Here's a look at what's inside the Collective right now, and what we're covering over the next 9 weeks. Every Tuesday at 9 AM ET is a live education call, and Thursdays are office hours. Every call is recorded. Coming up: - Nov 3: The Interference Effect Is Overrated - Assessment series, Nov 10 to Dec 1: Consults & Onboarding, In-Gym Testing, From Testing to Training Decisions, Priorities to Template - Mixed Modal Intervals series, Dec 8 to 29: The Interval System, Neuromuscular & Sprint Intervals, Intensive Intervals, Extensive Intervals Already in there: - 13 weekly templates from real athletes (off-season strength, HYROX, elite competitive, hypertrophy) - 16 progressions, all test, build, retest (Miko's Triangle, Acid Bath, HSPU VBT, Bike-erg FTP, Echo Structured Variance, and a squat workbook with 4 progressions) - 80+ hours of recorded mentorship calls, plus a 20-hour call library - tools like the rep speed table: average rep speeds, common set sizes and comp volumes for CrossFit movements $149/month or $1,399/year, cancel anytime: kyleruthcoaching.com/collective Which of these would help you most with the athletes you're coaching right now?

"You don't rise to the occasion, you fall to the level of your preparation." Most of what happens on competition day is decided before you get to the venue. Ryne and I spent this episode on the competition weekend itself: plan every part of the day, stay in your lane in the warm-up area, watch the early heats and be ready to change the plan, and get back to baseline between events. The rest of it: - why there is no such thing as a breakthrough performance - the one thing almost nobody practices in training that they expect to show up on game day - the checklist I carry into every warm-up area - why the athlete who was leading the Legends chipper after the box jump-overs never won it - the warm-up mistake Ryne saw all weekend at Desert City Classic - what I do with caffeine on competition day, and why - the hotel, the travel day, and the one-percenters for athletes who have the basics dialed Full episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/55CZ3zVTnZywgITMXpgoj9 Written recap with every study linked: https://kyleruthcoaching.com/fieldnotes/competition-weekend-preparation Questions and pushback in the comments. If there is a topic you want us to cover, put it here.

"Relaxing is a skill just as much as a ring muscle-up is. And if you want to be good at it, you have to practice it on a consistent basis." Almost every conditioning workout I write ends with box breathing for exactly this reason. Athletes who never practice calming down in training can't find the switch between events, and the night before a comp turns into a 2 AM replay of event three. The rest of it: - what to review when you wake up at 2 AM, instead of the heat sheet - the breath counting drill I put in warm-ups (and the running version from Brent Fikowski) - why most CrossFitters panic in the pool, and what CO2 has to do with your metcons - Ryne's case for a hobby that has nothing to do with CrossFit - what the best athletes count as a failed skill session - what a 2026 review found when it compared ice baths and compression to doing nothing Full episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5UMwSH8KkrTuK6dO1qeupG Written recap with every study linked: https://kyleruthcoaching.com/fieldnotes/cant-sleep-before-competition Corrections: the recovery review we mentioned is Jin et al. 2026 in Frontiers, not a Steve Magness paper. And the CO2 therapy results from Breath on air were a reduction not elimination of panic attacks; the recap has what the book actually reports. Questions and pushback in the comments. If there is a topic you want us to cover, put it here.

Coaching Field Notes No. 8 is live. On a recent Ruth Performance Collective call, the central question was: is fatigue necessary for adaptation? It's a loaded question, and the answer is it really depends. In coaching in general, there's this idea that hard training is better, and we are in a sport where the testing almost always feels hard. Full note: https://kyleruthcoaching.com/fieldnotes/is-fatigue-necessary New note every week. It goes out by email first: https://kyleruthcoaching.com/fieldnotes