10 Key Traits Of Great Coaches

1. Connect with the best

If you regularly with the best coaches your standards and expectations will be much higher. You will coach better.
Do this locally and globally across all your key areas of interest.

2. Train Better

Nemo dat quod non habet.
If you don't have a bodyweight snatch, 60-second handstand, or 2.5x bodyweight deadlift you're unlikely to get elite results from your athletes.
Get better.
It will be challenging.
As you solve the challenges you will be able to help others do the same.
Make the decision to become a RealMVMT Black Belt and a new world of performance will open for you.

3. Travel

If you're not traveling regularly you're not being cultivated optimally as a human. It's both the knowledge and experience of traveling that are essential.

4. Know the best movements

Understand ascending and descending force curves.
Understand the importance of where the sticking point is.
Understand anabolic vs neural movements.
Experiment but know that there is not a lot going to change beyond tweaks and slight improvements in cueing and positions.

5. Execute the best movements

Choose the right load.
Know when to end your sets.
Get the range of motion and tempo right for the movement.

6. Program for success

Know the difference between training for size vs strength.
Don't use too many movements.
Get the volume and intensity right.

7. Practice Skills

Strength and range alone are nothing without the ability to use them with dexterity.
Build that dexterity.

8. Range Is Key

Range Of Strength.
You can't be strong in a position you can't reach.
Fighting your body's own resting tension causes injuries and decreases performance.

9. Speak Strong

How can I help you?
The coach's role is to serve the athlete. To help them unwrap their gifted potential.
Communicate powerfully through a range of voices.

10. Consistency is endurance

This is a life journey.
Show up.
Get better.
Repeat.
It takes 9 months to see the baby you made.
It takes a lifetime (or maybe more) to see who you can become.