Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, all services can be combined. For example, if you're interested in nutrition or training consultation and want to further clarify results with a coach, the service can be combined with live meeting service. Additionally, it's possible to combine the service of nutrition planning and training into one comprehensive service. You can always contact us with your preferences and suggestions, and we will create a service package that best suits you.

The answer to this question is very simple: yes. Personal training services can be most beneficial to complete beginners who have never engaged in any sport before, for several reasons. The first and most important reason is health. Motivated by initial enthusiasm, beginners usually start too hard or adopt the wrong approach by imitating their role models, often resulting in injuries, which then leads to a negative attitude towards sport and loss of motivation.

For a beginner, it is crucial to start slowly, gradually learn and absorb the specifics of the chosen sport, but also to learn about oneself and one's body. At the beginning, much more attention should be paid to health, and then to performance. The only factor of progress in endurance sports is consistency and gradual improvement over a longer period of time. One of the most important things in this is to avoid injuries and maintain high motivation.

A coach will ensure that the athlete does not get injured so that they can progress in the long term, take care of the athlete's motivation, design training based on scientifically proven principles and the individual characteristics of the athlete, help the athlete optimize their investments in the sport (time and money), and much more.

It is actually very difficult to give an answer to this question, and the reason can be best explained by an example - one person can train for 20 hours per week and see minimal progress on a weekly basis, while another person can train for 5 hours per week and see significant progress after several weeks. It all depends mostly on the individual's goals and previous experience. The person training for 20 hours per week is likely experienced, has been training for a long time, and is already at a high level of physical fitness. In such conditions, progress is often minimal and requires much more effort and work. On the other hand, a person who is just starting out and gradually increasing their training volume to 5 hours per week will see significant progress, but over time and with experience, these gains will become smaller and smaller, while the effort invested becomes greater. This is the nature of training in any sport, including endurance sports.

Another aspect is the individual's goal. The goal could be maintaining health or competing in an age category or overall ranking in a chosen discipline. For maintaining health and moderate progress, it would be ideal to progress to 5 hours of training per week with an appropriate schedule of training intensity and rest, as well as a healthy diet. If a person has less time available per week, it is still possible to improve their health and progress in the sport and discipline. Any amount of weekly activity is better than none. For more serious progress in sports, more time will be needed, which of course depends on the available training time for each individual. In addition to the training volume itself, it is important to structure the training with focus on intensity in order to induce the desired adaptations and performance improvements. Unstructured training without progression and variation in intensity often leads to stagnation and a lack of progress in performance, although it still has a positive impact on health.

The answer to this question partially depends on the sport and discipline you have chosen. For running, you'll need quality running shoes, or more than one pair depending on your experience and chosen disciplines, appropriate high-quality clothing, and additional equipment such as vests/belts for carrying items like gels, energy bars, and a water bottle. For cycling, you'll need a suitable bike, cycling shoes, appropriate high-quality clothing, a quality helmet, and additional equipment like bike lights, a water bottle, a bike repair kit for on-the-go repairs, including punctured tires, etc. Depending on your goals and previous experience, besides mandatory equipment essential for your safety, you don't immediately need everything, and it doesn't have to be the most expensive available.

If you want to use personal training services which are conducted remotely, the minimum requirement is a wearable device with GPS (watch, cycling computer) so you can perform and record your workouts. Ideally, such a device should support services like TrainingPeaks, Strava, etc., for example, Garmin, Suunto, Polar, Coros, or others. Most watches today have an optical wrist-based heart rate monitor, but the reliability of such heart rate monitors during activities is relatively low, so these data cannot be considered when conducting training. Therefore, it is advisable to get a separate chest strap heart rate monitor that measures the electrical activity of your heart. For cycling, if possible, a power meter is an excellent tool. Note that with smart trainers, it comes built into the device.

In any case, if you're just starting to acquire equipment, feel free to contact us for assistance in saving money, selecting what you really need, and avoiding unnecessary, inappropriate, or unsuitable purchases. Correct and suitable equipment is crucial for a quality sports experience and is also crucial in injury prevention. If you use our training planning service, assistance with equipment selection is free for you. Additionally, advice and assistance with equipment selection can be included in other services such as live meeting, training consulting, or analysis of running/cycling techniques.