19 Jan If You Hire a Coach – Be Coachable!
By Danny Bellmore
You have made the choice to hire a coach in an effort to gain guidance, and to point you in a better and more specific direction for your training needs. After doing your due diligence to research your best options, you are ready to take your coach selection to the next level. When you enlist the help of a coach, you are buying into their philosophy and this is where the amount and detail of research you procured pays off. Know who you are hiring and how they program.
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Nothing will irritate your coach more than if you don’t follow the program they created for you. Older generation lifters find it very hard to make the change in coaches. You need to have an open mind and run the program out to its length, before you make any type of assessment of program effectiveness. Your relationship with your coach will not last very long if you choose to continuously change your program, on your own, without communicating with your coach. If you are applying what your coach has laid out, you will need to ask yourself why you searched for a coach in the first place – especially if you refuse to listen.
I have had people come to me for advice and deep down you know they are not serious. You know the person is constantly complaining that they are fat and “will do anything” to lose weight. Just a few hours later, you see a post on social media stuffing their face with chocolate cake. Nothing says serious weight loss like jamming chocolate cake down your gullet. These types of people need professional counseling not coaching.
The top coaches pride themselves on how much progress their clients achieve – after all you are their living and breathing resume. You must be patient at first because during the initial familiarity stage, it takes time for a coach to understand his client’s needs. The newness period may only take 10 weeks or could potentially take much longer. The margin for improvement is small for higher caliber athletes and as such, the progress is much slower and will take more time to hone the program in for your precise needs. The most critical factor in the coach-athlete pairing that cannot be stressed enough is to establish and maintain open communication. Your coach can only be as good as the quality of information and feedback you provide. Be honest with him/her – and yourself – and that will make your relationship much stronger.
Remember to maintain an open mind and let your coach do the coaching, your job is to listen and do the work asked of you. There is one thing in life that you will never get back no matter hard you try and that is time, don’t waste yours or theirs.
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