Blog: The Coaching Chronicles
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BOISE, Idaho – [July 1, 2026] – Source Endurance is proud to announce that coach Taylor Warren has been selected by USA Cycling to coach and direct its 2026 European Junior Race Camps (15-16 year old athletes) for the national governing body’s development program for the country’s top young road racers. USA Cycling contracted Warren…
Coaches Adam and Ethan discuss strategies, methodologies, and best practices for developing young, junior endurance athletes (such as junior cyclists). They discuss building sustainable pathways, coaching youth effectively, and balancing the physiological and psychological development required for long-term growth in endurance sports.
We are super stoked to congratulate Coach Adam and Coach Stacey for their continued work strengthening the connection between USA Cycling’s Coach Education team and the wider coaching community! Together, they’re helping elevate coaching standards across all disciplines by sharing expertise, insights, and real-world experience that support coaches at every level. Through their work, they’re…
We caught up with Source Endurance alumni, Alex Hoehn and reminisced about his GC win at the Tour of the Gila way back in 2023. Then we talked about how his intensity in sport has benefitted him in his post-cycling endeavours. In 2023, you won the overall by just two seconds over Óscar Sevilla…
Functional training expert Dr. Stacey Brickson joins us to explain why no other sport movement is like the pedal stroke and, more importantly, why that requires doing additional strength work. Listen HERE!
Most athletes assume meaningful improvement has an expiration date. In coaching, I’ve found the opposite: the principles don’t change with age-the margin for error does. Here’s a coach’s perspective on specificity, progressive overload, and older-athlete considerations. This article is a case study on coaching my 75-year-old mom to a 75-79 age group win at USA…
Every coach has seen it: an athlete comes back frustrated, and the file looks… fine. Normalized Power (NP) is close. Peak power still pops. HR doesn’t look outrageous. But the race felt messy, and the result confirms it. Here are two races one year apart that look similar on paper – until you zoom in…
The modern cyclist is inundated with data. From power meters and heart rate monitors to continuous glucose monitors and sleep trackers, the quantification of performance has never been more accessible. In parallel, Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ AI Coaching has risen to meet this deluge, offering algorithmic training plans that promise optimized, adaptive training without the cost…
Performance testing is how we evaluate our strengths and weaknesses, what’s overdeveloped and underexpressed. It’s not a judgement, it’s a compass. As a coach, I don’t believe in religiously prescribing power tests to my athletes, but following a period of transition, testing can be quite useful. Testing an athlete’s physiology, whether in the lab or…
