Coaching & planning · Coaching
Limiters and blind spots
What “working on your limiters” means and how blind spots show up in your plan.
Nightly analysis looks for limiters — the constraints most likely holding back your race or health goal — and blind spots that show up even in experienced athletes.
What limiters are
Limiters are coach-facing diagnoses with evidence in plain language. Examples of themes you might see:
- Aerobic base inefficiency on longer efforts
- Bike power relative to race demands
- Underweighted run or thin swim volume
- Too much gray-zone (middle) intensity
- Run speed lagging a goal time
Detection cutoffs are proprietary. What you need to know: when a limiter is active, Brick biases upcoming work toward fixing it — and may extend Base when aerobic foundation is the issue.
Blind spots
Blind spots call out missing pieces: no long sessions, no strength, monotone volume, and similar patterns that quiet data can hide. They are coaching nudges, not punishments.
Where you see them
Plan overview surfaces current limiters. Morning briefs and chat can reference them when explaining why a week emphasizes certain work.
How to respond
- Trust the emphasis for a block before rewriting the season by hand.
- Fix data quality first — wrong thresholds or missing longs look like limiters.
- Recalibrate or update training focus if your goal truly changed. Plan and recalibrate.
