Endurance · HYROX, triathlon, marathon
THE MOTOR
Race-specific conditioning – planned, boring, relentless. You won't enjoy Zone 2, you'll remember the intervals, and the whole thing peaks on race day instead of six weeks before it.
Sina Pagel
No Secrets. Just Repetition.
Who I am
80% is in your head.
That's true on my start line. It's true on yours.
If you've ever fallen apart in the last stretch of something hard and it wasn't your legs that gave up first, you already know discipline breaks before fitness does. I'm Sina – 26, German, training twice most days, and sign up to more HYROX competitions than I can count. In September I run both a Half Ironman and a Marathon. My programme isn't from a textbook, I'm in it every week. I coach a small group of people who want to get shit done and don't need me to pretend every session felt good.
Sina Pagel High-performance coach, remote
- Two sessions most days
- Six races this season
- Berlin Marathon, September
- Half Ironman, same month
My Approach
It's never just the legs.
My coaching programme builds the same three things, whether you're chasing your first HYROX or your first Ironman.
Strength · wherever you train
THE STRENGTH
Strength that survives contact with fatigue – lifting that holds your form together late in a race, not just in a fresh set on a Tuesday. Built around your travel, not against it.
Mindset · the 80%
THE HEAD
The part almost nobody trains: pacing when it hurts, self-talk you'd actually believe, and the exact minute in a race where people give up. We rehearse that minute until it's boring.
01 04
How I do it
Do it anyway.
Four steps, always in this order. None of it's secret, and none of it feels good the first time.
An honest baseline
We test before we plan: motor, strength, movement, sleep, what you eat on a normal week, not a good one. No flattery in the numbers – a real starting point is more useful than a nice one.
Train the tired state
Racing isn't a fresh effort, it's a tired one. So we train tired on purpose – legs already gone, breathing wrong, form under threat. You find out what's still there when nothing feels available.
Do it anyway
Your programme has to survive a delayed flight, a launch week, and a bad night's sleep. Sessions shrink instead of disappearing, and the rules hold even when you don't feel like it. Motivation was never part of the plan.
The last 20%
Race day is rehearsed, not hoped for: pacing, fuelling, the moment it goes wrong, and what you do in the 90 seconds after. By the start line, none of it's new.
Who this is for
Athletes with ambitious goals.
High standards and high vibes.
Yes
- You want to get shit done and you're sick of doing it solo.
- You're already fit, and it's annoying you that you've stopped improving.
- There's a date in your calendar that scares you a bit.
- You want someone to hold the line exactly when you're about to talk yourself out of it.
No
- You want a plan in your inbox and nobody checking if you did it.
- You want to be told the session was great when it wasn't.
- You negotiate with your own rules and call it flexibility.
- Weight loss is the whole goal – plenty of coaches are better suited to that than me.
Pricing
Three ways to train together.
Single sessions
SLED PUSH
€240 per session · block of four €880
One session, one job. Bring the thing that keeps breaking – your pacing, the station you fall apart on, the plan you abandon in week three – and leave with the fix.
- 90 minutes, in Berlin or on video
- Movement and engine screen first time
- Written debrief within 24 hours
- One follow-up thread with me
Fitted around existing clients Book a session →
My usual recommendation
Monthly
ROXZONE
€980 per month · rolling, cancel with 30 days
Named after the transition zone – because that's where races get lost. Weekly programming, weekly eyes on your training, for someone already training seriously.
- Programming rewritten weekly around your real calendar
- Two coaching calls a month
- Check-ins Monday to Saturday – you send the work, I answer
- Race-week taper and pacing plan
I only run a handful of these at once Ask if there's a spot →
Twelve weeks
PROJECT SUB-60
€4,800 in full · or three payments of €1,700
The whole thing. Twelve weeks, one target, no ambiguity about what you're doing on any given day. For the person who's decided that this is the year.
- Testing day in Berlin to set the real baseline
- Twelve-week block, rebuilt weekly as you adapt
- Weekly call, plus one session a month in person
- Final test day, so it ends in evidence
Runs a few times a year Apply for the programme →
- In person or remote. The retainer is rolling, 30 days' notice, and the twelve weeks is a commitment on purpose.
- Euro, invoiced from Berlin. Coaching in English or German.
Application
Tell me what you're chasing.
A short form saves us both a call that goes nowhere. I read every one myself and get back to you within two days – even the noes, with a reason.
- SLED PUSH
- €240
- ROXZONE
- €980
- PROJECT SUB-60
- €4,800
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