Our goal is to help athletes of all abilities perform at their best, reach their goals, and enjoy their sport.

Our Coaching Process

There is no program, workout, or training method that is a perfect fit for everybody. Rather than trying to fit individuals into a program, we create each program and workout based around the person’s needs, current fitness, preferences, and availability. In this way our athletes see results from training more quickly, and are less likely to experience injury or burnout. All of our training is based on proven methods of physiology and sport psychology. Our training methods are discussed in more detail below.

Running

Classic Running coaches have years of experience in the sport of running, having worked with athletes at the youth, high school, college, elite, and masters levels, and ranging in events from 800m to the marathon and even the ultra-marathon distances. To train athletes at these distances, we use a variety of methods, including aerobic conditioning, threshold training, anaerobic training, sprint and neuromuscular development, VO2 Max training, varying terrain workouts, and more. By communicating with each runner, we use regular feedback to find the combination of training that is best for each person. Training volumes are also personalized, with each week or month of training building upon what the athlete has done so far. This helps our runners adapt to each block of training while also preventing injury that usually results from overreaching.

Whether you are wanting to run your first 5k, training to qualify for the Boston Marathon, or working towards elite times on the track or roads, we will create a program that draws upon your strengths and is built for you.

Strength Training

Our strength training programs are built to accomplish a number of tasks for the athlete. First, we focus on strengthening the primary muscles involved in the movement of each sport, allowing the athlete to generate more force and be more efficient in their movements. Another focus of our strength programs is injury prevention. By strengthening stabilizing muscles and connective tissue, the athlete can withstand the impact of training with less chance of injury. Finally, the strength program promotes healthy hormonal and immune function. We use strengthening techniques that are known to increase the output of hormones associated with muscle building, recovery, and an improved immune system.

Each strength program is modeled according to the athlete’s sport needs and availability of resources. For example, if you don’t have access to a gym, or like to work out outdoors when possible, or you prefer to use free weights, we will work together to create a program that you enjoy based on the tools at hand. Our strength programs incorporate a number of different activities, including weight lifting, plyometric exercises, form drills, mobility and flexibility, and more.

Swimming

For many of our athletes, swimming is a form of cross-training, or a way to increase fitness without adding too many miles of running at once. By improving technique and fitness in the water, runners and triathletes can experience huge benefits in cardiovascular fitness, recovery, and strength and speed. Like all of our programs, swimming plans are tailored to the individual. Swimming can be added to any training schedule at the amount that is best for each athlete. Our swimmers also benefit from “dry land” or out-of-water technique and conditioning sessions.

All of our swim programs are designed by Coach Riley, who has years of experience in the sport and is a head coach in the NCAA system. Swimming can be so much more than just hitting a certain number of yards or minutes in the pool. Riley designs programs that allow for variation to keep the training exciting, with structured intervals, stroke tempo training, technique drills, and much more.

Mental Skills Training

While we include sport psychology principles in all of our training, we also have the option of working on specific mental skills with our athletes. Our mental skills training program is based in recent advanced methods of sport psychology. We choose to use the term “mental skills” rather than “sport psychology” because we focus on aspects of the mind and sport that have immediate and direct impacts on training and competition. Just like physical skills, mental skills can be trained over time with focused, repeated training.

We are able to work on a number of mental skills with our athletes. Athletes can choose to target specific skills in a mental training session, in which they will be guided through exercises and given exercises to complete on their own. Athletes may also choose to participate in our 8-week mental skills program, where they will learn a number of mental skills, each building upon the previous skill, all of which are based in the foundational psychology concept of human need fulfillment. Skills that we focus on include focus, confidence, positive emotions, constructing relationships in sport, goal setting and achievement, recovery, improved quality of sleep, and more. If there is anything about the mental side of sport that you want to discuss or improve, we will be glad to help!

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