Strength Coach Chronicles – Career Procrastination
This has become a common thread for S&C coaches I have been interacting with lately: going the long, hard road of becoming a S&C coach is the only way. I find that young aspiring strength coaches are fixated on going ridiculous lengths to becoming a strength coach. They do this while having little understanding of […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Do you really care what someone else is doing?
Why do other strength coaches care what someone else does with their programming? I’ve always wondered this. If you really think about it, someone doing something that you think is bad is a competitive advantage. It is actually in your best interest to not say anything. It is perplexing to really care about what another […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Building your Brand
This is something I have finally come to grips with as a critical aspect of coaching. Subconsciously, I have always made this a priority. It was not until recently that I actually realized how important this was for compensation and job security. What is a brand? A brand, by definition, is the sum of how […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Getting a Masters Degree?
This is a critical question. It is one that needs some sort of perspective. For context, I have two Bachelor’s Degrees (Mathematics and Movement Science) and two Masters Degrees (Exercise Science – Strength and Conditioning and Exercise Science – Performance Enhancement and Injury Prevention). When I say things in this blog post, such as a […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Accepting Blame vs Credit
At the end of a loss with a team you are working for, what is your response? Do you feel like you are solely responsible for that outcome? Do you feel detached from that loss with no feeling of any responsibility for that outcome? I guess this stems from what you perceive your contribution to […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – The Issue with Reductionist Based Thinking
What we have to understand is that complex problems are never going to be the sum of its parts. Meaning that if we worked backwards from the end, and break down into individual segments, they will never be able to fit perfectly back together at the end. Establishing a working knowledge of everything we do […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Was the High Performance Model a Failure (Part III)?
Part I – Organizational Structure we went through why the High Performance Model is not a good fit for top down organizational structures. Part II – HPM Model we went through what the HPM actually is supposed to look like. In Part III we are going to review what we can do about it, regardless […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Was the High Performance Model a Failure (Part II)?
Part I – Organizational Structure we went through why the High Performance Model (HPM) is not a good fit for top down organizational structures. In this Part II, we are going to review what the High Performance Model actually looks like, in part to show I actually do have an idea of what it is […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Was the High Performance Model a Failure? (Part I)
I have this image of a European soccer club having this beautiful set up of players, coaches, and trainers connected as one towards the path of sports mastery. This utopia of high performance with everyone in complete synergy with each-other. But we all know that is a myth, there are always problems and issues to […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Preparing for Post Season
There is a certain amount of anxiety or relief going into the final parts of a competitive season. Anxiety is centered around having a chance to move on to future success. Relief of a season filled with disappointment is almost over. Post season with college sports is a tumultuous time – it can be making […]