What School Doesn't Teach You About Coaching

Episode #31: Building a Successful Strength & Conditioning Internship Program at the D1 Level

Stu Roche, who runs the internship program at Marquette, on what interns should learn first: coaching before programming. Why trying to teach everything in a semester backfires, and exercises he uses to build thinking, like writing a needs analysis for a sport nobody on staff knows.

If This Video on Matt McGloin Doesn't Inspire You, We Don't Know What Willopens blog.teambuildr.com in a new tab

Watch this short video on Matt McGloin to find inspiration to be a better athlete. He displays strength, determination, and perserverance.

TeamBuildr · 23 December 2013

Applied Behavior Modification in Coaching: Leveraging Habit Tracking to Improve Athlete Performance

Behaviour change for coaches, built around habit tracking. Start with your own baseline, learn to run a behaviour inventory, then apply it to athletes who know what to do and still do not do it.

Programming is Not Coaching

Five modules arguing that your programme is rarely the thing holding athletes back. Athlete resistance, team dynamics, feedback and standards that survive without you in the room.

5 Potent Productivity Apps

The apps and tools that keep a coach's week in order, split between work (Slack, Asana, Clockify, Grammarly, Freedom) and life (Headspace, Strava, Canva, Mint, an interval timer). Written in 2020, when most staffs were suddenly working from home.

51 Ways to Motivate Your Athletes

Fifty-one motivation tactics sent in by working strength coaches, each credited to the coach and school that uses it. Point systems, attendance T-shirts, a Strength GPA, Lifter of the Month, team carries and end-of-session competitions, mostly from high school and college weight rooms.