Fast Talk Laboratories, the online education platform, has launched a new support platform for endurance sports coaches.
‘Two new memberships, Coaching Essentials and USA Cycling Coach member levels, offer a deep endurance knowledgebase, science-based coaching education and development, access to world-class experts, and collaborative athlete services that can extend any coach’s capabilities for their athletes.’
As members, coaches gain access to the Fast Talk Labs knowledgebase. This features guides for coaches such as The Craft of Coaching with Joe Friel. In this guide, Friel shares lessons learned about athlete management, the business of coaching, training plans and workouts, performance data analysis, and more.
Fast Talk Labs is offering collaborative athlete services for coaches. Here, coaches can extend their support for their athletes by referring athletes to Fast Talk Labs for services such as sports nutrition guidance, INSCYD or other physiological testing, and data analysis sessions.
Coach members gain access to Pathways, which are deep dives into specific endurance topics by world-class experts. These include; Dr Stephen Seiler, Dr Andy Pruitt, and Dr Stephen Cheung. Pathways include contributions from dozens of Fast Talk podcast guests such as Sebastian Weber, Kendra Wenzel, Dr Julie Emmerman, Dr Iñigo San Millán, Julie Young, Neal Henderson, and other top coaches and athletes.
Fast Talk Labs releases Pathways about once a month and now offers 11 Pathways on topics ranging from cycling interval training, to performance data analysis, sport psychology, indoor cycling, and sports nutrition. Later this summer, coaches can earn USA Cycling-recognized CEUs by completing Fast Talk Labs Pathways.
Fast Talk Labs also offers coach members networking opportunities with other coaches, small group Q&A sessions with Joe Friel and other experts, and a coaches-only online forum. Through a partnership, current, licensed USA Cycling coaches get free access to Fast Talk Labs, The Craft of Coaching, and exclusive USA Cycling content and events.
“Fast Talk Labs is a different kind of endurance sports platform, one that supports both athletes and coaches,” said company CEO Trevor Connor.
“Our partnership with USA Cycling and this new Coaching Essentials member level show that we are committed to supporting coaches because we know from personal experience how important coaches are to creating a better athlete sports experience.”
