Coaching Field Notes No. 10 is live. When we talked to Scott, Haley was 35 days out from her first 50K trail race. It's Cloudland Canyon: roughly 30 miles, 5,000 feet of elevation gain, and a backcountry section neither of us has ever set foot on. Haley is a strong, fit runner and has been following Alex Viada's powerlifting-marathon program, which ends with a mock powerlifting meet one week before race day. Full note: https://kyleruthcoaching.com/fieldnotes/what-we-didnt-know New note every week. It goes out by email first: https://kyleruthcoaching.com/fieldnotes

This week's Ruth Performance Collective education call: If someone was hiring you as a high-priced consultant, you're going to capture as much information about their business as possible before you get in there. You're not going to come into that consult and say, "All right, guys, tell me about your business." That's why capturing all of this intake information and processing it before you get onto that initial call is so important. If you just started the consult with "Tell me about your CrossFit," you would never end up getting to the stuff that actually can move the needle. The full call, slides and Q&A are inside the Collective: https://kyleruthcoaching.com/collective First 7 days free when you join by Sunday 11/15, then $149/month or $1,399/year. Cancel before day 7 and you're not charged.

Coaching Field Notes No. 9 is live. On a recent Ruth Performance Collective call, we wrapped up the fatigue discussions we've been having for the last few weeks with what I think is one of the most common misconceptions in the training space: the interference effect, or the idea that you can't lift heavy, build speed and power, and build endurance simultaneously. Full note: https://kyleruthcoaching.com/fieldnotes/cardio-strength-gains New note every week. It goes out by email first: https://kyleruthcoaching.com/fieldnotes

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?

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