Being effective when coaching or training is something that can take practice and finesse but is invaluable when it comes to communicating with your athlete. These five simple strategies are designed help coaches and trainers become more effective teachers when working with classes or clients.
A few readers have noticed and asked about my use of the “IQ” notation after each exercise and workout. IQ is my own personal shorthand for “intensity quotient,” or put another way, the average weight per rep for that exercise or workout.
Like any excitable child, I would love a new bike for Christmas. I want one of those "if Batman had a road bike, he would have this one" road bikes that seem to be made of hyperbole and borderline fictional materials.
Unfortunately, this one doesn't get to go on my wish list, as it is an area I know nothing about. But as a chef-turned-girevik, I do know a thing or two about cooking and eating well.
In this podcast, Breaking Muscle Radio speaks with world-class strength and conditioning coach James Fitzgerald - many of you know him as OPT winner of the 2007 CrossFit Games.
With the encouragement of co-worker and CrossFit coach Meredith Davis, 18 Cannon School educators in Concord, North Carolina, started training at CrossFit Vitality. In this nine-part series, these teachers and administrators go through CrossFit fundamentals and try to determine the cognitive impact of the program.
In Part 6, we take a trip back in time to the 2013 Reebok CrossFit Games Open and the live announcement of Open Workout 13.1. CrossFit Vitality hosted the event, and soon after, Davis ran into CrossFit Founder and CEO Greg Glassman at a local Starbucks. Suddenly, a dream became a reality.
“I could just go on and on about how awesome (CrossFit) is, and how, as an educator, it would be amazing if kids could actually have this exposure, because it changed my life,” says a teary Davis.
Hearing her story, Glassman offered to fly her to California and send her to schools that embrace CrossFit in their curriculum. She was overjoyed.
“It was an amazing gesture that I won’t forget,” she says.
Back at Vitality, it’s time for a six-week diet challenge, and while some members are optimistic, others aren’t so sure.
“Some people are wavering,” says Michelle Zelaya, upper-school Spanish teacher. “But we’re trying to support each other.”
Time will tell who will remain committed and who will falter when it comes to diet.
Video by Gary Roberts and Jordan Shalhoub.
9min 43sec
Additional reading: “Fran to Teach Phys. Ed.” by Staff, published Dec. 14, 2013.
My high school football coach had a consistent piece of advice: “Protect your low back because you've only got one.” Sadly, he had to quit football in college because of a low back injury.
