What are the things that you should'nt do when you have a coach?
In this video, I will tell you all about that and 6 things that triathlon coaches secretly hate
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Number 1 - When athletes don’t or badly communicate.
Communication is necessary for a good athlete-coach relationship and for the results of the athlete.
A coach needs to know what the athlete is capable of, what his weak and strong points
are, what kind of injuries he or she had and what their goals are.
For a coaching ship to work, a coach has to know all of these things, otherwise it won’t work.
This is why good communication is key for good results.
Research has shown that good communication has a positive effect on athletes their stress,
motivation and pressure level.
All this can influence your results on the race day more than you think.
There is no single element of the coaching process that is more important than communication.
If you are not communicating with your coach, you are wasting your potential and should
definitely talk about it with your coach.
Number 2 - Trying to Make Every Workout the Best Workout Ever
Every coach will tell you that not every workout needs to be perfect.
It is not optimal to perform every training session at your best effort.
This will increase your chance of having an injury or burnout.
This has to do with your muscle tissue needing time to repair, when you have a high intensity
training your muscle tissue gets destroyed that's how they grow.
But for your muscles to work better than last time, they need to repair.
The intenser the training, the more time it takes for your muscles to repair.
So if you don’t give them time to repair you won’t perform as good as your last training.
As a triathlete, this is very important to know since you will be training 6 days a week minimum.
Because you train so much, it means there is a minimum amount for your muscle fibers to heal.
This is why a triathlete needs to go easy on their muscles some training days.
Of Course, there will be training's that you do have to push beyond your limits, but you
should not do it every training.
Number 3 Not Following the Plan Anyway.
You hire your coach for his coaching, this includes a nutrition plan and a training plan,
all so that you can get your optimal result on race day.
By not following the coaches plan and just ignoring the nutrition or training plan, you
basically hired your coach for nothing.
Doing this could affect your coach to be disappointed and make him doubt his plans.
It will also destroy your chances of getting the optimal result on race day.
That one burger or that one day of training that you skipped could make a difference,
especially when it happens not just one time but multiple times.
A coach most of the time is very passionate about coaching just like you are with your
hobby or work, seeing someone destroy all your work just because they want to will make
the coach disappointed or mad.
A coach might have to make a whole new plan which takes a lot of time and effort.
By not following the plan, you made all the time your coach spent on it go to waste.
Nobody wants to waste their time, which is why they might not make a new plan for you.
Number 4 Showing your plan to other people, especially
by posting it on social media It is how coaches make their living, they
make plans using their knowledge and sell them.
If you are just going to give it away for free then the value of course depreciates
which means the coach won’t make as much money as before.
Because why would someone pay for something they can just find for free on the internet?
Coaches also need to pay their bills and if you just give away their work it won’t be
worth anything.
Using social media to expose and talk about your progress can easily annoy your coach.
This is what a coach had to say about using social media when asked what annoys him the most.
“Telling me about how your race went and then telling a completely different story
to your followers on social media.”
You should not do this if you don’t want to make your coach mad or confused.
You should always be honest to your coach.
Lying to your coach hurts you more than him, it makes it impossible for your coach to make
a perfect plan for you to follow and if your coach ever finds out that you lied to him,
you should probably be looking for a new one.
Number 5 Not having fun
If you don’t like to train that is okay, but if you are not motivated to train you
should definitely try to change that, if you're not motivated enough and don’t enjoy training
you probably should start to think about quitting training.
Training for the triathlon means you have to make a lot of sacrifices because it is
so time draining.
Being happy during doing what you do is an overall productivity booster and enhances performance.
You also make fewer mistakes and are in an overall happier mental state.
If you enjoy what you do it will no matter what it is help you advance your career and
get better at it.
It can be your sport, work or anything else.
Not enjoying your training will hinder you from reaching your max potential.
And the worst part is you won’t even know it.
This can be very frustrating for a coach since his work is not paying off this way.
But also for you because even though you put so much work into your training you still
didn’t reach your goal.
One tip every coach could give you sounds as follows :you should be motivated for something
in order to properly do it.
Don’t expect to reach your goals if you're not motivated for it.
Number 6 communicating too much
As said before, good communication is essential for a coach to do his or her job.
Communicating too much doesn’t influence your plan negatively, it just means your coach
will be annoyed with you.
“Texting in the late evening expecting an answer” A coach also has a personal life
and can’t be working all day just like you aren’t working all day.
Everyone deserves privacy, and especially at night.
Also, very annoying is when you are logging training notes that are way too long and have
nothing to do with training.”
This just makes it harder for your coach to do his work and is just wasting you and your
trainer's time
So if you don’t want your coach to be annoyed at you make sure to not do these things just listed.
Thank you for watching and if you are a coach let us below your most annoying experiences
with your clients.
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