Coach G

In this profession, you are going to experience career limbo. Sometimes you don’t know where you’re going next — or if you’ll even have a job next season.

The success of your program depends on your ability to balance what your head coach wants to do, what you want to do, and what your team really needs.

Whatever your plans are for breaking into this industry, forget them. It’s never going to work out how you plan.

Breaking into this profession is difficult and requires determination and sacrifice but if you’re in it for the right reasons, that won’t be a problem.

I have made the mistake of letting other programs distract me from my own. It is a waste of time and effort and I vow to never do it again.

Your actions from Day One will determine the success of your program and athletes. Know your philosophy and have a plan for executing it.

Sometimes working through adversity feels like a task you cannot possibly do on your own. Here are some ways to keep you going when things get tough.

Build your winning culture the same way you build in the weight room: every session, every set, and every rep leading to game day.

Wins and losses? Injury prevention? Fourth-quarter dominance?

If you don’t trust your staff, you’ll try to do everything yourself. If you try to do everything yourself, you will fail. Break the cycle.

It may seem simple or it may seem stupid, but does it produce results?

Your influence on the team will make or break every meeting, training session, and game. Here’s one simple way to remember how you should act.

Getting the most out of your athletes starts with bringing on the right coaches.

Mentoring athletes is a given. Here are four other benefits of the profession.

Stepping back and looking over the years of your career, the reasons for your steady progress become apparent.

Avoid these career-crushing errors that most strength coaches inadvertently commit.

It takes more than two-a-days and Prowler pushes to win conference championships.

A top-tier coach shares a normal day at the DI level.

This article is dedicated to all those involved in the greatest season for strength coaches…the summer!

To achieve success, you must first place yourself among success.

You can’t lead while sitting on your ass!

The coaching carousel is in full swing.

The first thing you should do before every journey is figure out how you will reach the final destination.

One of the most important rules that I can’t stress enough to other coaches, assistants, interns, and anyone else who will listen is that SAQ is not conditioning!

Coach G returns to talk about the building blocks of strength and conditioning.

Selling your program to the various sport coaches and administrators is one of the biggest tests you will face as a strength coach.

All of these weird creatures were trying to go see someone they did not know to ask him to give them something they already had.

If we keep pulling in opposite directions, we’ll never get anywhere.

Have confidence in your abilities, program, ideas, and gut feelings.

Coach G shares his thoughts about his experience at the CSCCa annual convention.

Be a leader, be loyal, pay attention to detail, have a strong work ethic, and do not be a weight room reptile.

One word can change the entire meaning of a phrase.

Part of being a successful coach is making the most out of what you have.

Can you answer the six honest serving men?

If you do not have that “whatever it takes “ mentality, then don’t try to get into coaching.