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Strategies to be a better coach

- Setting up groups appropriate to skill level because age doesn’t skill

o Have your sessions correlate with the skill levels of your player

§ This allows the training sessions to flow properly and allows the group to get reps up at a high rate

§ Also makes it competitive within workout itself

o Setup your schedule ahead of time and also use calendar apps for clients to use

§ It allows you to have a better work week

o Always prepare the environment before athltes and clients come in

§ It allows the gym to look organized

§ Have a better work flow during the session

§ Allows you to also try it out yourself to make sure it makes sense and your demo’s aren’t sloppy

§ Keeps the gym looking professional

o Try and communicate with your clients and athletes as much as possible

§ It doesn’t have to be about training simply ask how was their day

§ Foster a relationship that can be beyond just coach and client

· See it as an opportunity to build with them as a role model or mentor

- Floursihing in your niche

o Focus on growing within your strengths and pairing with others that match your weaknesses

§ Your strengths will always get you interests over the things you’re average, and with that being said you need to focus on ways to grow it

· Identify them and make a schedule to study and practice those qualities

o If you are great with x’s and o’s study more plays and experiment with sets during with local rec teams to see what may work and what may not work

· Find mentors who have experience at a high level and shadow under them

· Seek out books and other materials to read and take notes from them

o Also apply the notes you wrote down, with experience you will know how to make it work

o Ask a lot of questions and be ready to work

· Find a group of like minded people to build and grow

- Working on being the best you and not the best coach

o Your coaching career will depend on YOU

§ You being who you are as a person.

§ Make sure you are taking time out for your mental health and physical health.

§ Also take time out to acknowledge your emotional well being

· Now when youre having a bad day, anxious, or stressed

o Invest in help with professionals if you feel as if you cannot identify it well on your own

§ Make sure you are setting out personal goals to accomplish as well coaching goals

· Could be traveling

· Could be getting a new hobby

· Could be getting a new car\

§ Never let the work schedule consume you to the point where you aren’t making time for loved ones and for yourself

· Success will come with time so there is no reason to double up on time towards to working in order to get there faster.

Our latest episode with @amazinggrace12 (Instagram Handle) is dropping at 3pm. Sean and Grace discussed

-Having a great inner circle 

is equal to having a enriched soil bed

the minerals and nutrients from the soil are absorbed by the fruits and vegetables, which makes the yiedling crops

potent in deleviring a healthy boost to our system

How does this relate to our inner circle?

Our circle is what we absorb from on a consistent basis and from it the person we are rubs off on the people we interact with

How do we make suer our soil is enriched?

Your inner circle has to be packed with people who share the similar principles and morals, end goals, work ethic, vision, and passion

Having these people around will insult you from distractions and you will slowly unlock the best version of yourself by simply having a great 

inner circle

After you have planted your roots firmly with the inner workings of great friends and associates 

the next step is to build with that inner circle 

-building with like minded individuals is like a group project where everyone contributes and does their part at a high level

it allows you to also focus on what you do best and share the load of other tasks with others which allows the process to feel fun and 

not a battle to get it all done by yourself 

you also get their learn from different perspectives which is needed for growth the amount of knowledge gained from building with others cannot 

be found nor put in books

it is practical knowledge that is easily applicable as well as proven to work

As much as building with others can be fun and helps us grow

-The most important source of our growth is our mentors, and why is that?

These individuals have walked a path similar to yours  before and have succedded in it

Not only is the path similar but its paven already

You simply have to walk the path by putting in the work

The amount of opportunities guidance and support you can get from mentors are what truly helps us accelerate our rate of success

Which car would you rather use when drag racing a honda accord or a hellcat charger

Last is focusing on our end goal

Sean Davy sits down wtih Eli West to discuss how he got into coaching, what motivates him to coach, and more importantly the role coaches play in their athelte's maturity process in life.

Eli West is a former Track and Field Athlete from Savannah State, he was able to secure his scholarship in Track and Field after just one season of running moving from Hackensack, New Jersey to Gwinnet County in Atlanta his Senior Season of High School. 

His aspirations as a coach is one that are rare to find becuase it is truly about the athlete's development, their maturity away from the sport, and his own growth as a coach. 

- Reflecting coaching for the first year within the sports industry after leaving the 9-5 world.

In this episode Sean and Nsuani both pick each other's brain getting to know each others background while also covering a variety of topics.

Those topics are

Nsuani's also a gym owner of Ferris 360 and you can follow him and his gym on social media below

Ferris 360

Nsuani Baffoe 

Sean Davy and Harry Hazan sit down again to talk about

- How should you train kids?

- What is the proper progression of skills for a basketball player and when do you know when to do so?

- Having a protege and pushing yourself to be the best coach you can be for them.

- Building relationships with players and using that foundation to grind with them. 

Sean Davy sits down with Will Ratelle of University of North Dakota. Will's background is one that's pretty cool. Played on a couple of teams in the NFL's preseason for a few years before playing in the CFL. After his career in the CFL and NFL, Will decided to work at the same school he played for at North Dakota as an S&C. Will can be seen on the explore page moving like a gazelle but being built like he can still go pro in the NFL. His training protocol is one that's pratical and more importantly robust. In athletes now we don't see many that have that imposing physique like the athlete's of before. Will's Hoss Project is one that will allow you to gain size and athleticism. Sean and Will discuss

- Training with less volume but more intention

- Why people believe training to be bigger can make you slower when it comes down to how did you train that size? Was it by tempo lifts and isolation exercises or was it due to phases of strength and speed blocks.

- No such thing as "Power Training"

- Your coaches eye should be able to validate your reasoning behind your decision more than any research article.