Is it just me or are these prices extremely high? The track clubs where I live cost around 1000$ a year, and the coaches are much more qualified than these coaches. I don't see how 200$/month - 2400$ a year for remote coaching is worth it.
Is it just me or are these prices extremely high? The track clubs where I live cost around 1000$ a year, and the coaches are much more qualified than these coaches. I don't see how 200$/month - 2400$ a year for remote coaching is worth it.
So, branching out into field and forestry events? Cool.
If I were paying for a plan, I'd pay someone far more proven like NAZ Elite, and by the way pay less.
they need to hire a proper graphics design guy.
the Tinman Elite, TTC and H&A logos are all god awful.
I don’t know what to think about paying for private coaching. I only say that because I’ve ran in HS and college and had some good coaches and picked up on what they’ve said and supplemented that with reading a ton over the years, so I have the confidence to write my own training now. But I do see how having a coach can hold people accountable and give them a good knowledge base if they weren’t coached well for free when they had the chance. I also know a lot of people need to put some money down to hold themselves accountable.
And $200 a month? Come on
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they need to hire a proper graphics design guy.
the Tinman Elite, TTC and H&A logos are all god awful.
Hey, Sam Parsons is definitely a creative director who definitely didn’t give himself that title for a legit company that has done real creative work!
Overpriced private coaching when millions have lost their jobs. Talking about white privilege...
I guess I don’t really get it. Like, it’s just Tinman training, right? Like if Drew Hunter or one of the other guys coaches you using some different philosophy, then that means they must not really believe in their own training from Tinman?
These insane people who buy $50 t-shirts with a little symbol on it just want to shell out $$$ to say they talk to a pro runner weekly.
More than a page in and JS hasn't surfaced. What is going on?!
Next, he'll probably put some videos up on masterclass...
Although it seems like a good idea for the athletes to have a side hussle, the pricing seems off.
$200/month is steep, especially compared with local track clubs and even other online coaching platforms. If you want to be coached by an elite, I'm sure there are lots of options (pretty that's what Ryan Hall is doing-RunFree). I am personally self-coached, but if I did go for that option I'd 1)support local, where I'm at, the nearest track club does online coaching with a weekly email discussion for $50/month. or 2) would want to go with more experienced (competent) coaches out there (NAZ, Telos running, RUNSmart, etc.)
rungeek13 wrote:
Although it seems like a good idea for the athletes to have a side hussle, the pricing seems off.
$200/month is steep, especially compared with local track clubs and even other online coaching platforms. If you want to be coached by an elite, I'm sure there are lots of options (pretty that's what Ryan Hall is doing-RunFree). I am personally self-coached, but if I did go for that option I'd 1)support local, where I'm at, the nearest track club does online coaching with a weekly email discussion for $50/month. or 2) would want to go with more experienced (competent) coaches out there (NAZ, Telos running, RUNSmart, etc.)
This isn't really aimed at the LRC hoi polloi, clearly. This is a crowd that mocks Tracksmith's pricing model. No, TME is clearly hot with teenage Instagram bois and there are plenty of spoiled kids with wealthy parents among them. It's like paying for online vocal lessons from a boy band. I have little doubt they'll make their money on this.
This seems like it's going to be a nightmare for any good/decent coaches out there. I know this, because I am one of them who is already dealing with a kid wanting to do this.
Sure, the coaches who suck likely don't care (which is why they suck) so if someone says "hey I'm paying this person to coach me" they won't care because on a local level they can brag about said runner being fast and it helps their team out without any effort.
But there's going to be a ton of very good coaches that are going to get blindsided by kids thinking that because their current coach isn't Drew hunter or some other instagram famous runner, that they aren't any good - regardless of their track record of developing runners.
The entire thing reeks of self-importance and elitism, seeing as they all talk about how they'll "work with the current coach." Basically - we're better than you and we're going to tell you about it on a daily basis.
Again, for kids who don't have a coach, or one that is the assistant basketball coach looking for an extra paycheck, this kind of thing is great - they should have resources to be able to have a coach who is knowledgable and who cares - but I feel they're (along with Tinman, CCG, etc.) going to end up using fame/clout to start to break apart good runners from good HS coaches just because they want to be part of the cool group being coached by a professional.
But it will of course succeed, because like one poster already said, their target audience is spoiled rich kids who are going to force their parents to pay for this.