And I came to a realization. I do my very best lifting (and I got my PR yesterday) when the coach's back is turned away from me. I know that our coaches are there to make sure that our form is good and that we don't get hurt. And please, if I am doing something that will lead to injury, tell me! But not in the middle of my lift. When the bar is coming off the ground and THEN you tell me that my form sucks, that's just distracting. Tell me those things in the warm up. Tell me that when I am working with the empty bar or starting to add weight. Please don't tell me that in the middle of my lift.
It's true with dead lifts too. I always PR when the box is full of people and the coach is talking to someone else. If I have a coach in my face telling me to get mad. Don't think about it. Keep my a@@ down. FOCUSING too much on what I am doing, it's distracting. I never do well on those days. I need a nice balanced mix of making sure that I'm not doing something really horribly, and leaving me alone to get inside my own head, getting my own concentration in the right place, so that I can just pick up the bar.
Every coach has their own coaching style (and every coach in our box is really good at what they do) and the number of people doing the WOD with you makes a difference, I just know that for myself, I do better without an audience.
TODAY WAS SUPER EXCITING. Like sparkly hearts and unicorns exciting. We did a test WOD two weeks ago that included rowing for calories, pull ups, back squats and push presses. We got a score. Today we did the same test and in only two weeks I increased my score by 12 points. I love to see progress like that. It's measurable and I can own it. The work I put in in the last two weeks made me better. I love it.
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One of the hardest lessons for me to learn as a new coach was when to stop coaching, and just let the athlete work their way through the learning process.
ReplyDeleteI think it's fine for you to let a coach know that you'd love their assessment after you lift, but that you need some quiet before and during to perform your best.
So glad to hear you're making progress, and also congrats on busting out of your back squat plateau recently! It's all up from here!
That would be very distracting. I feel blessed to have a great coach, he seems to always be in the right place at the right time. I think it's a gift he has.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your PR!!!! :)