We're extremely proud to announce our partnership with OPEX Fitness, a leader in the coaching and coaching of coaches space. Their name speaks for itself - they've worked with tens of thousands of clients worldwide, written over a million programs, produced over 50 CrossFit Games competitors, 500 CrossFit Games Regionals competitors, and their leader, James (OPT) Fitzgerald, was the champion of the inaugural CrossFit …
The Challenge Of Distance Coaching
Article by guest contributer, Greg Deitz. One of the many hats that I wear is to work with some athletes remotely. This presents an all new level of difficulty to an already difficult field of strength and conditioning. It is not simply writing down a program and saying go. There is and always will be one central challenge to any distance coach and that is the ability to monitor and actually coach their …
TrueCoach Partners With Central Athlete
Before writing the first line of code for TrueCoach, we knew that a powerful and high-quality exercise library with great demo videos was going to be a key feature for both coaches & their clients. We analyzed the existing video libraries on the market, and noticed a few problems: poor to mediocre quality, horrendous form that put clients at risk, or, really great & in-depth content, but too long for the …
Programming To Scale
Article by guest contributer, Sean Pastuch I have always heard of athletes talking about their remote coach, like the man behind the curtain or a mythical creature there is this seemingly wise person out there writing programming that turns average people into savages. When I started digging deeper into what kind of work is being programmed for athletes, I noticed that there is really nothing revolutionary out …
Online Coaching – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Article by guest contributer, Pat McCarty As a coach and programmer, my week is spent in an ever-flowing river of data. I send out programming to my coaching clients, they receive it, they do the training, they video some of the movements, upload the video to their blog, log their results, I review the results, and the cycle begins again. In fact, my ability to be effective as a coach depends on technology. There …