Smart, Sweaty, and Slightly Out of Sync: A Realistic Guide for Endurance Athletes with a Life - Softcover

Gibbons, Darren

 
9798899650772: Smart, Sweaty, and Slightly Out of Sync: A Realistic Guide for Endurance Athletes with a Life
Softcover
ISBN 13: 9798899650772
Publisher: Staten House, 2025

Synopsis

Endurance coach Darren Gibbons takes you through a complete, real-life coaching framework:

  • Identity & Mindset: act like the athlete you’re becoming; fewer stories, more decisions.
  • Swim, Bike, Run (done smart): mechanics before metres, sustainable power, controlled threshold and long runs that don’t flatten your week.
  • Strength that transfers: hinges, splits, rows and carries — positions that make hour three feel like hour one.
  • Recovery & Real Life: plan deloads, scale before you scrap, and keep the habit alive when sleep and stress misbehave.
  • Season Design: phases with rhythm, mini-rebuilds, taper without panic.
  • Race Strategy: pacing plans that work, calm transitions, fuelling you’ve actually tested.
  • After the Medal: reflect, reset, repeat — build the loop that makes you better every season.
  • Tools that stick: quick reference cues, “Should I train today?” trees, brick progressions, and a Data Sanity Agreement to keep tech helpful, not bossy.

It’s not a promise of perfect weeks. It’s a practical system for imperfect ones — built on UK-plain language, small upgrades and tidy execution: one session, one job, two cues, finish clean.

If you want training that survives real life — and still delivers on race day — this is your playbook.

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About the Author

Darren Gibbons is a UK-based endurance coach and founder of Smart Performance Coaching (SPC). He works with triathletes and runners from first-time finishers to Ironman athletes, specialising in simple, confidence-first training that fits around real life.With a background in triathlon, run coaching and youth development, Darren is known for turning complex ideas into clear, practical sessions: one job, two cues, finish clean. He coaches athletes online and in person across the UK, balancing data with common sense, and performance with mental health.When he's not on the poolside, track or turbo, Darren is usually writing, drinking coffee, or cheering on his athletes at races in the rain.

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Publisher
Staten House
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 13 
9798899650772
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
296