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Your Smart Training Score, your biggest blocker, and one fix for this week

Training around a real life,
but can't stay consistent?

Whether it's your first 5K or your next Ironman, you're fitting training around a real life, work, family and everything else. In about 60 seconds you'll get your Smart Training Score, the one thing quietly holding your training back, and one fix you can use this week.

It's not the training that trips you up. It's fitting it around real life.

Most people who stall don't lack the fitness or the want, life just keeps eating the training. You start and stop, or go too hard and fall off, or grind away for weeks and feel like you're not really getting anywhere. It's almost never that you're not built for it, it's one thing quietly getting in the way, and once you can see it, it's fixable.

Which one is you?

Nearly everyone who can't stay consistent has one of these behind it, and most people blame the wrong thing. Sound familiar?

Type 01
The All-or-Nothing

Flying when the week's perfect, but miss a session and the whole thing quietly unravels?

Type 02
The Time-Starved

Always meaning to train, but life keeps winning and it never actually makes the diary?

Type 03
The Overreacher

Pile it on when you're motivated, then burn out, break down, or drop off?

Type 04
The Winger

Training, or trying to, with no real plan, and never quite sure it's working?

Type 05
The Grey-Zoner

Training hard and consistently, week after week, but the progress has quietly gone flat?

Not a score and a shrug. A clear read on your one fix.

The moment you finish, you get the full picture, where your training stands right now, the one thing holding it back, and the first fix to make this week. Plain, honest, and completely doable, wherever you're starting from.

Find Out Why 60 seconds. Wherever you're starting from.
58
Good Base, Room to Sharpen
Smart Training Score 58 / 100

Good Base, Room to Sharpen. You scored 58.

You've got a strong engine, and most people juggling training around a full life would have let it slide by now. One or two things are quietly working loose. Here's the biggest one.

The one thing holding you back
The Overreacher

When motivation's high you pile it on, then a big week, a work crunch or a niggle knocks you flat and the training drops off. It was never willpower, it's that nearly every session runs a bit too hard to keep up.

Your first fix

This week, make your easy sessions genuinely easy, slow enough to hold a conversation, so the hard days can actually be hard. Ease off to go further.

Built by the coaches at Smart Performance Coaching, including British Triathlon coach Darren Gibbons, who's coached people from their very first run to Ironman finish lines, and athletes to the Olympics. This is the first step of the system he coaches, not a generic test.

Andrea, a Smart Performance Coaching athlete, running in an SPC race vest
Andrea Stokes
From little to no running to her first half marathon in six months.
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Ticked off all Seven World Marathon Majors.
"Training with SPC transformed my performance and life."
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Lowri
Thought an Ironman was out of reach, then finished the full 140.6 around family and work.
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Dave
The Brathay 10 in 10, ten marathons in ten days.

Real people, real lives, coached further than they thought they could go.

Find the one thing holding your training back

A few quick questions. About 60 seconds. Your Smart Training Score, the one thing quietly holding your training back, and one fix to make this week.

Find Out Why 60 seconds. Wherever you're starting from.
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