on questions about training while fasted, goal–setting analysis, and have a discussion on the polarized training approach.

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Fast Talk Podcast Episode 94

Goal Setting

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Criteria for Setting SMART Goals

Defining the Athlete’s Goal, Some Hits and Misses

Joe Friel Live Q&A: The Business of Coaching, Motivating Athletes, Training/Life Balance

Onboarding New Athletes

Lessons on Race Targeting, Goal Setting, and Mindset, with Olympians Svein Tuft and Erinne Zarsadias (nee Willock)

The Process of Goal Attainment

An Exploration of “Social Training Tools”

The North Star: Setting Goals to Give You Direction, with Will Murray

Q&A on Goal Setting, Cyclocross Training, Polarized Training as You Age, and Cross Training with Grant Holicky

What 2020 Taught Us and the Exciting Places 2021 Will Take Us

How to Set Training and Performance Goals

How to Map Out Your Season, with Toms Skujins, Kiel Reijnen, Joey Rosskopf, and Larry Warbasse

Bonus Q&A on Fasted Training, Goal Setting, and the Polarized Approach