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Testimonials from Coach Patrick’s Athletes

“I am in my 5th year in the sport. For the first four years I self-coached/scrambled around with my training. Got the free stuff on line, cut out the magazine workouts and training plans. I also have an education background in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology so I figured I could figure it all out.

This year I hired Patrick. I had also been to a few clinics that he had held last year.

Here are some things so far that I’ve learned about working with him:

1. Life is stressful enough and Patrick takes the stress out of figuring out where you are and what you need to do next with your training.

2. Sounding board. Even with experience sometimes having Patrick tell you what you are already thinking has a calming effect and again lets you focus on ‘just what you need to do’.

3. Someone on the outside looking in. You think you know what your body is doing …but someone with an experienced ‘eye’ can really tell you. This is really priceless since success and enjoyment in this sport is affected by your technique and how you execute.

4. All the ‘stuff’ on training and training plans out there is set up to hit most of the people most of the time. Working with Patrick can help eliminate the ‘stuff’ that you DON”T need to work on and let you use your training time for those things that YOU will benefit the most from. This has been the big ‘AH HA’ for me this year.

Patrick is able to work with you no matter what your level is. First timer to someone who wants to qualify for Hawaii. He can walk the walk on any level. THIS is rare I think. For someone like myself who is in the middle – you benefit from the high end performer who can still relate to your level. It’s great!

There are so many things to spend money on in this sport. Working with Patrick is some of the best money I’ve spent.”

– Kris G.

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“i have been working with patrick from pts for the past 2 years and am
**extremely** happy.

he and the rest of the coaches in the PTS group are great at working with
people like most of us: age groupers with a busy schedule and obligations
such as work, family, etc etc.

patrick successfully coaches his athletes to perform to the best of their
ability, all while highlighting the importance of us doing this sport as a
fun hobby and that it’s important to keep in mind the fun aspect of it – i
think this perspective he has is key to the success his athletes have had

most of us don’t have all day/year to train like the pros do – work,
family etc might sometimes/often take priority over our training, he
understands all of this (he is a dad and runs PTS full-time…yet has
managed to qualify and go to kona at the same time – and previous to this
he worked full time and in total has completed 9 ironmans)

yet somehow he manages to schedule our training in a way that lets us
enjoy what’s important in our lives outside of triathlon, but keeps us
focused on our training by scheduling quality training sessions in the
time available to us to train

i have PR’ed on all my races in 2006…and my 1st ironman back in july
went very smoothly – and yes, while i’m the one who “did the work”, his
guidance/coaching helped to make that happen (…and if you look on the
athlete results pages on the website, you will see many, many PR’s from
PTS athletes
http://www.performancetrainingsystems.com/clients/results.html).”

– Pam R.

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“The 10Hours system totally ROCKS! I bought Coach P’s book mid-2007 and used tools to plan the rest of my year. I had a great end to my season on focused training. Can’t wait to it again in 2008!”

– Joe S.

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