The Dark Side of Coaching: How Secure Is Your Job?
In this profession, you are going to experience career limbo. Sometimes you don’t know where you’re going next — or if you’ll even have a job next season.
The Four Steps of Establishing Your Program
The success of your program depends on your ability to balance what your head coach wants to do, what you want to do, and what your team really needs.
You Never Know How You'll Find Your First Job
Whatever your plans are for breaking into this industry, forget them. It’s never going to work out how you plan.
Starting Your Career as a Collegiate Strength Coach
Breaking into this profession is difficult and requires determination and sacrifice but if you’re in it for the right reasons, that won’t be a problem.
Stay the Course
I have made the mistake of letting other programs distract me from my own. It is a waste of time and effort and I vow to never do it again.
A Brand New Start: Advice for Taking Over A Program
Your actions from Day One will determine the success of your program and athletes. Know your philosophy and have a plan for executing it.
Motivation and Inspiration: What Keeps You Going?
Sometimes working through adversity feels like a task you cannot possibly do on your own. Here are some ways to keep you going when things get tough.
Did You Win or Lose the Day?
Build your winning culture the same way you build in the weight room: every session, every set, and every rep leading to game day.
How Are We Judged As Strength Coaches?
Wins and losses? Injury prevention? Fourth-quarter dominance?
A Strength Coach's Lesson in Delegation
If you don’t trust your staff, you’ll try to do everything yourself. If you try to do everything yourself, you will fail. Break the cycle.
How My Old Programming Taught Me Something New
It may seem simple or it may seem stupid, but does it produce results?
Understanding Your Role as Strength Coach
Your influence on the team will make or break every meeting, training session, and game. Here’s one simple way to remember how you should act.
3 Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring Your Staff
Getting the most out of your athletes starts with bringing on the right coaches.
Perks of Being a Strength Coach
Mentoring athletes is a given. Here are four other benefits of the profession.
The Demon of Discouragement
Stepping back and looking over the years of your career, the reasons for your steady progress become apparent.
How Not to Behave and Why
Avoid these career-crushing errors that most strength coaches inadvertently commit.
The 13 Attributes for Gridiron Dominance
It takes more than two-a-days and Prowler pushes to win conference championships.
Making the Best Use of Summer Training
This article is dedicated to all those involved in the greatest season for strength coaches…the summer!
Coach G: What Are Your Goals?
The first thing you should do before every journey is figure out how you will reach the final destination.
Coach G: SAQ for You!
One of the most important rules that I can’t stress enough to other coaches, assistants, interns, and anyone else who will listen is that SAQ is not conditioning!
Coach G: What is your Philosophy, Part 2
Coach G returns to talk about the building blocks of strength and conditioning.
Coach G: What Is Your Philosophy?
Selling your program to the various sport coaches and administrators is one of the biggest tests you will face as a strength coach.
Coach G: There Isn't Any Wizard
All of these weird creatures were trying to go see someone they did not know to ask him to give them something they already had.
Coach G: Which Way Are You Pulling?
If we keep pulling in opposite directions, we’ll never get anywhere.
Coach G: What Does It Take?
Be a leader, be loyal, pay attention to detail, have a strong work ethic, and do not be a weight room reptile.
Coach G: The Triumph of the Will
If you do not have that “whatever it takes “ mentality, then don’t try to get into coaching.
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