by jesse.hutchins | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog, Intern
Personally, I found this week’s education extremely helpful. So often we are taught the qualities and scientific information it takes to be a great strength coach, but seldom is the advice given that helps new professionals get their first strength coaching job....
by jesse.hutchins | Jul 29, 2013 | Blog, Intern
Unlike the past education sessions throughout this summer-long internship, this week’s education touched upon several different skills. All of which had the same underlying focus: stability and center of gravity (COG). The aforementioned skills included running...
by jesse.hutchins | Jul 23, 2013 | Blog, Intern
For this week’s education session, we focused on agility, change-of-direction movements. Some that we performed were bounding (lateral), hopping, and jumping. Though these three movements can be easily confused with each other, there is a difference between...
by jesse.hutchins | Jul 17, 2013 | Blog, Intern
This week’s education session consisted of revisiting the subject that was broached in my Walking the Walk (click the link) post from a couple of weeks back. This time around, the format of the education session was switched-up a bit. Instead of evaluating each...
by jesse.hutchins | Jul 1, 2013 | Blog, Intern
This week our Cahill-coached education session focused on knowing how to coach specific movements correctly, and knowing how to perform them correctly ourselves. Aside from these skills, we also discussed the reasons why it is important to possess them. It is one...