I've been wrestling with this for about 2 years now, and am struggling to finalize it. My goal is to explain my philosophy in 3-4 sentences, right now it's like an essay. my mission statement is almost complete, but i may change it.
Can you please post your philosophies and mission statements?
anyone? i thought this was a running site
Post an e-mail and I'll send you ours. It's a half page. Did it the first year I began coaching.
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!
I'm not a coach, but I imagine mine would probably look something like this:
Coaching philosophy - "Year round emphasis on aerobic development and multi pace training. Speed must be maintained at all times. Patient, consistent workload progressions from season to season and year to year. Greatest gains will be made long term, not short term."
Mission statement - "To improve the lives of our athletes by teaching them the value of hard work, healthy competition, and a commitment to excellence; and to instill in them a knowledge and love of fitness that will enable them to lead healthy lives."
To sift through the many wimpy athletes who constantly question my judgement knowing my extensive and successful background in the sport.
Good luck.
I think it is hard to sum up coaching philosophy in a few sentences. Take a bit more space and get it complete.
The following would be in my coaching philosopy:
Hard work
Patience
Use of multi-pace sessions
Never get far from speed
Enough mileage to do the job
Races at any stage of training as part of the training.
All athletes are individuals
Mission statement is much easier
"To help each athlete reach the standard they want to reach and are capable of reaching"
The key to that is that not every athlete wants to be the best they can be.
"Mission statement"?
Why must pretentious, empty, corporate-speak infect the rest of the world?
To get laid, my man!
how about you get off your lazy fat ass and think for yourself? If this is your way about puting together the mission statement, i cant imagine how lazy you are when it actually comes to coaching.
Thanks for the serious responses. Mine is somewhat close to most of yours.My mission statement thus far:"To deliver individualized training and a competitive racing experience to the institution's student-athletes."I'm trying to explain my philosophy in 1 sentence, so that it is clearly understood by the athletes, parents and the administration."Year-round aerobic and speed development, emphasizing correct running posture so the athlete may run faster, longer."
Mentally Capable wrote:
how about you get off your lazy fat ass and think for yourself? If this is your way about puting together the mission statement, i cant imagine how lazy you are when it actually comes to coaching.
On the contrary, like I said, i've been wrestling with this for 2 years. I started coaching seriously in 2006 and had a decent philosophy/ mission statement then. One that I made in 2002, but I didn't like it. I changed things up, and as I'm finalizing mine, I wanted to compare it to others. I view it as comparing my athlete's 1 mile time trials to other's 1 mile time trials. How is that lazy?
Is the term "mission statement" corporate-ese? in a sense, yes. However, people expect it, and in an effort to show that track and cross country are serious and worthy of respect, I think we should act like it.
Then you are either seriously misguided or just a pretentious blowhard.
Your job, as a coach is to make your athletes as good as they can be. Period. Full stop. That is the job of EVERY coach.
If your athletes are not not looking to become as good as they can, they're not athletes, they're dilettantes.
If you think you need to qualify that with anything else, you are missing the point and should get the hell out of coaching now.
I also mention developing character in my athletes, not only good performances.
Go long and go hard or go home.
papally fallible wrote:
Then you are either seriously misguided or just a pretentious blowhard.
Your job, as a coach is to make your athletes as good as they can be. Period. Full stop. That is the job of EVERY coach.
If your athletes are not not looking to become as good as they can, they're not athletes, they're dilettantes.
If you think you need to qualify that with anything else, you are missing the point and should get the hell out of coaching now.
Sorry, but I disagree. That may be the sole job of a pro or college coach who recruits and whose job is based on wins and losses. As a high (and middle) school coach, my job is to provide a program that allows every athlete a chance to achieve at the highest level they can, while providing a quality team experience that builds character and teaches lessons you can't get in a classroom. PART of the job is the part about becoming as good as you can, but certainly not all.
LFD
Long Fast Distance.
I've been coaching for 19 years and have only had one stress fracture in my athletes. Anybody who commits improves greatly too.
gamecock wrote:
As a high (and middle) school coach, my job is to provide a program that allows every athlete a chance to achieve at the highest level they can, while providing a quality team experience that builds character and teaches lessons you can't get in a classroom. PART of the job is the part about becoming as good as you can, but certainly not all.
I thought the other guys were pompous but this is priceless.
Let me get this straight. You are a MIDDLE SCHOOL coach with a f***ing MISSION STATEMENT?
Could you possibly take yourself more seriously?
just run , baby.
"Slow and steady wins the race"
...unless it's a real race.
outlaw wrote:
I've been wrestling with this for about 2 years now, and am struggling to finalize it. My goal is to explain my philosophy in 3-4 sentences, right now it's like an essay. my mission statement is almost complete, but i may change it.
Can you please post your philosophies and mission statements?
If you don't enjoy what you are doing, you'll never really succeed. Find a way to thoroughly love the sport. Change what you are doing if it's a drag.
Primarily, you must work on your strengths.
Coe and Ovett swapped WRs in 79-81. Did they train the same way? I don't think so, eh? Copying what someone does or what a System dictates is not neccessarily the answer for you.