(groaning)
Good well into the afternoon, Trainiacs.
Currently just past three.
I did the biggest workout that I have done
since last Half Iron Man I've done.
347 on the bike, big over distance day
now that we are about six weeks away from Coeur d'Alene
followed by a 25 minute run at 420 per kilometer pace,
sub seven mile pace, no fancy montage of that,
because today is a bigger day.
We're announcing and showing you
what the coaching platform is gonna be like.
(loud clap) Wanna save some time for that.
Hold on to your butts.
(upbeat music)
Alright Trainiacs, three hours, a nap,
a giant bowl of oatmeal, and a few minutes
coaxing NTK into making us delicious sushi tonight,
and I'm back.
So when I started thinking about what I wanted
a coaching platform to be, it had to be a few things.
Number one, has to be flexible.
It has to account for people racing
at different times of the year.
Also has to account for people
not being able to train on certain days.
Also has to adjust based off of the input
that the triathlete is giving.
I also want the Trainiacs to be accountable,
accountable to yourself, accountable to me,
and accountable to everyone else.
If you're accountable to more people than just yourself,
it's harder for you to cop out,
so it's more likely that you're gonna stick to it.
Big thing was that it had to be affordable.
One on one coaching usually starts
around 200 dollars a month.
The other option right now is basically free
and you put it all together, and I wanted to work out
so many discounts for you that, essentially,
it pays for itself by making all of that gear
that you have to buy in a year cheaper.
And then finally, I want it to be interactive.
Like I said, people are gonna be accountable,
but I don't want it to be just here's your plan,
here's what you gotta do on the day,
alright, see ya, Taren out."
I'm gonna have office hours and there's gonna be
a community aspect of this where we do group rides,
group workouts, so that you're not just
going through it by yourself.
Let's make that, all around the world.
I've already built it, let me show ya.
Alright, so here's the wire frame of what I wanna build
with my very much non-designer-y eye in mind.
You start by adding race distances
with your first and the last race of the year.
You rearrange the workouts to where you can do them
throughout the week and we'll guide you with this
with tutorials so that you can drag these around
and customize when your workouts are going to show up.
You put in your max heart rate on the bike if you know it,
your FTP on the bike, same thing.
If you know it great, if not we'll help you out with that.
Then you answer these three questions
about your overall health.
Have you had sicknesses?
Have you had injuries?
And from that, you hit generate your training plan
and what will be spit out is your annual periodization.
Boom, right from there, we start spitting out
all of your customized training zones.
We spit out when throughout the season
you should be focusing on base,
when you should be focusing on strength,
when you should be focusing on speed,
and all of your workouts are going to be customized
for when in the season you are.
So what's gonna happen is you will tune in every single day
and there will be a customized workout for you,
pulling from a database of around 2400 workouts
that'll be reflective of what your A-race is
throughout the year, where you are in the year,
how you're doing in your training.
You'll also have indications of when my office hours
are going to be in here, so if something comes up
throughout the course of the week that you're like,
"You know, I really need to talk to Taren."
You can tune into that live stream.
We will also show the notifications
for the group ride in there,
and this is where you'll also see the accountability.
You'll check off whether you've completed
these workouts or not and how it went,
and where this is going to go next is that aspect
of the Trainiac community.
We're building in a social media feed
so that you can show people when you completed a workout,
how it went, and you can see from other people
which workouts they've completed, how it went,
and if you have a question for them
that can't really wait until office hours,
you can post it in your feed and people that follow you
can go in and answer it for you,
because maybe they've had a similar question
that they've asked me before.
They know the answer like, "Oh, this swim terminology,
yeah, I had to deal with that."
Boom, there you go, so it starts building
this accountability that we are a team all around the world,
and I think that it's gonna be awesome.
Obviously, a lot of calculators that we've got
for your race nutrition, for your daily calorie calculator,
and all of our sponsor discounts
are going to be listed here, and you can see
some of the sponsor discounts that we've already worked out.
Finesse, Ventum, you buy one bike, boom,
this entire program is paid for.
FYI, we're targeting just 57 dollars a month.
So you might be saying like, "Hey, Taren, this is
a wire frame, I wanna actually make sure this works."
It does.
You might not know this about me,
but I am quite handy with a spreadsheet,
so I've actually gone and built a functional, working model
of this to show you how it would actually work.
Step one, you sign up, you put in your name,
your email address, and your birth date,
and it's already from your birth date,
starting to calculate certain aspects of your training.
Then, you put in your inputs.
So you put in the approximate date of your first race,
your last race, and what your goal race is for the year.
So in my case, my first race is Coeur d'Alene,
my last race is gonna be Half Iron Man Worlds.
I put in that it's a Half Iron Man
and then I select all of the days that I wanna work out.
You can just easily drag these.
And that's actually my training block
over the course of a week.
Boom!
You've got yourself a training plan
where every single day, it indicates, obviously,
what the date is, where you are in your annual plan,
and what the purpose of the week is.
Are we building speed, are we adapting to that speed,
or are we resting?
And then the workouts are given to you,
and it's pulling from a database of,
like I said, 2400 workouts.
Now you might be saying, "Well, hey Taren,
you could've just put these in."
No, no, no, no, no.
Look at the warmup right now.
Four times 50 done as 100 easy free,
I change it to a sprint.
Three times 150, so it adjusts
based off the race that you're training for.
What if you wanna change days?
Alright, well, we'll just take this
and move it over to Monday.
Bam, it's on Monday!
Huh, how about this?
And this is as easy as it's going to be.
And remember when I said that it starts customizing
based off the inputs that you give it?
As you're going through workouts,
you start inputting how stable is your life,
how's your recovery, are you beat down or are you sore,
how many hours of sleep did you get,
how did your workout go, did it feel really good,
or did it feel really challenging?
And then as you start accumulating data,
within a matter of days you start indications of
you're looking good, go after it 100 percent, kill it,
or listen closely to your body today,
because it's starting to recognize
that your trends are dipping lower,
and then when it dips low enough,
it'll actually indicate that maybe you should
take a full day of rest.
So it's not just that static training plan anymore.
It starts listening to you to give you those indications
to back off or to push, because it's not just as simple as
here's a training plan, we're gonna give you
this nice straight line and that's all that happens.
That's not life.
This recognizes life.
I am so jacked up about this.
When this started working I was like, "OMG, game changer."
Okay, now, here's the thing.
Why is this not out yet if it already exists?
Well, remember when I tried to launch those training camps
and I said to you that I was gonna be better
at listening to you before I go too far down a path?
In the description below, there's going to be
a link to a Kickstarter campaign.
Now, this Kickstarter campaign is a very low goal
of just 2500 dollars US.
It's gonna cost a fair bit more to build this.
It's not about raising money.
I just need some indication that you want this,
but what you'll see is that all of the rewards
for supporters of that Kickstarter are getting discounts
on two months of the coaching platform,
four months of the coaching platform,
and if people are willing to support the Kickstarter
with all of the incentive really just being
getting a discount on the coaching platform,
it's a very good indication that a lot of you
want the coaching platform.
So alright, Trainiacs, this is massively exciting.
The link to that Kickstarter is in the description below,
and if you have any questions,
my email address is Taren@TriathlonTaren.com.
I'll be answering questions and sharing more details
about all of this over the next month
as that Kickstarter campaign is going.
So, go check it out.
Hopefully you like it.
I'm jazzed.
So jazzed.