I wrote this piece for my StrengthCoach.com site a few months ago and thought I’d share it with a wider audience.
Brian Carrol wrote an interesting piece called Five Reasons Your Not Getting Stronger. It was pretty good and to the point.
I thought I’d analyze this part though:
Qualify the person you’re taking advice from using these 5 questions I learned from Dave Tate of Elite FTS:
1. What is his/her education and background?
2. How is/was this coach’s performance in the particular sport they’re coaching?
3. Who have they trained?
4. Have they been able to make athletes better than they were before training with them?
5. Do they practice what they preach?If I score myself, I do pretty good on number 1- Education and background.
2. Performance in the particular sport they are coaching? I was not very good at anything. In fact, my best sport was swimming. I played and liked lots of other stuff ( powerlifting, basketball, football) but, performance? Not so much. Surprisingly, I have a baseball worlds series ring ( played from 8 years old to 12 and stunk) and two ice hockey national championship rings ( never played). By the way, my dad won a few state championships as a basketball coach and never played organized basketball. Also, in most team sports, great players don’t make great coaches. In strength and conditioning most of the best coaches I know either weren’t very good, had a career shortened by injury or both.
from Michael Boyle's Strengthcoach.com Blog http://strengthcoachblog.com/2015/11/21/who-should-you-take-advice-from-2/
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