Be an Elite Coach, Build Elite Athletes

Things to develop your coaching and have a greater impact on your athletes. You define what your “elite” is!

By Isaac Leung, Athletic Skills

Hey reader,

Hope you’ve had a good week!

Have a large group and don’t know where to start in delivering high effective movement based drills? Remember in the last newsletter, click here to view, the last thing you want is your group queuing so what strategies can you do to keep the session flowing?

And I will share my number 1 mobility exercise to save time and ensure you mobilise multiple regions in less than 30 seconds.

Before we dive in, if anyone is interested in being a guest writer and sharing what’s happening in your coaching or training, or if you have advice you'd like to share, let me know. I’d love to feature some of you in this newsletter!

Be an Elite Coach:

Warm-Up Circuit When Working with a Large Group - A great method to get everyone moving at once, expose them to different movements, and solve the lack of time to coach athletic movements with large groups.

When I was coaching in South Africa a few weeks ago, I worked with a sports coach who led the warm-up before the game. After discussing with him what he wanted to see and achieve with his group before a game, we created a strategy and drills that could fulfill his coaching objectives.

We discovered that using a circuit format with 4-5 stations, where small groups would rotate through, was successful. This approach allowed the entire group to stay active, engaged, and warmed up, rather than standing around in a queue.

We did find that introducing this new format to the group resulted in some delays in understanding each drill for some members, or in the difficulty of keeping an eye on everyone while coaching and correcting movements. However, with some adaptations in coaching instructions beforehand, such as having the coach observe and correct while allowing the group to run through the drills a few times to gain a better understanding and familiarity, this could help improve this warm-up routine going forward.

It was great to see a Sports Coach implementing new methods and starting to coach and impact his athletes movement and overall development.

Try this in your next warm-up: set up stations, divide the group into small teams, and let them rotate through each drill and get them moving as one.

Build Elite Athletes:

Best Mobility Exercise for your athletes/clients?

If I were to choose a single mobility exercise that provides the most benefit and targets lots of areas by opening up the hips, thoracic spine, and ankles while getting the body moving…

I would opt for the Spiderman stretch!

Give it a go with your group in your next warm up. Great to do prior to any training, whether thats striking a ball, running and turning, throwing/catching or a gym based session.

Need help or support in taking your coaching to the next level? Hit reply and get in touch and let’s have a chat!

Speak soon,

Isaac 🙂

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