Coaching Coaches: The Unofficial Guide To Mastery ft. James Fitzgerald
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Brute Strength Podcast, I’m interviewing of the CrossFit OG’s, James Fitzgerald. James was the 2007 CrossFit Games champion as an individual, since then he’s made a big splash in the fitness world as the founder of OPEX Fitness. Aside for an incredible athlete, James has entered the realm of Master Coach. In this episode we get to learn about some of James’ inspirations and mentors as a coach, as well as mastery, the art of program design, bodybuilding, and of course, CrossFit. If you want to hear from a guy making waves in the fitness world, then James is your man. Enjoy the show.
Topics:
02:23 - Teach, learn, move, create
11:15 - Mastery
17:35 - Charles Poloquin
20:18 - Hierarchy of needs for coaches
24:09 - CrossFit & Bodybuilding
29:45 - Common mistakes in programing
40:02 - Thoughts on Matt Fraser and his career so far
44:25 - The importance of rituals
47:40 - Practice what you preach!
52:00 - Characteristics of a good coach
Honorable mentions:
Mel Siff
Charles Poloquin
Ian King
Louie Simmons
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Books:
How To Eat, Move, and Be Healthy - Chek
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body brute. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. This week's guest is James O.P.T. Fitzgerald. James is one of the |
| 0:35.6 | OGs of Cross Fit and he is a true legend in the sport as both an athlete and |
| 0:40.7 | a coach. He was the 2007 Cross Fit Games champion. He's coached dozens of |
| 0:45.8 | Cross Fit Games athletes, has been the coach to hundreds of other coaches through his |
| 0:50.8 | OPEC training courses and in general is one of the biggest thought |
| 0:54.6 | leaders in the industry. First we talk about mastery. James is someone that I |
| 1:00.9 | truly believe is on the path of coaching mastery. |
| 1:05.0 | We talk about how he defines that, the principles that he tries to follow, |
| 1:09.5 | and how you can adopt some of those practices and behaviors. |
| 1:15.8 | We talk about the mistakes he sees programmers making. |
| 1:18.6 | We talk about program design, why simplicity |
| 1:21.8 | is so important in training. |
| 1:23.0 | And then we talk about the art of communication. |
| 1:26.0 | So we go into leadership, communication, and more. |
| 1:30.0 | While I don't agree with everything James believes I respect the hell out of what he's doing and what he's created at Opex |
| 1:39.2 | I learned a ton from this and it is just full of little gems. I know you're going to love the |
| 1:44.4 | show. Before we get started if you haven't done so already I would really |
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