Olen , Belgium
English, Dutch, Flemish, French
- Triathlon
- Road Cycling
- Running
- Mountain Biking
- Cyclocross
- Duathlon
- IRONMAN
- XTERRA
- Swimming
- Personal Training
- Adventure Racing
- 1-on-1 Coaching
- Consultations
- Local Coaching
- Remote Coaching
- Training Camps
- Swim Analysis
From your first triathlon to a world title: I coach endurance athletes at every level using the same principle — polarized training. Easy is genuinely easy, hard is genuinely hard, and that structure works for beginners just as well as it did for the athletes who won world titles with it.
I come from competitive swimming, and moved into triathlon looking for a new challenge. I soon started advising training partners on their build-up — and realized my talent for coaching outweighed my talent for racing. I've now coached endurance athletes for 15 years, across the full range of endurance sport: swimming, cycling, running, duathlon, triathlon (IRONMAN® & 70.3), and XTERRA®.
My approach is polarized training. Most of your volume is genuinely easy — not a "comfortable pace" that feels like training but barely moves the needle. Hard is then genuinely hard, with as little as possible in between. I actively avoid overtraining and junk miles: every session in your plan has a purpose toward your race. And whether you're following a ready-made plan or getting 1-on-1 coaching, I stay closely involved throughout — not a plan you receive and are then left to figure out on your own.
Athletes I've coached have won a professional world title in duathlon and three IRONMAN® age-group world titles (AG 25-29, AG 35-39, AG 50-54), plus national championships, European Triathlon Cup medals, and multiple IRONMAN® World Championship qualifications. More than 200 training plans have been sold through TrainingPeaks, with free email support included.
Master's degree in Movement Sciences. Based in Olen, Belgium — coaching mostly remote, with in-person swim analysis for athletes nearby.
Olen
Belgium
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