Ahead of the Live SGPT seminar tomorrow in Brighton, Mass shares his thoughts around PD for small group – ideals, benchmarks and ideas for progression towards them for your gym and coaching team.

Jenzo was back in the room for a chat with Mass on this one.

Together they reflected on...the history of the PFCA, our definition of success, impact, the system of education we've created to date, and last weekend's FFC 2.

Too often today young coaches leave our industry prematurely because they're lost and disillusioned.

On this episode Mass tables 2 main reasons as to why this is the case, and what the coach can do to help navigate themselves back on track.

On this week's episode Mass tackles some questions we've had in over the last few weeks, including marketing as a coach, client mindset, olympic lifting program design, beginner functional athlete program design.

Punches are not pulled. Go listen for some tough, truthful, no BS answers.

Do we need to upgrade tracking 'Nurture' – The more subjective side of coaching? Or do we just need to get better at coaching it?

Listen to Mass work through this one in an attempt to reach a conclusion.

The function [in functional fitness] is determined by the exerciser, not the exercise.

Here Mass talks around why as coaches we shouldn't get this mixed up, and the history of 'Functional Fitness' more broadly.

We see the world in stories and narrative, and the coach-client relationship should be no different.

If the systems we’re coaching within do not provide space for the client to tell their story, AND the coach to listen, the reality is that we’ll never connect to the client, or connect the dots between the prescription and what matters to the client most. The outcome; meaningless, thoughtless, transactional exercise.

I [Mass] believe that the misinterpretation/misunderstanding of this word is one of the big players in misguiding intentions in fitness today.

Here I have a stab at unpacking what it actually means, and recalibrating how we use it within fitness.

What makes a great Coach?

On this one Mass reflects on personal experiences being coached, and shares insights into what made each [or all of them] so influential in his life, and relates that back to what we at The PFCA see as what makes a  great Coach.

The apprenticeship is dead in fitness!!

Not only is this a crying shame, but it's the reason most coaches don't last beyond 5 years in the game.

As an industry, we must change our perception of this integral phase of the coaches career from one of tedium, to accepting it as a critical element of the pathway towards coaching mastery.

Here, Coach Mass talks through our thoughts on the apprenticeship phase, and what we're doing within the PFCA to revive and facilitate it.

Enjoy

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Link to PFCA Career Pathway: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnmy2mxM-SA/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=