interference or distraction wrote:
HS coaches, what have your experiences been with athletes who rely on personal trainers or club coaches?
How do you deal with parents who enlist PTs to work with their kids?
Is this too much of an interference or distraction?
any positives from the coach's perspective?
As a former coach, my experience has been that 90% of the coaches know about as little as the PT. Both know very little about actual training. The PT think they know it all becasue they use big words, and have worked with a few dozen kids. While most coaches think that their team won because of their program and philosihpy, which in th 20-30 years I have been involved, has never happened. They had talented kids at a big school.
And I have also been the PT on the other side, and I need to completely contradict the coach in order to achieve results. I got a female to almost PR in 400 and PR in 100 in 2 months. Then watch the school ruin her and she barely improved her 400 in 4 years.
For me the overall knowledge base is the problem, and I can see how it is difficult to train an entire team in a specific way.