To kick off our latest podcast series on working in remote coaching, we are sharing our personal experience working online with athletes and how we got started.
With all three of us coming from different places in coaching, coincidently, we all started at a similar period when working online was still a very new method of coaching in CrossFit.
Several themes become apparent from each of our own stories, one of them being the importance of working with people in person. Although the coaching profession has elevated considerably in the last several years, there are still many people out there who haven't experienced the value of having a bit of feedback or coaching in person. Sometimes giving a lot of value here can be leveraged to gain remote coaching clients.
Listen to episode 97 to hear old tails of qualifying for regionals, Jon's secret double under training for open workout 11.1 and how the online coaching space has developed over the years.
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Show Notes: * [1:15] How Jon started with remote coaching * [4:50] How Jon's competitive - regionals * [8:00] Jon's secret training methods for Double Unders * [9:30] When competitors started transitioning from blog programming to coaching * [11:40] Luke's experience with coaching * [16:00] Benefit of working with people in a hybrid setting * [20:30] Shifts in client goals since the pandemic * [21:45] How development in the sport is changing the typical client * [24:40] Todd's story * [27:00] Reality of being in the right place at the right time as a coach * [28:30] The benefit of being in person with people * [29:25] Influence of continuing education with OPEX for Todd and Luke * [33:00] How people thought you should train for CrossFit pre 2014