Constraint Based Coaching
Constraint Based Coaching I've been brainstorming about this idea for a while, and after listening to a recent podcast with Steve Magnus and David Epstein, it inspired this blog. If you want to listen to that podcast, it can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/76vjoiesP3hYdkmEMzwgrv?si=IkywYOzDTwmVtdJnQBfl9A Epstein, if you don't know him, wrote The Sports Gene and Range , and his latest book, Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better is about how to improve anything that you do. The core concept is straightforward: whatever is preventing you from performing at the next level is the thing that needs to be the center of your training. Your constraint is your bottleneck, and until you identify it accurately, everything else is just busy work. In sports like running, this is much easier to identify. For instance if you look at a runner who has a 5 minute mile and their best 400 meter sprint is 68 seconds, but they can hold 75 second laps fo...