If they can’t provide quality answers to these questions (most can’t answer the first one) turn & run.
“ 1. What is your training philosophy? How has it evolved? WHat have you removed that didn’t work?
What KPI’s do you measure & track to prove efficacy?
What is the deeper reason for doing what you do?
Ask your kids prospective coach these questions.
You’ll weed out the phonies quick.”
-Ray Zingler on X
The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of poor coaches out there.
It’s not that I have anything against people personally, but when it comes to our youth, the demographic who I believe to be more important than any other, quality coaching is critical to their development.
And I am talking about development that exceeds well beyond a coach’s titled means of impact.
The problem in my field of Strength & Conditioning or what the cutting edge bros like to call Sports Performance, is that there is no governing body to hold anybody accountable.
In most states, certification isn’t even required.
You can go to Dicks, buy some cones, sneak on to a public field you didn’t pay for, and start training people. Tomorrow. Hell, you can start today.
This is what most people do.
Is it because it’s “best”?
Of course not.
It’s cheap to start and it’s easy.
And a lot of these bros who don’t know quality training from their assholes know that naïve parents are willing to shell out cash for anything that appears to look like training.
Ask questions? Nah.
Hold people accountable? No thanks.
Seek to learn about what’s going on even at the most rudimentary of levels? No time for that!
You nice person. You do speed agility. You take my monies.
I mean it’s asinine to me that parents shop harder for clothing than they do critical resources for their kids’ development.
I could wipe 90% of the charlatans off the training map overnight if parents asked these simple questions.
1) What is your training philosophy? How has it evolved? What have you removed that didn’t work?
2) What KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) do you use to measure & track to prove efficacy?
3) What is the deeper reason for doing what you do?
It would literally take you 3 minutes, hell less than that because you’d have most of these bros fumbling for words trying to answer your first question.
But don’t ask these questions for me.
Ask them for your kids.
They are the ones who end up losing because of a lack of parental due diligence.
Who is impacting your kids matters more than you know.
Hunt for quality people.
