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One of my longest swims in years (outside of Ironman) https://insidethebigring.org/blog/2018/8/23/podcast-selecting-my-coach-for-imwi-2019 monthly 0.5 2018-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1535032247984-DEZSVZHQVLUI30XXHSLY/61063_550481475398_806719_n.jpg Blog - Podcast: Selecting My Coach For IMWI 2019 IRONMAN WISCONSIN 2010 AND MY KONA QUALIFING RACE https://insidethebigring.org/blog/2018/7/18/door-county-half-distance monthly 0.5 2018-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1531938299189-QTPCKVKIROMUTBROTDU4/IMG_9321+2.JPG Blog - Door County Half Distance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1531938350284-TRAK61VAGON2HJFHKIAY/Screen+Shot+2018-07-18+at+9.56.11+AM.png Blog - Door County Half Distance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1531938386926-H40YKEEZROLD8HSHYQDB/Screen+Shot+2018-07-18+at+10.00.56+AM.png Blog - Door County Half Distance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1531938459674-H0PBPABZEPWYXOOBLFR9/37273148_1780766795325714_8098487632079618048_o.jpg Blog - Door County Half Distance https://insidethebigring.org/blog/2018/7/18/lake-mills-and-elkhart-lake-triathlon-recap monthly 0.5 2018-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1531938231365-S3MUP863FRM7HAELP02R/JCR_5860.jpg Blog - Lake Mills and Elkhart Lake Triathlon Recap https://insidethebigring.org/blog/2018/7/18/a-year-without-an-ironman monthly 0.5 2018-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1532455504614-R6380TEUJT5OF486BIN1/MJO_0791.jpg Blog - A Year Without an Ironman https://insidethebigring.org/blog/2018/7/18/how-im-tackling-this-off-season monthly 0.5 2018-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1532455574317-7TTUF9S6MJX5MXM2JHXG/DTK_2064.jpg Blog - How I’m Tackling This Off Season https://insidethebigring.org/about-steve daily 0.75 2021-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586892147340-BDQS1R17X5KYUTM74JZ2/12697193_10100258188377068_7762727872314313159_o.jpg About Steve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586533792070-USMV4Y4FCVOD55O4PJAS/DSC_0749.jpg About Steve My best moment ever during a triathlon! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586902110169-IEKABC94CO7LM883SJ9B/IMG_7421.JPG About Steve Steve having fun at a local Cyclocross race! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1497557709706-AZRWMS8XCGG14P1DT2EF/image-asset.jpeg About Steve Steve is co-coach at Madison Multisport. If you're in Madison and looking for coaching, contact us and we will help you out. Swim lessons, OWS 1:1 Sessions, Weekly Group Training, Training Consultations. https://insidethebigring.org/home daily 1.0 2025-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586895091776-IQ1T91KPOAVYKRRV4K68/DSC_9884.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/7307ea22-6173-4629-82c2-b3ef04309fe4/Flat+Banner+%283%29.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1dbccf92-ac76-4e25-a7a7-d678b58c04a5/862415_1131_0022.jpg Home - Become A Faster Cyclist Faster cycling is a game of patience, consistency, HARD workouts, the right intensity and volumes at the right time. You have to improve your endurance (LT1), FTP, and power at Vo2 Max. These are all metrics you should be training. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586522059107-JUVLAXNF5C6P5IB1UGB2/IMG_20190810_182807.jpg Home - COACHING & CONSULTATIONS Coaching isn’t about providing workouts every week. It is about forming relationships, increasing accountability, adjusting to the athlete’s ever-changing lifestyle, and communicating on a continuous basis. Endurance coaching is the best way to transform yourself as an athlete. Consultations are on a per-hour basis, where we talk about your training, and you can ask questions regarding any topic related to swim, bike, run, or nutrition. Maybe your training has plateaued and you need a second opinion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/81d636a0-4fdd-4fdd-9518-ac5d8f0a3117/SteveWindTunnel.JPG Home - PODCAST The purpose of Inside The Big Ring is to provide listeners with wide range topics such as training topics and trends, implementable ideas in your own training, interviews with top professional athletes, coaches, and top age-group athletes. If you want to learn more about improving yourself as an athlete, start listening now! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586520877024-3DRGNET2EYP659SUAJ8I/DSC_0598.jpg Home - ABOUT COACH STEVE Steve is a husband, father, dog owner, business owner, avid reader, and lover of Kenyan coffee. Steve has been a full-time endurance coach for over 10 years who loves working with every type of athlete. Steve has coached the USA Triathlon Overall Female Age Group Champion at USA Triathlon Nationals, the Overall Female Age Group Champion at IRONMAN WISCONSIN, an ITU Age Group World Champion, Multiple IRONMAN and 70.3 World Championship qualifiers. *Finishline Photo by Focal Flame Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586520535608-Q1DEKW8EBPTA0O6V5DLO/DSC_0828.JPG Home - TRAINING BLOG Check out Coach Steve’s blog where he writes more in-depth on his own training, key workouts, athlete breakdown where he show cases how he trains his athlete, race reports, DOs and DONT’s of training. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/0ffd0aa1-e737-40cc-81fe-d676953f79d4/Metabolic+Fingerprint.png Home - INSCYD TESTING If you are looking for a test that helps you know which way to direct your training? Do you need more vo2 max intervals? Do you need more Threshold intervals? More Zone 2 and Fat Max? Take the guess work out of which intervals are most effective for you! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586795274084-ZY4CPDMN351GZIU6HS7J/Screen+Shot+2020-04-13+at+11.20.13+AM.png Home - TrainingPeaks Contributor Coach Steve has been privileged to contribute to TraningPeak’s content blog on various topics: Swim, bike, and run training. Click on the image to open the article. More articles linked at the bottom of the website. https://insidethebigring.org/ironman-wisconsin-camp daily 0.75 2017-11-06 https://insidethebigring.org/imwi-simulation-day daily 0.75 2017-11-06 https://insidethebigring.org/zwiftrides daily 0.75 2020-03-22 https://insidethebigring.org/ironman-wisconsin daily 0.75 2025-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1532619439190-Z9A452W7T0KDF3FF95JE/RCT01218.jpg Blog I hope you enjoy reading about my journey of balancing life, training, and work during my build to 2019 Ironman Wisconsin. The goal of this blog is for everyone to learn from my training, mistakes, and hopefully motivated! 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For the first few years I really didn’t “get it” and probably missed half of my weekly sessions. And I often modified the sessions I did do. While I was getting better just by virtue of being new to the sport, I never felt really prepared and never achieved my racing goals. When I finally buckled down and focused on consistency and doing each workout Steve assigned me without going off script, I really started to see the results come through, and ultimately qualified for AG Worlds and 70.3 Worlds, and was ranked #1 in the Aquabike. It’s cliche to say “trust your coach, trust the process,” but man it is so true. Preparation is more about getting in every session than about getting in any one specific session.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586532994815-T2FJT6UPJVD69LWOXX28/BradPlan.png Coaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586532369546-6WFYBM2AQA8502YYUBED/JeffTPage.jpg Coaching Prior to becoming one of Steve’s athletes, I was a middle of my age group self-coached triathlete. After two years of making minimal gains in long course triathlon, I knew I needed a change. The improvement in my racing was immediate, placing 8th in my age group and first sub 11hour for IM-Wisconsin, almost :30 faster than the year prior. This year’s coaching has led to podiums at both races. 2nd at Madison 70.3 and 4th at IM-Wisconsin (10:39). Steve coaches me remotely and is always in constant contact with me and my training. His ability to communicate and direct my training is done with a great knowledge base and a touch of humor. It’s been 3 years since I’ve started training with Steve and looking forward to seeing how far I can succeed with his guidance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586532845878-7WDKZ11S8WLH3HM6JTZ0/JeffTPlan.jpg Coaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586532385341-HIKJ2ZQWJLOGKHSO7U3M/LisaTPage.jpeg Coaching I was completing races but I reached a point where improvements were minimal, and I needed help with breaking inner obstacles. Steve assisted with taking my experiences, skills, and abilities, and turned my goals into reality. I went from performing in the upper half of my age group to the top of my age group. He was helpful with setting realistic high-level goals and guided me along the way. When I need extra support, he is readily available. Even though he coaches me from a different location, I am able to put in the training, while Steve watches closely from a distance. Steve has helped me with becoming a competitor and setting higher goals for myself than I would have ever done on my own. I benefit from having a race plan laid out for me, so that I can do my favorite part of the process, training. The structured realistic plan works for me as a full-time school counselor. I am able to complete all of my training before my workday. He is awesome at monitoring my training stress, so I can continue in all other aspects of my life. I look forward to my journey to the top and credit Steve Brandes!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1586532966732-BL0VO5SICOLB85J6BOMP/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+10.35.46+AM.png Coaching https://insidethebigring.org/inscyd daily 0.75 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1628596701114-28Z37AJ6PJUA0H7LSC6E/000.png INSCYD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1628596745450-SAM6KE0K5VX2LCEMXPHU/001.png INSCYD - FTP-Functional Threshold Power FTP is a very important metric for endurance athletes. It helps set up training and racing ranges. It helps identify when an athlete improves. It helps show year-to-year progression. . Training FTP isn’t as easy as it’s made out to be. As athletes progress in their careers, the ability to see the improvements we saw when starting out becomes more difficult. The training, intervals, and progressions need to become more accurate. INSCYD testing helps us identify which “knobs” to turn to see growth in your FTP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1628596809153-OTVTGFIRACTWP65L1RWG/003.png INSCYD - Fueling is critical for success Too many times as a coach, friend, student of the sport I’ve witnessed the same mistake from athletes. They train hard, they dedicate so much time, passion, and energy towards their BIG race to only fall short because of a nutrition error. Too many or too few calories, carbs, sodium, and liquid. Too little or too much sodium. Hot or cold weather races? All of these things can be calculated How many calories do you burn at 75% FTP? How many grams of Carbs do you burn at 70% FTP? We can get an accurate count to develop a fueling plan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1628596933417-JQU0S5NEYX0QNDRLKCIP/Metabolic+Fingerprint.png INSCYD - What type of athlete are you? Once you complete the INSCYD testing (Zwift and TrainerRoad options) which consists of 4 different interval lengths. We then get a blueprint of your strengths and weakness and knowing which “knob to turn" to see the biggest improvements. Since testing my athletes, this has been a game-changer for seeing results quicker and improving race performances, especially IRONMAN and 70.3 performances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1630361394251-R77DY1A0H468T1C2XNJO/Danjan2.jpeg INSCYD - The best of the best use INSCYD Dan Lorang, Jan Frodeno, Anne Haug, David Tilbury David, Lionel Sanders, Jumbo-Visma Pro Cycling Team, Wout van Aert, Mathieu van der Poel All these coaches, athletes, and teams utilize the INSCYD software to remove the guesswork in their preperation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940348d725e252076c34ded/1630362746533-A3UGHZP8OOZQRM708OYU/ZWIFT-guide3.jpeg INSCYD - How INSCYD Testing Works Step 1: Athletes are sent a testing protocol to perform inside or outside Step 2: Coach uploads the training file to the INSCYD software, creating the most complete and accurate metabolic profile. 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