Write Training Plans Month by Month

For qualified, insured coaches

A middle ground between a one-off plan and full monthly coaching. You write the plan one month at a time and adjust it as the athlete develops, without weekly calls or daily messages.

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What are Monthly Training Plans?

You write the athlete's training plan a month at a time rather than handing over the whole block at once. At the end of each month the athlete completes a short questionnaire covering what they liked, what they did not, and any injuries or niggles they are carrying. You use that to shape the next month.

This sits between one-off plan writing and full monthly coaching. You still adjust the plan as the athlete grows, but without the weekly catch-up calls or the daily communication that ongoing coaching involves.

You set your own capacity and your own price per month. Each month's plan is built around that athlete's fitness, goals, and life, and refined from the previous month's feedback. Your own plans become personal templates over time, so you get quicker as your roster grows.

How It Works

From the athlete's first search to each month's plan landing in their hands, here is how the process fits together.

1

The Athlete Selects Their Race

They start by choosing the race they are training for.

2

The Athlete Shares Their Details

They enter their preferences, goals, and availability. We use that to match them with suitable coaches.

3

The Athlete Picks a Coach

They choose their preferred coach from a shortlist we give them.

4

The Coach Reviews the Request

You see everything about the athlete, their experience, and their goals, and decide whether to take them on.

5

The Coach Writes the First Month

You build the opening month around the athlete intake and deliver it with rationale for the important decisions.

6

The Athlete Completes the End-of-Month Questionnaire

At the end of each month they tell you what they liked, what they did not, and any injuries. You write the next month around that feedback.

What Monthly Plan Writers Actually Do

You will:

  • +Write and deliver the plan one month at a time
  • +Review the end-of-month questionnaire and adjust the next month around it
  • +Keep the plan moving with the athlete as their fitness and life change
  • +Build each month around one athlete rather than a fixed format, from scratch at first
  • +Save your own plans as personal templates, so you get quicker as your roster grows
  • +Set your own price per month and your own capacity

You are not expected to:

  • xHold weekly catch-up calls
  • xField daily messages from the athlete
  • xRebuild the plan mid-month for every change
  • xCoach races or distances outside what you are comfortable with
  • xProvide medical or physiotherapy advice
  • xGuarantee a specific result on race day
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Why this role exists

01

Some athletes need adjustment, not conversation

A one-off plan can go stale over a long build. Full coaching is more contact than some athletes want or need. Writing the plan month by month keeps it current without the calls and daily messages.

02

The questionnaire does the check-in

A structured end-of-month questionnaire tells you what landed, what did not, and what is hurting. You get the signal you need to shape the next month without a standing meeting in the diary.

03

You set the pace

You choose how many athletes to take on and what to charge per month, starting small and growing your roster as you have capacity for it. Nobody assigns you a quota.

Why Your Experience Matters

Your coaching qualifications, your years working with other athletes, and your own racing all feed the same thing: judgment that turns a month of feedback into a better next month.

Most first-time racers underestimate how much fatigue accumulates and how much life gets in the way of a perfect training block. Reading that from a monthly questionnaire and adjusting for it is what separates this from a plan someone downloads once.

These are the kinds of judgment calls that go into writing each new month:

  • -When to push and when to back off, based on how the last month actually went
  • -How to work around a niggle the athlete reported without losing the block
  • -How to keep the plan realistic as the athlete's life shifts month to month
  • -What matters most in the final weeks before a race
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Ready to apply?

Tell us about your coaching qualifications, your experience, and the races you know best. We review every application.

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