Strength Coach Chronicles – Learn by Doing
I just wrapped up a conference with a good friend of mine, Robert Jacobs. The goal of the conference was to review seasonal approaches to eating, supplementing, and training. The conference was amazing, had a blast, but what I want to talk about here is my training mentality at conferences. I am a business owner, […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Controlling Momentum
In our Collective chat, we had a profound conversation on velocity-based training. My take on it at first was skeptical, but I have since come around. I was quoted as saying, “Weightlifting is about timing, not being timed.” My rationale for it is that if we focus on the rate or quantity, we will be […]
Strength Coach Chronicle – Replacing Key People
Change is inevitable and we need to accept that. I have a motto: good coaches will have opportunities, but bad coaches will not. Find a way to replace the bad and keep the good. One message I discussed in How to Become a Strength Coach was the concept of your evolution as a coach. As a coach, you […]
Strength Coach Chronicles: 2024 in Review
Podcast performance Health Podcast is how I started! It only makes sense I open with the podcast and what we talked about! We did 40 episodes this year broken up over 4 seasons. I shifted from interviewing guests to doing more monologue/roundtable style with Corey Hobbs. Part of the reason for that is I was […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Starting New
I wrote this blog last month, Stay Low and Look Forward. It was a look into the inevitable future for Strength Coaches in November. Change is inevitable and learning to manage that transition is paramount to success. It made me think of starting new. You are either going to a new school, a new level, or […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Stay Low and Look Forward
It is that time of year, the end of October. The leaves turn colors, the air becomes crisper, and text messages “Hey just checking in” start going out. We all know what that text means. It means ‘I might be out of a job, do you know of anything?’ What a nerve-racking part of the […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – 2 Most Important Questions
What are the two most important questions? Well, that kind of depends. How’s that for burying the lead? But there are some foundational characteristics we need to find out when we work with our athletes. One is do they have something to share that will dramatically impact the program? If we can understand more by […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Doing HIT with James LaValle
If you are unfamiliar with HIT (High-Intensity Training), you should be. It was invented by Arthur Jones and perfected by Mike Mentzer, Ellington Darden, Kim Wood, Casey Viator, Boyer Coe, and Dorian Yates. The central theme is the training economy—getting more from less. I had the great opportunity to go through a classic HIT workout […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – 3 Lessons in 20 Years
It is my twentieth year as an S&C coach: I have had one high school job, four internships, one grad assistant, two assistant strength coach jobs, one head coach job, and two businesses. I have been fired twice and been passed over for jobs an innumerable amount of times. I have moved a lot. I […]
Strength Coach Chonicles – Digital Training
Set-Up: I know a lot of S&C coaches are interested in developing an online coaching program. I am going to spend some time talking about this over the next couple of weeks. I have been doing a ton of digital/remote-based training this past. year. I primarily function in two capacities: one as a manager and […]