Unlocking Athletes

EP 9 - Coach / Ahtlete Pet Peeves

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We dedicated this entire episode to 2 questions we received on our IG story this week:

- What are common things your athletes do that get under your skin?

- What trends in the fitness/coaching industry do you dislike?

AKA - What are our coach/athlete pet peeves? 

In this episode, we cover:

  • 'The Garage gym hero' - aka the athlete who puts their focus on the wrong thing at the wrong time and usually posts numbers that they just can't replicate when they show up in person.  We want to see what you do on game day, not in a solo garage session. 
  • 'The ADHD athlete' - aka the goal switcher.  Someone who can't focus on their warmup much less a long term progressive plan.
  • 'Trust-issues Tommy' - aka the athlete who won't ACTUALLY follow their program because they know better or don't trust their coach enough to see what could truly be achieved.
  • Pay-for-punishment Coaches - aka the coaches who don't program for long term success. They program for short term pain and suffering. Looks cool on the Gram, not cool on an MRI of their athlete's joints.
  • Big-word Bro-coach - aka the coach who uses words that most people don't understand - and neither do they.  It's frustrating to try to fight all the widespread misuse of terminology.  We just hope the athletes can see through it in the long run.
  • Fixed mindset Coach - aka the coach who has 'all the secrets' and 12-week quick-fix programs for everything.  This also happens to be the same thing that was used 20 years ago but the coach won't upgrade their process even when their athletes and data tells them otherwise. 

    • In the end, we finish with some of the things that our most successful athletes do on a daily basis.  There is enough complaining in the world so we wanted to end on GOOD things that you can replicate with your daily habits to help you succeed in the long run too!

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