You are giving them too much

Not the wrong technical knowledge. Just too much of it, too soon.

Worth and approval aren't the same thing

A post this week got the difference badly wrong. Here's where...

The organ grinder and the monkey.

The days I coach best are the days I say the least.

If you can't remember their name, you're not coaching them

Three Fingers Pointing Back

The question I ask four times

What Linda taught me about listening properly.

The qualification you think you need before coaching over-50s

You don't. The barrier was never knowledge.

Winning the argument doesn't end the argument

You don't think your way to confidence

The reps come first. The confidence follows.

The hard part was never the training

Your client already knows how to squat. That's not what's stopping them turning up.

The want doesn't go away

Just because you understand it doesn't mean it goes away.

The question I don't hear coaches ask enough

What are you actually here to do?