Today I’m going to share a story of a trainee who was having trouble making progress in her squats and Olympic lifts. I couldn’t figure out why until a happy accident happened which ended up in her learning to jump.
Coaching is Half Science, Half Intuition and Half Luck
I think if more coaches were honest, they’d admit that most of what they’ve learned or figured out about training people came from one of two places:
- People smarter than them.
- Lucky accidents.
Rather than trying to appear as if they figured out the secrets of the universe (available for only 3 easy payments of $77.77) all by themselves.
As often as not, it seems like learning ‘amazing’ new things about training people is as much luck and being in the right place in the right time as anything else. It certainly has been the case for me and this article is about one of those times.… Keep Reading