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Coaching for Injured Runners
Structured indoor cycling that protects your fitness while you heal and gets you back to running ready.
Most runners notice improvements in how training feels within the first few weeks as load, recovery, and execution become better aligned. Race performance typically improves over the following months as fitness compounds and preparation becomes more specific.
You’ll improve more than with a standard training plan because training is adjusted continuously to your strengths, limitations, and response to load.
But the real advantage of coaching is that performance improvements go beyond your next A-race, because decisions are made to achieve your full potential over the long term.
Start by signing up to online coaching.
Then I’ll send you an email to ask about your training background, race goal, and current challenges. I’ll review your information and then we will start training toward your goal with individualized coaching.
If you have any questions before you commit to coaching you can write me an email to: sandro@runningfront.com
Then I’ll send you an email to ask about your training background, race goal, and current challenges. I’ll review your information and then we will start training toward your goal with individualized coaching.
If you have any questions before you commit to coaching you can write me an email to: sandro@runningfront.com
Smart Training While You Heal
Built around your injury
Every plan starts from your diagnosis and what your physio has cleared you to do, never a one size fits all template. The training fits exactly where your recovery is right now.
Adjusts as you heal
Your plan moves through clear phases: hold your fitness through the acute stage, rebuild as you are cleared, then transition back toward running. It evolves as you do.
A real coach, not an app
Weekly check-ins, feedback on your sessions, and adjustments whenever something flares or changes. You are not following a generic program alone, you have someone in it with you.
A clear path back to running
Everything is timed so that the day you are cleared, your fitness is intact and the return to running is a ramp you climb, not a wall you hit.
Coach Sandro Sket
NSCA-Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
Hi, I’m Sandro. A runner who couldn’t run.
In 2023, an accident injured the cartilage in my ankle that took running away from me. Instead of losing the fitness I’d built over years in endurance sport, I rebuilt it on the bike, and learned how to keep an athlete strong when their legs can’t take the impact.
That’s what comeback coaching is. I coach runners for a living, so I know what you’re trying to protect. As an NSCA-Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, I’ll keep your fitness alive through the injury and hand you back to the road ready to run. I work alongside your physio, not in place of them. They fix the injury. I keep you an athlete while they do.
Sandro Sket, CSCS
Hi, I’m Sandro. A runner who couldn’t run.
In 2023, an accident injured the cartilage in my ankle that took running away from me. Instead of losing the fitness I’d built over years in endurance sport, I rebuilt it on the bike, and learned how to keep an athlete strong when their legs can’t take the impact.
That’s what comeback coaching is. I coach runners for a living, so I know what you’re trying to protect. As an NSCA-Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, I’ll keep your fitness alive through the injury and hand you back to the road ready to run. I work alongside your physio, not in place of them. They fix the injury. I keep you an athlete while they do.
NSCA-Certified S&C Coach
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists® (CSCS®) are professionals who apply scientific knowledge to train athletes for the primary goal of improving athletic performance. They conduct sport-specific testing sessions, design and implement safe and effective strength training and conditioning programs and provide guidance regarding nutrition and injury prevention. Recognizing that their area of expertise is separate and distinct, CSCSs consult with and refer athletes to other professionals when appropriate.
NSCA-Certified S&C Coach
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists® (CSCS®) are professionals who apply scientific knowledge to train athletes for the primary goal of improving athletic performance. They conduct sport-specific testing sessions, design and implement safe and effective strength training and conditioning programs and provide guidance regarding nutrition and injury prevention.
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists (CSCSs) are professionals who apply scientific knowledge to train athletes for the primary goal of improving athletic performance. They design and implement safe and effective strength training and conditioning programs.
What Athletes Are Saying
Sandro’s expertise and attention to detail has helped me improve more than I had thought possible. Through his online coaching, I broke my 20 year 5K PR by 21 sec to 15:48. And with his plan, I was able to break my HM PR by almost 4 min to 1:14:29.
Shai Birmaher
United States
Sandro’s very well thought out coaching has assisted my running greatly, being able to fit my runs around the changing hours I work with my job. I am certain I would not have managed a 2:58 marathon PB at 45 years old without Sandro’s coaching.
Richard Leary
New Zealand
Following the competitive marathon plan helped me reach a new PR with a first place overall finish in 2:39:37 on a hilly course. Sandro’s scientific approach ensures that every run and workout has a purpose, arriving at the starting line fit, healthy, and fresh.
James Mount
United States
Online Coaching
with coach Sandro Sket, CSCS
1. Tell me about your injury
Share your diagnosis, your physio’s clearance, and your goals.
2. Set up your training platform
Create a free account on FinalSurge and add me as your coach.
3. Train with purpose, come back ready
Get your custom plan and coach feedback on every session.
Comeback Coaching
with Sandro Sket, CSCS
$
199
/Month
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Full assessment and intake to start
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Custom plan built around your injury
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Training aligned with your physio's clearance
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Weekly coach check-ins
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Feedback on all your sessions
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Unlimited adjustments as you heal
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A structured path back to running
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Email support within 24 hrs
Start Coaching
Not sure it's right for you? If the first two weeks aren't a fit, I'll refund you. No questions asked.
All coaching and communication is handled directly by me, Sandro Sket. I don’t outsource coaching or hand athletes off to assistants. When you’re training around an injury, the plan has to keep adjusting to your recovery and to what your physio has cleared you to do, and that kind of attention only works with direct, personal involvement. To keep that quality, I take on a limited number of athletes at a time.
Yes. Coaching is billed in 4-week blocks, and you’re free to stop whenever you’re ready. There are no long-term contracts or upfront commitments. Most injured runners stay until they’re cleared to run, simply because the plan has to keep adapting as you heal, but how long that takes is up to your recovery, not a contract.
Absolutely. Coaching runners is what I do full time. I’ve coached runners of all levels since 2013, which is exactly why I understand what you’re trying to protect while you’re hurt. You can see that side of my work at RunningFront.com, and when you’re cleared to run again, the handoff back to run training is seamless.
Coaching starts with understanding your injury, what your physio has cleared you to do, your training history, and the running goals you’re working back toward. I build your training around that context and adjust it continuously based on how you respond and how your recovery progresses.
Your training is reviewed regularly using your training log data and your feedback in the comments. Based on that, I update sessions week to week to manage load, progression, and recovery, so the work keeps protecting what’s healing while building your fitness.
Every session comes with clear instructions and can be sent to your watch or head unit for execution.
Training is delivered through FinalSurge, and your plan and sessions all live in one place. I send a coach-led review every Sunday, and you can reach out to me any time questions come up during the week.
The first result is the one that matters most when you’re hurt: within the first week or two, training stops feeling aimless. You have a clear plan, you know each session is safe for your injury, and you can see you’re holding onto your fitness instead of watching it slip away.
Over the following weeks, that fitness stays protected and even builds where your injury allows, so you’re not losing the base you spent years constructing. The progress is measurable in your data, not just a feeling.
The real result comes when you’re cleared to run. Because your fitness was maintained the whole way through, your return is a ramp rather than a restart, and you come back far closer to where you left off than you would have by resting and hoping.
It’s simple. Send me an email about your running background, your injury, and where your recovery is right now. I’ll look at your situation and your training, and outline how I’d help you hold onto your fitness and get back to running.
If we’re a good fit, we can get started right away. Questions before you commit? Email me any time at sandro@cyclingfront.com