| Body and Mind Solution's Philosophy Coaching Checklist |
The Goal
The goal of the Body And Mind Solutions is to provide an unparalleled athletic, academic, life-coaching and therapeutic environment. Through personal interaction,
telephone calls, on-line coaching, clinics, Instant Messaging, camps and e-mail, we are focused not only on maximizing performance but on teaching athletes,
academics, and life students how to create a lifestyle that balances athletic, academic and life goals. We guarantee that if the advice offered is faithfully followed, clients
will not only improve their training and performance potential but create a healthier lifestyle.
Why Hire a Coach or Therapist?
The focus of coaching and therapy is on the future, the possible, and your personal strengths. The goal of coaching is to help you learn to live in such a way that your
actions in life sustain your core values and purpose. From your life's meaning and purpose, we derive choices that you make responsibly.
Much of coaching is about taking action. Performance coaching can help you fine tune specific skills, clarify goals, and formulate definite plans for action. Transformative
coaching occurs at a higher level, which means that the focus is to create a fundamental shift in your perspective, values, potential, or future life course.
Body and Mind Solutions specialize in bringing you psychological know-how while incorporating a balanced and healthy life to help move your plans into achievable
action steps. We will begin the coaching relationship by helping you clarify your values, dreams, and sources of personal inspiration. We examine your strengths and
clearly define a vision for the future. The coaching relationship helps you take action toward your vision, making it become a reality.
A Successful Program
A successful coaching program cannot guarantee success in racing, life and or academics. Training, studying and practicing merely makes success possible. An athlete,
academic, and life student must also have the will to win, a subconscious desire for victory, courage, tenacity, and a fierce competitive instinct to transform the racing and
life potential provided by unparalleled coaching and training into reality.
Body and Mind Solutions Coaching Staff
The Body and Mind Solutions Coaching Staff is committed to provide all the tools necessary for each and every athlete to reach their personal and life goals. We believe
in setting our goals high. There is no reason to do anything in life unless you do it with a purpose and do it to the best of your ability. Group teams will help you make the
decision to rise above the “average”, and take the rewarding and challenging road to success.
What we've found out through 15+ years of training and coaching experience is that many different training techniques work. While some programs work better than others,
there is no one-size-fits-all training program that works for everyone. Slavishly following a training plan gleaned from a book or a web site without customizing, monitoring,
and adjusting it can be a recipe for failure, injury, or worse. Given this, the Body and Mind Solutions coaches believe in the following:
The goal of the Body And Mind Solutions is to provide an unparalleled athletic, academic, life-coaching and therapeutic environment. Through personal interaction,
telephone calls, on-line coaching, clinics, Instant Messaging, camps and e-mail, we are focused not only on maximizing performance but on teaching athletes,
academics, and life students how to create a lifestyle that balances athletic, academic and life goals. We guarantee that if the advice offered is faithfully followed, clients
will not only improve their training and performance potential but create a healthier lifestyle.
Why Hire a Coach or Therapist?
The focus of coaching and therapy is on the future, the possible, and your personal strengths. The goal of coaching is to help you learn to live in such a way that your
actions in life sustain your core values and purpose. From your life's meaning and purpose, we derive choices that you make responsibly.
Much of coaching is about taking action. Performance coaching can help you fine tune specific skills, clarify goals, and formulate definite plans for action. Transformative
coaching occurs at a higher level, which means that the focus is to create a fundamental shift in your perspective, values, potential, or future life course.
Body and Mind Solutions specialize in bringing you psychological know-how while incorporating a balanced and healthy life to help move your plans into achievable
action steps. We will begin the coaching relationship by helping you clarify your values, dreams, and sources of personal inspiration. We examine your strengths and
clearly define a vision for the future. The coaching relationship helps you take action toward your vision, making it become a reality.
A Successful Program
A successful coaching program cannot guarantee success in racing, life and or academics. Training, studying and practicing merely makes success possible. An athlete,
academic, and life student must also have the will to win, a subconscious desire for victory, courage, tenacity, and a fierce competitive instinct to transform the racing and
life potential provided by unparalleled coaching and training into reality.
Body and Mind Solutions Coaching Staff
The Body and Mind Solutions Coaching Staff is committed to provide all the tools necessary for each and every athlete to reach their personal and life goals. We believe
in setting our goals high. There is no reason to do anything in life unless you do it with a purpose and do it to the best of your ability. Group teams will help you make the
decision to rise above the “average”, and take the rewarding and challenging road to success.
What we've found out through 15+ years of training and coaching experience is that many different training techniques work. While some programs work better than others,
there is no one-size-fits-all training program that works for everyone. Slavishly following a training plan gleaned from a book or a web site without customizing, monitoring,
and adjusting it can be a recipe for failure, injury, or worse. Given this, the Body and Mind Solutions coaches believe in the following:
- Athletes, Academics and Life Students are individuals with different strengths, weaknesses, experience, goals, levels of commitment, and life constraints. Thus,
every training program needs to be custom designed to best meet individual needs and goals. - Ongoing and regular two-way communication between coach and athlete is important. A coach may have expertise in the generalities of training, but ultimately
only you know what is best for you on a given day. - Challenging, clear goals are necessary for improvement which is what our coaching is based on.
- Commitment to personally meaningful goals is the path to success. While a coach can help you articulate goals, you are ultimately responsible for setting and
achieving those goals. - Change and experimentation is good, but radically altering your training or goals every six months based on the latest and greatest "scientific study" is not good.
There are certain time tested training principles that should be included in every program. - Monitoring and feedback is needed for ongoing improvement. You learn what is best for you through trial, error, and success. Knowing what doesn't work for you is
as important as knowing what does work for you.
Coaching Checklist
by Cristin Reichmuth as seen on www.irongirl.com
Stop for a moment. Think back to your school days and without a doubt, there is a teacher who stood above the rest in terms of being a great mentor and teacher to you.
Was this person especially kind? Were they understanding? Was it their presence that did it for you? Or possibly, this person was a great role-model? Whatever it was
that made that teacher special to you, you may want to take some extra time in finding a coach like that.
An athletic goal is a journey that can be completed alone by studying books, friend’s experiences or the Internet. Or, If you are fortunate enough to have the means, you
can hire a coach. When doing so, factor in extra time to find a coach that is right for you. I like to use the analysis of a bad date…you wouldn’t want to spend one
moment with a person you could not stand, so why pay to be miserable?! I urge you to spend time and scrutinize the methods of a prospective coach. A suggestion
would be to hire them for an hour to give you a private coaching session. Analyze how they treat you from the moment you contact them until you decide that this is the
coach for you and do not hesitate to say no thank you.
Below is a coaching checklist adapted from my own personal experience as an athlete who was coached and as a coach of athletes. Let it be known that the list is in no
particular order as I feel all of the points are important in the coaching decision process.
Benefits of Hiring an Athletic Coach
Most individuals do not hesitate to seek out expert advice from a tax advisor, accountant, lawyer, or physician, but when it comes to their training, they choose to do it
alone. After coaching hundreds of individuals, both recreational and competitive, Hammerhead can clearly demonstrate that working with a coach enables you to:
The Hammerhead coaching relationship takes place uses all methods of communication. While the logistics of the relationship are such that the coach is not present
during the actual implementation of the workouts, the Hammerhead coach still plays an important role in:
Coaches Vs. Personal Trainers
How does a Coach differ from a Personal Trainer? Many people confuse coaching with personal training or use the terms interchangeably. While both professionals
provide valuable services, there are important distinctions between the two. Click here to learn about the differences.
by Cristin Reichmuth as seen on www.irongirl.com
Stop for a moment. Think back to your school days and without a doubt, there is a teacher who stood above the rest in terms of being a great mentor and teacher to you.
Was this person especially kind? Were they understanding? Was it their presence that did it for you? Or possibly, this person was a great role-model? Whatever it was
that made that teacher special to you, you may want to take some extra time in finding a coach like that.
An athletic goal is a journey that can be completed alone by studying books, friend’s experiences or the Internet. Or, If you are fortunate enough to have the means, you
can hire a coach. When doing so, factor in extra time to find a coach that is right for you. I like to use the analysis of a bad date…you wouldn’t want to spend one
moment with a person you could not stand, so why pay to be miserable?! I urge you to spend time and scrutinize the methods of a prospective coach. A suggestion
would be to hire them for an hour to give you a private coaching session. Analyze how they treat you from the moment you contact them until you decide that this is the
coach for you and do not hesitate to say no thank you.
Below is a coaching checklist adapted from my own personal experience as an athlete who was coached and as a coach of athletes. Let it be known that the list is in no
particular order as I feel all of the points are important in the coaching decision process.
- Communication: Does your coach offer you plenty of opportunities to ask questions? Do they answer these questions? Do you learn from them? Are they a
preacher of their past accomplishments or a teacher of current methods? Do they explain the objectives of each workout so you can easily understand them?
How often will your coach be available to ask questions? - Goals: Are the goals of your coach achievement or goal oriented? Does the coach use this same approach when setting up his/her own training plan? Will they
take your goals into consideration when developing your annual training plan? - Personality: Is your potential coach an effective communicator? Does the coach have a personality and sense of humor? Do the willingly admit to mistakes? Do
they forgive you when you make a mistake? Do they deliver information in an understanding manner to all levels of athlete? Do you like this person? Is the coach
able to adapt to the communication style that works best for you? - Mentor: Is this coach someone you admire? Do they value the same things you do? Could you be friends with this person?
- Teacher: Is your coach willing to help expand your knowledge of the sport you love? Are they willing to get continuing education to keep up to date on the latest
information in your sport? Your coach should want you to succeed and do whatever is necessary to help you succeed. - Responsible: When you contacted this potential coach, did they call you back right away or when they said they would? Does your coach send your training
program when they say they will? Are they always late? Do they have integrity? Do they work well with other coaches? - Trust: Is the favourite part of the coaches’ day a gossip session? Do they talk about other athletes behind their backs? Does your coach believe in you or do they
just want your money? Are they more worried about losing you as a client than telling you what you need to hear? - Support: Is your coach supportive? Coaches should be your mentor, your friend, and at times, a counsellor to help you evolve mentally. If your coach isn't
supportive of you and your goals, that is okay, but look elsewhere. - Fun: Does your coach make your workouts fun and easy to follow? Without the element of fun, what is the point? Unless we are only shooting for a National Title
of the Olympics, then our training needs to be tempered with a note of levity along with the seriousness involved. - Experience: What is their coaching history? A good coach should have knowledge in the area where you need help. Will this coach allow you to speak with
present and past athletes? If so, be like Nike and Just Do It! - Certifications/Credentials: Is the coach certified in the governing body that you are interested in? What credentials does the coach have that may be an added
bonus to the type of coach you are looking for? Do they have a coaching resume? Are they involved with teams, the governing bodies, or continuing
education? Are they teaching current methods or are they happy with the old-school rules? - Philosophy: Does the coaching style of your prospective coach meet your needs?
Benefits of Hiring an Athletic Coach
Most individuals do not hesitate to seek out expert advice from a tax advisor, accountant, lawyer, or physician, but when it comes to their training, they choose to do it
alone. After coaching hundreds of individuals, both recreational and competitive, Hammerhead can clearly demonstrate that working with a coach enables you to:
- Achieve a greater level of fitness than you would on your own.
- Reduce your risk of injuries.
- Become a more knowledgeable and insightful individual.
- Remain accountable to your fitness goals by working with someone who is monitoring your performance.
The Hammerhead coaching relationship takes place uses all methods of communication. While the logistics of the relationship are such that the coach is not present
during the actual implementation of the workouts, the Hammerhead coach still plays an important role in:
- Monitoring workouts
- Providing feedback
- Helping individuals enhance and maintain their training motivation
- Helping their athletes train with a purpose
- Create and maintain a healthy balance throughout their life and teach tools that one can use for a lifetime
- Provide an outside objective opinion
Coaches Vs. Personal Trainers
How does a Coach differ from a Personal Trainer? Many people confuse coaching with personal training or use the terms interchangeably. While both professionals
provide valuable services, there are important distinctions between the two. Click here to learn about the differences.
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