endurance coaching, shaped for you

We are great believers that every athlete has different needs, so their training programmes should be different, too. Our goal is to ensure that your work, lifestyle and training are all ‘InBalance’.

InBalance Coaching

InBalance Coaching is situated in the stunning countryside of North-West Herefordshire. With extensive experience in both coaching and competing in endurance events, Ed uses his expertise to help athletes realise their dreams, whether it is to complete their first triathlon or achieve a personal best.

What We Do

COACHING

Through 1-1 coaching and weekly communication, plans are fine-tuned to complement lifestyle commitments and assess progress towards your unique goals.

FACILITIES

Train year-round in the endless pool, perfect your technique on the 5km cross-country trail, and build strength with a range of modern gym equipment.

CAMPS & EVENTS

Along with coaching, InBalance hosts triathlon and swim training camps in Lanzarote, and 5k and 10k trail races at their base in Herefordshire.

SWIM SMOOTH

InBalance head coach, Ed is a certified Swim Smooth coach. Swim Smooth have created a unique methodology that seeks to simplify the complexity of improving freestyle swimming for all abilities and levels.

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Our Athletes' Stories

"Ed carried out a thorough injury history, and as the months went on we had regular video and face-to-face meetings, adjusting weekly plans depending on any last minute diary changes, niggles or injuries"

Geoff
Patagonman Extreme Tri

"Ed constantly worked on adjusting my program, including changes around a very busy work and personal travel schedule"

Glaxton
Ironman Vitoria-Gasteiz

“I couldn’t recommend Ed more highly – we learnt and achieved an enormous amount working together and it’s been a fantastic journey! Ed also provided a huge amount of emotional support, giving me confidence even when training or racing hadn’t gone exactly to plan.”

Francesca
European Tri Champion

"Ed has been a fantastic coach and helped me achieve my goal of running a sub 3 hour marathon in Paris. Ed built a training plan that fit well into my busy work schedule and along with regular catch ups, this kept me motivated and my training consistent despite the challenges that training in the Scottish Highlands in winter threw at me."

Jake
Paris Marathon

"From the first call with Ed saying we needed to get to know each other and make sure that we could work together, I knew Ed’s ethos was going to be a fit. Ed had more confidence in my ability than I did, but every test showed he was right and the B races showed impressive results. Ed got me to the Outlaw Full, no injuries or illness and worked with me on a pace and nutrition plans."

Tony
Outlaw Full Distance

“Archie and I cycled on a tandem from Lands End to John O’Groats, covering 1000 miles. Ed was extremely helpful in preparing us for this challenge. He first of all questioned us on our current fitness levels, our goals and previous experience. With this he made a detailed tailored training programme. This included bike training, strength and conditioning exercises, and nutritional guidance."

Ned & Archie
Lands End -> John O'Groats

Tim, Swansea 70.3, Outlaw Half and Outlaw Full

During the last 3 years I have received personalised triathlon specific coaching from Ed. Ed gathered a detailed sports/activity/health/injury history from me so he could provide a specific program tailored to my individual training needs, some of which are fairly complex due to long standing injuries with left shoulder and chronic tendonitis in my lower legs. Of particular concern was my inability to swim freestyle for more than about 100m and my recurring tendonitis that can periodically flare up with little to no warning. Ed recommended a 6 day per week protocol as I agreed that this was achievable with my family and work commitments (young family and job that requires lots of international travel), which is a very important consideration for anyone wishing to embark on an endurance-based training regime. My program is split into 2 runs, 2 swims, 2 bike sessions per week which is optimal for me as I require additional recovery time from the running to avoid overuse injuries in my lower legs. To compliment these core activities Ed also included regular yoga/mobility to help improve range of motion in my hips, shoulders, ankles. I took care of my own strength training as I was already experienced in this area, aiming for 3 sessions per week split into upper body push, lower body, upper body pull. Training blocks were split into 6 weeks, gradually building volume or intensity (depending on which training phase I’m in) finishing with a 1-week recovery. This system proved to be very effective as my fitness metrics improved gradually week by week whilst minimising risk of overtraining. All of this information is available on an app called Training Peaks which Ed uses, this ensures you can easily keep track of your training diary, view trend over time data for key metrics like fitness scores, training load, recovery scores, training zones, speed/time/distance etc. Following this system has enabled me to improve all aspects of triathlon, in particular my swimming, I can now swim a full ironman distance (slow but is a significant improvement on not being able to swim over 100m freestyle). I also completed my first full distance Triathlon which has been my ultimate goal since working with ED and have signed up to more Ironman’s (half and full distance) this year.

Tim