Strength Training 101: TRAIN WITH PROGRESSIONS!! This isn’t a difficult concept, yet I come in contact with so many coaches and personal trainers who either choose not to or don’t know how to use progressions with their programming.
Your athletes and clients must EARN THE RIGHT TO PROGRESS!!! If we just assume that they have the ability to do complex movements, then we expose them to injury and decrease performance by putting them in a position where they aren’t going to be successful.
Sure, that makes sense and sounds great, but at the end of the day, most coaches are as much about themselves as anything. They want to simplify their lives and make managing their athletes and clients easier. A simple answer is to train with progressions. Starting simple and layering complexity on top of something that you know they can do makes coaching damn simple. I learned the hard way and finally got sick of banging my head against the wall by trying to teach things that they weren’t ready for. The minute I began to understand progressions, my coaching life became very simple and easy.
Here, I talk about a simple squat progression as an example. Feel free to use it, but at the end of the day, I don’t really care if you use my progression or not. Just have a progression!!
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