Most annoying track coach habits?

HS girl wrote:

Showering together with us.

Male or female coach?

Sweat til ya die wrote:

Keep your warmups on, I don't care if it's 100 degrees out!

^This

Also, having all of the team at the track doing a warm-up at 730am even though half the team wont race for 5 hours. Way to set us up for success, coach!

"Sweep the leg" Soooo annoying.

Saying hip flexors so much that we made it a drinking game

Kook! wrote:

Sweat til ya die wrote:

Would you prefer C3H6O3 instead of lactic acid??

What would you even say in place of fartlek?

Most people use the words incorrectly to make themselves sound smart, in order to justify their coaching pedigree.

I prefer people who can speak words that their athletes, parents and ADs will understand and respond to appropriately.

Answer the FARTLEK question....

It's annoying when a coach brags about recruiting here, there and everywhere and yet his team perpetually has about six guys on it.

"We've got an up and coming program"

"We're in the hunt to make nationals"

"You won't be able to make our team"(and their team sucks)

"You're not fast enough to run at that school" (that school is significantly better academically and they won't be running there)

Cuckoo-land wrote:

Kook! wrote:

Most people use the words incorrectly to make themselves sound smart, in order to justify their coaching pedigree.

I prefer people who can speak words that their athletes, parents and ADs will understand and respond to appropriately.

Answer the FARTLEK question....

If it means speedplay, as many people believe (i think it's a conspiracy the euro's did to convince us americans to use one of our funny/ rude words in everyday circles, and then they laugh at us), then i would use the english translation.

to be more specific, when i coached, i would do a lot of race simulation type workouts in the last few weeks of the track/ xc season, which is a lot like the continuous surge/recover style workout. athletes seemed to enjoy it, and we had good success with it.

Not explaining the purpose/goal of each day's work load.. even if it's to recover.

Disappearing the second we get to a meet. Spends all his time hanging with other coaches, no attention to his athletes on the track.

Requiring us to provide many page hits on letsrun.com. Forced us to get VPNs to be appearing to come in from different IP addresses.

Coaches who just start yelling "good job" as soon as the gun goes off.

First, there's nothing constructive about "good job!". Second, they're 5 steps into the goddam race, maybe they're doing a shitty job and you're lying to them. Why be a liar?!?! Or, umm, "alternative fact-sayer" I mean

The most annoying track coach habit is every single sprint coach in the god damn country screaming MOOOOVE all the way through a 200 or 400. Wow, that's great coaching boys!

HS girl wrote:

Showering together with us.

pics

I thought I was the only one.

HS girl wrote:

Showering together with us.

"I've run 20 marathons, this is how you stick pass"

Funny reading these. I'm a track distance coach, and have to bit my lip listening to other coaches (ours and opponents) say things that don't make any sense. Two of the best ones have been mentioned...wearing sweats/warmups no matter what the temp (sprinter coach thing I think?)..."GOTTA GET OUT!!!" (while I'm thinking "no you don't, but go ahead, my kids will be passing you in a few minutes").

But my biggest pet peeve; "Close your mouth and breathe through your nose." ???!!! Wtf is that???

Male coaches who love hugging and massaging their female athletes.

Larry83 wrote:

It's annoying when a coach brags about recruiting here, there and everywhere and yet his team perpetually has about six guys on it.

Fontbonne?

When a head track & field coach tallies the # of conference champions during his or her "helm" of the program and assumes credit of subordinate assistant coaching results in their online resume.