Coach's Companion

Coach-prescription companion to the Power-Duration Curve, Quadrant Analysis, and Critical Power articles. Documents how to match an athlete's natural physiological profile to the cycling, running, or triathlon discipline most likely to produce success, and conversely how to redirect athletes whose profile is mismatched to their current event focus.

Coach-prescription companion to the Load Balance and Training Load Chart articles. Documents the coach-side decision tree from each Load Balance band to a concrete next-session prescription, the principles that govern overload-block placement and recovery-week scheduling, the multi-athlete reading workflow, the warning patterns that indicate non-functional overreaching vs productive overload, and the boundary conditions where chart-only reasoning fails.

Coach-prescription companion to the Power-Duration Curve article. Covers how to convert an athlete's PDC + best-effort dot cloud into specific weekly session prescriptions, how to identify the dominant performance limiter (CP / W′ / durability) from curve shape, how to design 4-week interval blocks that target the limiter without compromising other domains, and how to rebalance weekly volume distribution to match the athlete's race-discipline profile.

Coach-prescription companion to the Readiness Score and HRV articles. Documents the multi-source coach reading workflow, how to integrate Readiness composite + HRV trend + subjective wellness + Load Balance into a single morning decision, the band-by-band session-modification rules, and the warning patterns that distinguish productive overreach from incipient non-functional overreaching.

Coach-prescription companion covering the structured return-to-training protocol after extended layoffs (illness, injury, off-season break, life event). Documents the de-trained-state baseline assessment, the week-1-to-week-12 progressive ramp template, the daily LB and HRV monitoring during ramp, and the warning patterns that indicate the ramp is too aggressive for the athlete's current capacity.

Coach-prescription companion to the Taper Math article. Documents the day-by-day taper-week structure for short and long endurance events, the volume-cut cadence with intensity preserved, race-week session selection, the LB-projection check that confirms the taper is on track, and the patterns that flag a mistuned taper before race day.