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Robb Beams - Head Coach & Founder of the Complete Training and racing Solutions Program
Education and Experience:
Twenty-four years as a human performance coach and instructor
University of Central Florida; started the Masters Degree Program in Exercise Physiology
University of Central Florida; BS in Human Resource Management, Minor Computer Science
Founder of the Complete Racing Solutions Program
Founder of the Complete Training Solutions Program
Founder of the MotoEndurance Training Facility
Previously Certified Licensed Massage Therapist
Previously Level 2 Certified USAT Coach
Previously Certified ACE Personal Trainer
Human Performance Coach for the Fleet Feet Orlando Running Program
Human Performance Coach for Toyota TMX Moving Forward Program
Human Performance Coach for the Solivista Pro Mountain Bike Team
Human Performance Coach for the DMXS radio program
Human Performance Coach for the ICS Athletics Program
Human Performance Coach for the ACYS Athletic Program
Guest Speaker on the Golf Channel
Published contributor to Racer X online
Published contributor to Racer X Virtual Trainer
Published contributor and weekly contributor to GNCC.com online
Published contributor to Hammer Nutrition’s Endurance News
Published contributor to Triathlete Magazine
Contributor to Shape Magazine
Featured in FLMX Magazine
Featured in Racer X's - 5 Minutes With Interview
Instructor for USAT’s coaching and educational department
Instructor for the education classes for Bay Care Health Care Systems in Tampa, Florida
Robb’s Personal Running Records
5k: 17:14/5:33 pace
10k: 38:11/6:09 pace
Half Marathon: 1:20/6:07 pace
Robb’s Racing Results:
1997 USAT – Siesta Key Triathlon/Overall Age Group Champion
1997 USAT – BOSS Triathlon/4th Overall Elite
1997 USAT – Escape from Ft. Desoto Triathlon/Overall Age Group Champion
1997 USAT – Jacksonville Fine Arts Series Triathlon/Overall Age Group Champion
1992 USAT – Panama City Half Ironman Triathlon/8th Overall Age Group
1992 USAT – Seratoma Triathlon/7th Overall Elite
1991 USAT – St. Anthony's Triathlon/2nd Overall Age Group
1990 USAT – Central Florida Triathlon Series Age Group Champion
1989 USAT – Track Shack Triathlon Age Group Champion
1987 IBMXF BMX – Professional World Ranking #8
1985 NBL BMX – Amateur Nationally Ranked #8
1984 NBL BMX – Amateur Nationally Ranked #15
1984 NBL BMX – Amateur State Ranked #1
As I work with more and more young racers, I realized that they are going through the exact same challenges that I did as a young rider. I was overweight and not fast on the track, I committed to changing all of this once and for all. Coach Robb's story on how he changed this situation around...
I was twelve years old. I was entering the sixth grade thirty pounds overweight and burdened with the knowledge that this would be a pivotal year. I was old enough to know that I was considerably overweight and aware enough that my friends and, worse, girls had noticed too. Gone were the days of simplicity dependant only upon who had the best baseball card that week or who would adorn this month's cover of BMX Action. Things were getting complicated and I knew Ocean Pacific didn't make chords for guys my size. Things had to change. Up until now only my stepbrothers had noticed and seemed to enjoy harassing me continuously but I'd dealt with their verbal assaults before. However, the relational shift in my friendships as well as the potential disinterest of all those amazing sixth grade girls in my class would have to be headed off.
Leaving the musty Teague Middle School locker room, adorned in my required bright red physical education shorts (youth XXL) with coordinating Teague Tiger t-shirt , I joined the crowd of sixth graders awaiting the coaches and our PE lesson for the day. In walks this sandy brown haired dude with broad shoulders and a clip board. His name was Coach Lauters and after a brief introduction and a few guidelines put in place to keep us and the county public school system safe, he mentions... "By the way, I'll be here in the gym every morning at 6:00 am, Monday through Friday, if anyone wants to join the weight lifting club." Providence. Plan and simple this was it! I went home, took a long hard look at the clothes hanging in my closet and knew in my soul they would never fit well ever again. They never did.
I am injured, frustrated and bored - what can Complete Racing Solutions do for me?
Over the last nineteen years, I have had the opportunity to train with racers of all ability levels. Some of the racers were million dollar racers that I could watch race on my television on the weekend! But ironically, nine out of ten of these racers are no longer competing. In my journey to "learn from the best", I noticed a consistent theme amongst all of these racers, they were frequently injured, frustrated and not enjoying the career of a lifetime - and I was becoming one of them.
My big eye opener occurred May 3, 1992 when I woke up at 4:30am for a morning workout so frustrated and tired, I literally showed the alarm clock through my wall next to my bed. After I pulled my hand out of the wall, I sat up on the side of my bed and asked myself what I was doing to myself in the name of performance. I was doing everything "the other racers were doing" but nothing seemed to be working out correctly. I was weighing my food, hadn't had any simple sugars in two years and still was not as lean as I wanted to be. I couldn't break through any speed barriers no matter how many more speed sets I incorporated into my weekly schedule. If I was doing everything by the book, where were my big performances - why all the performance plateaus? My temporary break ended up lasting five years before I had the desire to establish some training, racing and personal goals for the 1997 racing season.
During this five year sabbatical, and some painful soul searching, I wanted to determine how I got myself into this situation (the first step as they say is realizing you have a problem - I get that now!). I went back and looked at my training logs -they were perfectly maintained of course, and realized that I had lost sight of what worked for me early on in my athletic career. I was pulled into that vortex that other racers were more interested in making themselves look good at the expense of me. These workouts lead to riding sessions that were too high on the intensity scale, too long in duration and occurred to frequently during the week which lead to obvious overtraining symptoms that I disregarded. My vicious cycle of overtraining lead to bad biomechanics which then lead to exercising in pain most of the time, but I "Had to hold pace" was my mindset and justification of training through the pain.
It wasn't until I looked at my training program prior to joining "the fast guys" that I realized that what I needed to do was to listen to my body and allow adequate time to absorb my workouts. When I looked at the racers that had longevity in my sport (triathlon at the time), where the athletes that trained by themselves a lot of time and followed the feedback that their body gave them. I can honestly say that today, if I am tired - I sleep. If I am hungry - I eat. I am now faster at 42 than I was at 29, not just in regards to human performance, but I am not faster asleep than I was at 42 because I am balanced and healthy.
I am looking forward to helping you create this balance, health and longevity in your personal endeavors without the negative side effects of injury or burn out!
If you have began a program only to get injured, bored, frustrated and even dropped out, learn how Coach Robb's Complete Racing Solutions program will keep you Injury Free, Motivated and constantly achieving the goals you established for yourself!
Will your Complete Racing Solutions work for me? Robb's research quest beg...
At the age of 14, I decided to pursue a career in BMX racing at a national level. In an attempt to improve my strength, endurance, flexibility and nutrition, I pedaled my racing red Schwinn to every book store and library within a ten mile radius of my home. I was in desperate need of resources to build the best program possible and in turn become the best racer in the country. Over the next two years, through an exhaustive search, the only information available was linked to an author selling a book, an expensive meal replacement plan, miracle drinks and/or bars or a magical protein powder that would build muscle in record time. Everyone was out to sell me something. I didn't want to buy anything. I just wanted to learn how to best get lean, build muscle and have the energy to race without tiring. In 1982, after a three year search, I had increased my personal library of resources to one book published by a professional BMX racer. Although interesting and informative, it certainly didn't provide any insight on how to improve as an athlete from the inside out. I was hungry to learn how much protein to eat to increase lean muscle tissue, how to maximize my power output, and I needed to discover the secrets of endurance.
It was at this time I completed a scientific study on a specimen of one. With two very detailed parents having set a fine example, I made the decision to record everything. I recorded each and everything I ate and the intensity and length of each workout. I also took constant measurements of my body and how it adapted, good or bad, to the exercise and nutrition I subjected it to. In a period of six months I had recorded more data and information than I had been able to locate in the books available to me in the bookstores and libraries of central Florida.
In 1990 I was granted an opportunity to travel to Colorodo Springs and visit the U.S. Olympic Training Center. There my body and abilities were tested under the supervision of several triathlon human performance coaches from around the world. Here I was able to test the data I had collected and compare it against the expertise of these coaches with countless years of education and personal experience. They were more than accommodating and not only provided me with state of the art physiological testing but allowed me to present the information I had gathered through my own research, adjusting my conclusions where necessary for optimum performance and personal athletic results. We adjusted my techniques to reduce injury and consequent pain, altered my diet to increase lean muscle and shed unwanted excess body fat, and created an effective training schedule to avoid the burn out usually associated with long term endurance training.
Because of this experience, I am now forty two years old and can still enjoy the health benefits of training and racing with my clients and now my two growing boys!
