I am in EN member, Been training with them 2 years good progress.
1st IM 2008 - Wisconsin 11:33hrs
2nd IM 2009 - Canada 10:57.
Positives of the program:
- Fits busy lifetsyle, my max week for IM training was 17hrs.
- Really good team atmosphere/community you get to learn off stronger athelete.
- Coaches really know there stuff and are awesome people.
- Programs hang well togther.
- Cost.
- Education podcasts and Ebooks are second to none.
-vs of program
- You have to have a power meter and Garmin these are expensive to get set up. I would not use EN if you don't have a power meter.
- No swimming or weights in the offseason and I found the swimming program during IM season plans to be sub-standard and paid a coach to re-write them, my swimming has decreased year on year with EN. (This ties in with low hours listed in the above)
- Doing your marathon will be a detriment to your training. Strongly recommend you don't it.
- Size of community is growing up to 500+ athelete's which means interaction from coach's is very limited remember this is a self coached option.
- You have to be very durable in running in my opinion to execute the running, lot of hard running. But that makes you fast. A lot of less fit body comp challenged atlete's seemed to get injured this year.
Any other questions PM me.
Edited by jamesG 2009-09-16 7:35 AM