Level 1 Strength and Conditioning Course- Qualified Coaches

Posted On Monday, 04th April 2011 at 06:48

Well done to the Coaches who passed their level 1 S&C coaching course at the weekend.

One of the main pieces of feedback I gave was the importance of:

PLAN

DO

REVIEW

It is very hard to become a good coach without doing all 3 - and regularly.

The PLAN is important- and the simple question of what are you trying to achieve in the session stumps coaches a lot. If you don't know that, then it is hard to coach well.

The DO is important- coaching is not an abstract concept that can be academicised (despite JAFAs best attempts to do so). Going to University for 3- 4 years and reading about other people doing things is not learning how to coach.

"I thought I'd be able to nail it on the day" is a classic quote about people who think coaching is easy and then don't practice.

The REVIEW is important- to see what works, what doesn't and how to improve. If you don't review, then things stay the same at best, but probably get worse.

The young coaches who passed the course showed elements of all 3, and hopefully will carry on these principles to their sports.

The level 2 course enables coaches to work on this further and gives more in depth approaches to conditioning. I hope to see some of these guys on it then.