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?
Club coaches often interfere and could put doubt in your athlete regarding training. Personal trainers can work well if you're on the same page. Talk to the trainer explain when and how you train and when they need will need to be fresh to race. I have a colleague whose weight coach, a personal trainer, had the kids do too much squatting before an important met and kids didn't qualify and one got hurt and didn't recover. This ended badly for all.
I think club coaches could be a bigger hindrance. 1) they may have a different training philosophy 2) they may have their own agenda 3) too many bad mouth other coaches perhaps because they have a financial interest and probably for other reasons too.
A personal trainer could be a good addition if you two are on the same page. A good PT should be willing to work with the coach and adjust workouts around training and meets during the season (and off season as well). I spend a lot of time working with people who want to be PTs and few have even a decent understanding of endurance sports. So a good PT should work with you like a strength and conditioning coach at a college would work with a coach.
Sit down and work to educate the PT. You might learn some stuff as well.
What is wrong with trainers? They are the absolute best at preventing injury! I mostly use trainers, except during races.
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.
Olympic Truth wrote:
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.
Coaching and Personal Training are very similar in that there is no quality control.
Alan
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