Vigilante

Coach Christian's training philosophy can be chalked up to 90% Coach Vigil, 5% 20 years of experience racing, and 5% trial and error. So who is Coach Vigil?

Coach Joe Vigil is a 2015 USATF Legend Coach, 2015 IAAF NACAC Continental Area Legendary Coach, with 12 years high school, 28 years collegiate, and 20 years of Elite athlete coaching experience. Coach Vigil has a bachelor's degree, two master's degrees, and his doctorate. He had 425 All Americans in college, along with 87 individual national champions. He's had 47 national champions at the professional level, 17 national records, and 20 podium medalist at World Championships for Cross country and Track, and the Olympics. It's safe to say he knows his stuff. Christian's uncle has a close friendship with Coach Vigil and Coach Vigil gladly shares all his endless knowledge with Christian and his uncle.

AEROBIC CAPACITY

Most runner's aerobic capacity is not efficient enough for the event they are training for. Here's the good news, everyone can increase their aerobic capacity by an impressive amount! This can be done by increasing the distance of their long runs, their overall mileage, but more specifically, increasing their aerobic tempo runs in distance.

ANAEROBIC CAPACITY

Many coaches neglect the anaerobic capacity until pre-competition or competition phase. Coach Vigil and several other exercise scientist have proven this to be incorrect. You can practically train your anaerobic capacity year around as long as you keep the effort below 86% during base phase! Your prescribed pace can be determined by a simple all out mile time trial. Year around anaerobic training is tested and proven on my current athletes and myself.

No cookie cutters here

No two runners are the same! So no two runners will be coached that way. We all have different strengths, weaknesses, and needs. Although each training plan will be Vigil driven, each training plan will be unique and individualized.

Bio-Mechanics

Most running related injuries occur due to deficiencies in muscle groups or range of motion. Coach Christian refers directly Anatomy for Runners, written by exercise scientist and bio-mechanic guru Jay Dicharry, to help pin point these deficiencies in his athletes. One of the biggest keys to running faster is simply staying healthy, so we will work on that as well.