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Welcome to our blog. Here you'll find weekly resources to help you unlock your time, income, and impact.
Remote Coaching Best Practices: 3 Tips to Maximize Athlete Engagement
In my view there are 3 critical aspects of successful remote coaching on CoachNow: (1) providing focused video feedback, (2) emphasizing the importance of context, and (3) maintaining momentum while you’re apart.
10-30-2024
How to Train Your Athletes to Practice like a pro… Even if They’re an Amateur (INTENTION & RETENTION)
In my 10+ years of coaching both amateurs and pros, I’ve noticed some key distinctions between how they approach practice and training.. And as a result I’ve also seen the patterns of where amateurs fall short.
10-24-2024
How to Introduce Long-Term Development Programs into Your Coaching Offer
Don’t fall into the trap of creating custom programs for everyone you work with. Create the program templates first, then determine which makes the most sense for each individual athlete to reach their goals within their budget.
07-03-2024
IG June Round Up - CoachNow Featured Coaches
This week, we're highlighting 3 stellar examples of CoachNow members showing how they use the platform in real-world settings.
06-26-2024
What’s Passive Transparency? Keeping Parents in the Loop
If you’re a coach for young athletes, you know how important it is to keep parents in the loop. There’s just SO much that goes on between a coach and athlete during a session. How do you keep parents informed while not getting bogged down?
06-19-2024
Unlocking the Full Potential of Video Analysis for Your Coaching
Video analysis is an incredibly powerful tool, but it’s only ONE piece of the puzzle when it comes to helping your athletes improve. We'll dive into the specific mistakes to avoid and the benefits you'll reap by sidestepping them.
06-11-2024
Organize Your Content in CoachNow - 6 Key Features - Alex, Head Coach
Discover essential features and best practices for organizing your coaching content in CoachNow, ensuring a streamlined and efficient experience for both you and your athletes.
06-06-2024
The Surprising Power of Collaboration
The truth is, while I am skilled in many areas, I just don’t have the depth of expertise that these trainers have. By bringing together complementary specialists, you build a holistic team dedicated to the athlete’s transformation.
05-30-2024
The 3 P’s - A Framework for Coaching Success
The coaching industry is fundamentally broken, but with "The 3 P's", you can build your business and empower your athletes to thrive.
05-16-2024
3 Ways to Make Your Coaching Offer Stand Out From The Crowd
I know how challenging it can be to set yourself apart from your competition. This week, I want to share my advice on how to make your coaching offer stand out from the crowd.
04-24-2024
Coaching Habits to Implement for 2024
Creating the right habits is crucial to your success as a coach and a business owner. Follow these three and watch your business soar to new heights, for 2024 and beyond.
04-18-2024
ConnectedCoaching Gear 101: My Recommendations
At CoachNow, we’re always on the lookout for innovative technologies that empower coaches and athletes alike. This week, I wanted to share some of my recommendations.
04-11-2024
Sessions, Not "Lessons": Know the Difference
Words reinforce mindset. And outdated nomenclature reinforces a passive, unrealistic structure to your coaching offer. Replace this word to offer a true win-win-win for your athletes, yourself and your business.
04-04-2024
CoachNow's Playbook: Top 5 Blogs You Can't Miss from 2023!
In these blogs, we've got tangible advice for growing your business, what makes a good Sports-Skills coach, and how to leverage CoachNow’s automation features to streamline your workflow.
04-01-2024
Asynchronous Coaching: Build Better Athletes Faster
Discover how asynchronous communication can revolutionize your coaching strategy, save you time, and accelerate athlete progress by incorporating micro touch points between sessions.
03-21-2024
In-Person Coaching Sessions: Top 3 Best Practices
This post is all about how to optimize your in-person sessions to maximize your time with your athletes, expedite their improvement, and help them perform at their best (all while minimizing your workload).
02-08-2024
Is Your Coaching Job Burning You Out? Here's Why
Every day I speak with coaches who are on the verge of burning out. And I totally understand why. It happened to me. Since creating CoachNow I’ve made it my mission to stop it from happening to you.
02-05-2024
Coaching 101 - Bridging the Gap Between "Feel" vs. "Real"
The first step in any athletic journey is giving them the tools they need to think objectively about their performance, so they can improve every time they practice, even if you aren’t there with them.
12-10-2023
What is Periodization?
Periodization is a fancy word for the systematic planning of athletic training. It involves breaking down training into phases, each with a specific goal, to achieve peak performance at the right time.
11-30-2023
CoachNow Coach Analysis Examples
From state-of-the-art video analysis to streamlined communication channels, CoachNow coaches utilize every tool at their disposal to connect with and elevate their athletes.
11-16-2023
How Do You Organize Content in CoachNow? AMA Session May 12th, 2023
This week's AMA covers a range of topics, from organizing content in CoachNow, to unique use cases from celebrity coaches.
11-05-2023
What’s a Sport-Skills Coach?
In the world of sports, the term "coach" can mean a lot of things. There are different types of coaches out there, each with their own unique roles, goals, and areas of expertise.
10-26-2023
Sports-Skills Coaching in 2023: Dos and Don'ts
To help you navigate the challenges and opportunities in the sports-skills coaching industry, I’vs compiled a list of “dos” and “don'ts”. Let's investigate ways to prosper as a coach in the upcoming year.
10-19-2023
3 Ideas for Automating Your Coaching Business
In light of our recent upgrades to PRO, we’re due for an updated post about how all these features come together to help you unlock new revenue streams and automate the busy work in your business. Don’t want you all to miss the forest for the trees.
09-28-2023
Rapid Fire Overview: Spaces, Groups, Best Practices
Whether you're a seasoned user or a newbie, this short YouTube video will give you everything you need to know about adding your athletes, creating Spaces & Groups, and using both the Web Mobile Applications to streamline your business.
09-20-2023
HOW TO Build Automated Accountability with Templates
The idea here is to send a series of posts to your athletes to ensure they receive reminders of what’s expected of them during a given week. This keeps them accountable to your program, while reducing your need to constantly message them.
09-14-2023
Top 5 Tips to Unlock the Power of Spaces for Your Coaching Business
Unlike disparate communication channels like text, email, Whatsapp, video analysis apps etc, Spaces are perfect for 1-on-1 development in a very specific area of development.
07-20-2023
Coaching 101: Mastering the Art of Goal-Oriented Practice
Far too often, coaching and practice sessions become reactive. But this approach lacks a key component to any successful coaching session: Goal-Orientation.
07-12-2023
CoachNow Best Practices: Unlocking the Power of the Cloud Library
Simply knowing how to leverage your Cloud library’s tools will streamline the organization and ease of communication around your posts, documents, videos, photos and more.
06-07-2023
The Importance of Coaching Relationships: Striking a Balance
If my career as a high-performance coach taught me anything, it’s that success doesn’t just depend on the progress or performance of our athletes. The relationships we cultivate are just as important, if not more important.
05-10-2023
Shortening the Feedback Loop - What Makes a Good Post in CoachNow?
At the end of the day, CoachNow is only valuable if it helps shorten the feedback loop with your athletes. To maximize the platform, you need to clearly communicate HOW you want your athletes to interact with you on CoachNow.
02-11-2023
Getting Started with Long-Term Development Programs - 3 Key Components
I’ve had lots of coaches ask me how they should go about making the transition to long term development. How do you actually begin the journey away from the “Lessons” model and into the “Coaching” model?
10-20-2022
How to Make $100,000+/ Year Coaching Less Than 30 Hours a Week (Yes, Really)
“The $100k Coaching Offer” is play by play outline of the exact offer that’ll get you to $100k per year as a coach or trainer. Sound too good to be true? Read on. It’s really quite simple when you break it down.
10-13-2022
Do You Know The Best Kept Secret of Video Analysis?
From day 1 of CoachNow, I knew that video analysis on its own was insufficient. You can do all the analysis in the world, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into improvements in your athlete’s performance.
06-23-2022
The WHY Behind These Foundational Video Analysis Features
CoachNow is an industry leader in video analysis, and utilizes 4 key features that can enhance your coaching workflow: Slow Motion, Voice Over, Comparison Shots, and Dynamic Annotation.
06-16-2022
Focus On What Athletes WANT, Not WHAT YOU THINK THEY NEED
Today I wanna cover an often overlooked messaging tweak that can make a huge difference for your business. It’s very simple but powerful: lead with what your ideal customers WANT, not what YOU THINK THEY NEED.
06-10-2022
Don't Worry! Athletes Won't Fire You if They Get Too Good Too Fast
You'll learn the difference between calibrative and directive feedback and how to leverage calibrative feedback to make your athletes more autonomous.
05-19-2022
3 Key Ingredients to Level Up Your Live Coaching Sessions
A ConnectedCoaching session should include 2 recap videos, before and after technical video or image comparison, and a concise written practice plan. Post these resources within your athlete’s space during your practice session.
04-28-2022
3 Reasons Why You’ll Quit Your Coaching Job (DON’T MAKE THESE MISTAKES)
Back when I was coaching, I burned out and ultimately quit doing what I once loved. I don’t want to see you do the same. I cover 3 common mistakes I’ve seen that are doing more harm than good.
04-21-2022
Using CoachNow if your Athletes Aren't Tech Savvy: 3 Things to Consider
People are often concerned with adding new software because their athletes aren't as "tech Savvy". CoachNow squashes those concerns by making the onboarding and sign in process incredibly easy.
03-24-2022
Onboarding Your Athletes to CoachNow: Top 3 Best Practices
Let’s be honest: transitioning your clients to new software can be daunting. The advice in this post will make the transition smooth and help you realize the potential of the platform.
03-16-2022
Video Analysis: What Most Coaches Get Wrong (4 Major Misconceptions)
The 4 most common misconceptions surrounding video analysis: overemphasizing the importance of video, underemphasizing the importance of your coaching relationships, overcomplicating feedback, and screwing up communication.
02-06-2022
Try Making Video Recaps in CoachNow!
This week, I want to dive deeper into a specific form of video recap that's worked wonders for me. I wish I'd known this simple coaching hack sooner, and I hope you will put it in play in your next session!
01-28-2022
The Magic of Video Recaps | Change Your Coaching Business in 2 Minutes
There is one thing that stands above the rest when it comes to helping coaches transform their businesses overnight. It’s one of the most important elements to include in every coaching session, and it is incredibly underutilized.
01-12-2022
Common Video Analysis Mistakes
Way too often I see coaches going down the dreaded video analysis rabbit hole, completely losing sight of its potential and creating unnecessary work for themselves that goes unused or unappreciated.
12-17-2021
Coaching Killers
If you can avoid distractions and focus on helping your clients retain information, you will see noticeably happier athletes and parents.
12-11-2021
Coaching with Micro-Touch Points
The most successful Coaches within the CoachNow universe are incredibly adept at delivering timely value in small doses. As ConnectedCoaches, we call that a "Micro Touch Point"
11-19-2021
Is Video Analysis Helpful?
My motive here is to help you understand best practices when it comes to video analysis. I hope the advice here helps you save time and leverage modern technology to help your athletes reach their goals efficiently.
10-12-2021