Why Female Triathletes Make Great Coaching Clients (and What You Can Learn From Them)

The easiest triathletes to coach are the ones that communicate openly about how they feel.  On the other hand, most men don't have a knack for doing this naturally.  

A coach needs to know much more than just distance and time.  It often takes me a few sessions to get guys to start opening up and tell me how they are really feeling.  Once guys get over it, then things really start to flow.

One of the reasons scientists theorize women live longer than men has to do with their doctor visits.  First off, many men won't even go to the doctor in the first place.  When we do, we just grunt like a caveman that everything's fine and can we leave now.

Even if you don't have a coach, you can learn from this fact.  Talk to yourself and others around you about how your workouts make you feel, not just how fast you went for how far.  When you bring up that odd pain in your knee or that you ran out of go juice on mile five, you've laid something out on the table that now has the opportunity to get fixed.