By: Seiji Ishii I’m dealing with this right now. I pushed through the weekend because I wanted to feel like I gave everything I had, and now I’m sitting here sick. That wasn’t bad luck. That was the cost. If you use the day as your scoreboard, you’ll make bad decisions. You’ll take a session that was supposed…

By Seiji Ishii If your attention is in the wrong place, it doesn’t matter how fit you are.  There’s a point where more physical work stops being the answer. Not because fitness doesn’t matter, but because something else starts to matter more—where your attention goes when you’re riding. Many riders are putting it in the wrong…

Stacking more plates every week only builds one lane of performance — and motocross doesn’t live in one lane. By Seiji Ishii Just lifting weights and trying to lift more all the time isn’t the whole picture. That’s just force development. The other lanes are tissue tolerance, power (speed of force development), and durability (submaximal contractions over…

By Seiji Ishii We all dream about living the life like Keefer—ride all week, whenever you want, without the weekday masses, then go race on weekends. But you’re not (and if you ask him, that’s not all bad).  You’ve got a job, a family, and a life that doesn’t care about your training plan. The good…

Written By: Seiji Ishii Why “easy motos” when you’re 70% isn’t discipline — it’s delayed progress. In the past, I attended every round of SX. Between Anaheim 1 and Round 2, it seemed like half of the pit crews and riders were coughing. At home, it’s the same pattern: you catch something, you feel 70%, and you…

Written By: Seiji Ishii Most athletes don’t stop training because they get lazy or lose motivation. They stop because the structure that made training automatic disappears. Jobs change. Schedules break. Kids, travel, stress, injuries, or money issues creep in. Suddenly, the plan that worked last season doesn’t fit real life anymore—and training starts to feel like a…

Written By: Seiji Ishi www.coaschseiji.com Base training feels easy because it isn’t the phase where you’re supposed to prove anything—it’s the phase that determines how fit you will be for how long. Every new athlete I work with asks some version of the same question: “Why does this training feel so easy?” Sometimes they ask it directly.…

HRV Didn’t Wreck Your Training — Chasing It Did HRV is supposed to make training smarter. For a lot of athletes, it’s doing the opposite. I’m seeing more riders second-guessing good plans, skipping productive sessions, or spiraling into “what’s wrong with me?” because a single number didn’t look right that morning. HRV isn’t the enemy…