I take more from the disappointments and failures than I ever will the victories. The good days are "easy" when everything comes together. Everyone is happy, everyone is excited, that's easy and "fun". The hard part is when it's on YOU for your athlete failing even if it's not on you. Yes there are some athlete accountability, but I think I take far more harder the failures than I do in the successes. I still remember in '14 when I drove to a DL race in Iowa (22 hours from NC). Athlete didn't have a good day, just never looked in it, etc. I beat myself up so badly with over analyzing every moment of the build up and the race, that I drove straight through except for a 40 min cat nap in West Virginia. I just couldn't turn off my thoughts on the day, so I kept driving. Race results like that to this day still eat at me, and motivate me to not let that happen again.

Hell Jamie Turner wins an olympic gold medal w/ an athlete, gets hired by a national federation and is then fired within 2.5 years of said moment after having the biggest coaching moment of their career.

Welcome to real coaching......

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Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II

Guess I should cancel my next call with my coach since we will have nothing to talk about that he wants to hear.

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The first time man split the atom was when the atom tried to hold Jens Voigt's wheel, but cracked.

LOL

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Brian Stover USAT LII
Accelerate3 Coaching
Insta

Elliot,

If you are sincerely interested in becoming a coach and making a career change, please feel free to contact me at any time. To be good, you need a lot of experience, a lot of experience from different points of view, a lot of time with athletes and many times you need to put your athletes first. It’s the best job ever and can be exceptionally rewarding.

If you want to become a coach to supplement your income, give yourself free time to live your life and to be sort of committed but not really, go away. Triathlon already has enough grifter “coaches” who aren’t any good and are just trying to find ways to squeeze a couple more bucks out of their “clients” with less “coaching.”

But like I said, if you want to learn, can put in a lot of time to a hard and at times frustrating job and are fully committed, I’ll be the first one to help you out.

Hope this helps,

Tim

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Brian


Thanks for your honesty. That's one of the best posts I've read on Slowtwitch. I've lived a lot of years, done a lot of sh*t and check in with Slowtwitch regularly. I enjoy your posts but this one really grabbed me.

Steve

Thanks for the awesome detailed and hilarious look into the realities of day to day coaching. Edited the quote above down for brevity and relevance to my response here. Completely agree.

To the OP, the bolded bits above are a couple of the things I love most about coaching as a career. Helping and connecting with people, on a very flexible schedule. I don't really desire days completely off when I enjoy what I do.

Thanks again Brian!

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Dr. Alex Harrison | Founder & CEO | Sport Physiology & Performance PhD
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