Coaching personalized to your journey
What can coaching look like for me?
Physical - Improving our strength and aerobic capacity is correlated to both improved performance and a decrease in all-cause mortality. Working together can include strength and conditioning, creating training plans for endurance events like your first 5k, long-course triathlon, or multiday hikes, and developing plans to keep up with grandkids, friends, or your dog!
Tactical - Going over strategic elements of different sports, analyzing video to go over decision-making in real time, and gaining a better understanding of the rules and strategies of your sport or event to help set yourself up for increased performances. This can include things like breaking down the course for a half-marathon to go over challenging spots and opportunities, looking at differences in singles vs doubles tennis or pickleball and how to make your opponents react to you.
Technical - Working together on improving the skills required to participate in your sport or event effectively. This can include things like improving running economy, learning to shoot a free throw in basketball, or learning how to swim in open water instead of a pool.
Coach Development - Coaches play a crucial role in so many lives, and while it’s easy to find hundreds of drills or exercises to do that might help your team next season, it is less obvious where to look to develop your own abilities as a coach. Developing your skills and competencies as a coach can help you improve not only what you are doing as a coach, but also understand the how and why behind your coaching, and create environments that promote psychological safety and develop resilience.
About Coaching Services
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Everyone can benefit from S&C!
The obvious connection comes from looking at sports and athletes or physically demanding performances (performing artists, officials, and tactical and occupational performers) and the value of improving the anatomy and physiology to meet the demands is clear.
For performers who might not see a direct connection to benefiting from S&C, studies have shown that increased physical fitness allows for improved management of stress, increased focus, and more productivity.
It has also been shown that improving your S&C has an effect on all cause mortality, meaning those who strength train and improve their aerobic capacity have increased life expectancy.
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As a former physical and health education teacher with a Masters of Education in Coaching Studies, I am familiar with both what the technical requirements are of a wide variety of sports, along with the knowledge and expertise on motor skill acquisition to help you develop your skills in a structured and evidence based manor. I also have completed numerous courses through the Coaching Association of Canada across multiple sports, providing a wide base of knowledge and abilities to pull insights and examples from a variety of sports to best support you.
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With endurance coaching and S&C, I find the Training Peaks platform is an effective source for you to track your progress and for us to build and review your training plan.
For technical coaching, reviewing video analysis online or in person while doing drills are beneficial. For more advanced coaching, I am familiar with programs like Dartfish for looking at biomechanical elements of your performance.
Ultimately, I believe that in order for you to make a sustainable change in your technical abilities, it all comes down to you being able to feel the difference when we make changes, so that you are able to be aware of when you are falling into old habits vs the new techniques. For this, often the best technology is simply asking questions and making adjustments and drawing awareness to specific areas of your body during movements so that you can feel yourself doing the correct movement and developing that neural pathway so that it comes with less thought and cognitive demand.