Now, it’s time to get our hands dirty… Let’s start with the internship search. You have to ask yourself what you want. Assuming you want to be a strength and conditioning coach, ask yourself the following questions (part two of three).

This is a question that we need to ask ourselves as many times as possible year after year because everything we do on a daily basis needs to be grounded on our answer.

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about internships, all in one place.

You’ll learn a lot from your strength and conditioning internship — but there are some things you might glean over. Keep these points in mind, and you’ll get even more out of your internship than you thought possible.

A few pro tips from Coach Matt Rhodes: Not everything you learn in a book can be applied to strength and conditioning. Open your mind to new ideas and influences, and learn how your mentor wants things down.

Matt Rhodes’ takeaway lessons for strength coaches in this clip: Put your best foot forward. Stop screaming and start communicating. Hold yourself accountable. Do better and be better.

Honestly, there are so many that I could go on forever. Within my sarcastic tone, I hope the message that comes across is simple.

You can be the smartest nutrition or training coach in the world, but if you don’t know how to actually help people your business will fail.

Mike Gittleson once told me that becoming a good coach means learning to use your voice as a weapon. This changed everything about my mindset to communicating with my team.

This is a difficult issue to balance because people expect us to be over the top and screaming all the time. I’m asking that we raise the level of professionalism.

In the realm of strength and conditioning, you are always selling yourself to administrators, athletic directors, sport coaches, your boss, athletes, recruits, and everyone else around you. Will they like what they see?

In sports performance, sometimes you need to shut up, take a seat in the back of the room, and learn before you are ready to lead from the front.

Through education and planning, avoid these gym-owner mistakes.

This industry is a sea of turds, full of ‘coaches’ with no credentials and no right to be training anyone. Let’s fix that.

A lot of people on this planet can read what you wrote, so choose your words carefully.

I like to think that, as a profession, we’re much better than we were.