Our philosophy: build the training system around the athlete, not the other way around. 

At Wattage Workshop, our training system is that we don’t have a training system. We build an entirely new one around each athlete based on their goals, training capacity, and physiological makeup. Every athlete responds to training differently, and a holistic training program must identify, and build these individual responses into all aspects of that athlete’s periodization.

Full spectrum training for full spectrum athletes. 

If we are to believe that every athlete responds to training differently, then we must avoid generalizing workouts into training zones and ranges, and we must avoid placing undue emphasis (or deemphasis) on any one of those training zones as well. The Wattage Workshop approach postulates that all training intensities are interconnected, and the best way to improve overall performance is to ensure that each athlete works across their entire spectrum of possible training efforts. From an easy jog to an all out sprint, every type of effort plays it’s own role in improving race performance, and we push or athletes to embrace, and expand, their training spectrum. 

What gets measured gets managed.

As our name suggests, we are pretty big on data here, and tracking as much of our athletes’ data as possible allows us to better analyze and optimize their training. We can’t pay attention to the details if we don’t know what those details are, and we are always searching for, testing, and embracing new technologies as they become available. But we also acknowledge when to embrace the analytics, and when to ignore them. While we do take a scientific approach to training we also understand that it is still not a perfect science, and we never want the data to limit what our athletes believe they can do. The athlete and their feelings is always our most trusted instrument. 

Freshness equals fitness.

The goal of any training program is to maximize performance at a few key times (for our priority races). However, too often, athletes arrive at their big day well-trained, but fatigued either mentally or physically (and sometimes both!). This not only blunts race performance, but often leaves the athlete blaming themselves for being unable to match performances that they achieved earlier in the season, or even during training.  We aim to keep physical and mental recovery as a central tenet in any training program, balancing fitness building (but freshness reducing) hard work, with more than adequate recovery to ensure a sustainable and constructive training momentum that leaves you feeling fast and aggressive on race day.