Strength Coach Chronicles – Internship Programs
Chances you have an internship program if you are in the team setting. The biggest question is what are you or the people interning getting from this experience? We all have interned in one way or another. We have all experienced the challenges of proving ourselves when we are unproven. We have all gone through […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Strength Coach Budgeting
This is probably not the most exciting topic, but it is one that I think we need to talk about. For me there were always a couple of non negotiable things: continuing education and whatever made me a better strength coach was included in the budget. Everything else was adjusted based on that. I know […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Strength Coach Retirement Plan
Here’s a fun topic, retirement planning. What is a good plan for a job with a ton of transition and low job security in regards to retirement? This is a complete guess, but I would say most full time S&C coaches will have somewhere in the range of 3-5 jobs in their career. That means […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Wearables Impact on Training
At this point, most people have been exposed to some sort of wearable technology. Tracking HR continuously, getting body temperature, getting oxygen levels, or getting HRV are common features of wearable technology. How should that influence our training decisions? We have all been there, we invested into a wearable and wondered if this will actually […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Finding Time to Workout
I have been a strength coach for almost 20 years, one thing I have prided myself on is finding time to workout each week. It may not have always been pretty, but it was something. This is an important topic to talk about for Strength Coaches. It is the one truly perfect amenity we have […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Managing Burnout
A common thread I deal with coaches is the idea of burnout. I work with young coaches. I’ve always had a great affinity for the upstart coach that is bright eyed and bushy tailed towards S&C. If you’re game I have a whole second book coming out here soon going over that path. But with […]
Strength Coach Chronicles – Who’s in Charge?
The idea of any organization is that someone is in charge of someone else. Assistant strength coach’s boss is the head strength coach, head strength coach’s boss is the head football coach, head football coach’s boss is the AD, the AD’s boss is the school president, the school president’s boss is the school board/trustees….. But […]
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 […]