Latest articles about endurance coaching, AI, and training insights
Learn the 5 key signs of overtraining: mood changes, sleep disruption, performance decline, elevated RPE, and persistent fatigue. Discover how continuous monitoring prevents it.
Mental fatigue directly impacts physical performance. Learn how cognitive load affects endurance and how RPE tracking helps adapt training.
Explore the future of AI in sports coaching. AI won't replace coaches, but coaches who embrace AI will dominate the market.
TRIMP calculates training load based on heart rate and duration. It's useful but limited to cardiovascular stress. Learn how OpenAthlete's algorithm incorporates more factors.
Learn how to send workouts to your watch manually, then discover how OpenAthlete automates this process for seamless training execution.
Compare the top sports planning platforms. TrainingPeaks excels at data but is complex. Nolio focuses on community. OpenAthlete combines AI, RPE tracking, and injury prevention.
Young athletes often can't articulate when they're in pain or overtrained. RPE monitoring and data analysis help detect talent and prevent dropout.
Sports clubs struggle with lost plans, level disparities, and individual monitoring. Learn how digital platforms centralize training while maintaining individual attention.
Life happens. Meetings, travel, illness. Rigid training plans break when reality intervenes. AI-powered dynamic rescheduling adapts your plan instantly, keeping you on track.
Progressive overload is essential for improvement, but increasing too fast causes injury. Learn how AI manages mesocycles and microcycles to optimize progress safely.
Your Garmin or Apple Watch tracks metrics but can't interpret them. Learn why you need software to analyze patterns, provide context, and guide training decisions.
There's a difference between listening to your body and training randomly. Structured training with discipline beats "feeling-based" workouts every time.
Understanding why athletes quit is the first step to keeping them. See how transparency, progress visualization, and proactive communication reduce churn rates.
Communication is the foundation of successful coaching. See how contextualized feedback directly on training sessions beats scattered WhatsApp messages.
Learn how AI handles the repetitive planning tasks (80%) while coaches focus on strategy and relationships (20%). Scale from 20 to 50+ athletes without sacrificing quality.
Excel spreadsheets can't notify athletes, sync with watches, or analyze patterns. See how much time you're wasting copying and pasting cells when AI could do it automatically.
Mental fatigue affects performance in ways your watch can't measure. RPE bridges the gap between objective data and subjective reality, filling the void left by Strava and Garmin.
Most injuries happen when training load increases too quickly. ACWR analysis detects these spikes before they become problems. OpenAthlete alerts athletes before it's too late.
AI doesn't replace the coach—it processes data. See how AI instantly recalculates a week's plan after a missed session, unlike static PDF plans that become obsolete.
Your heart rate shows external load, but RPE reveals internal load. Stress, sleep, and mental fatigue impact performance in ways your watch can't measure.
Most training injuries are preventable with the right data and early intervention. Discover how modern technology is making injury prevention more accessible.
Open source software gives you control, transparency, and security. OpenAthlete is open source, meaning you can verify how your data is processed, self-host on your infrastructure, and contribute to improvements. Discover why this matters for athletes and coaches.
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing how we understand and optimize endurance training, providing insights that were previously impossible to detect.
Looking for a free alternative to TrainingPeaks? OpenAthlete offers AI-powered training planning, injury prevention, and advanced analytics—completely free. Compare with TrainingPeaks, TrainerRoad, Today's Plan, and more.
OpenAthlete combines cutting-edge AI technology with proven training methodologies to help coaches and athletes achieve better results while preventing injuries.