Jesse Mecham: Know Your Purpose - The Professional Transition Series S13E1
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🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Lifting regularly and interested in learning more about lifting and coaching? Jesse shares his story of lifting, coaching, studying in the Barbell Academy, and ultimately deciding to not pursue coaching professionally and how the Barbell Academy helped him realize this.
CJ Gotcher talks to Jesse Mecham, Founder of YNAB and Barbell Academy student, about his experience going through the academy. Jesse came to lifting in his teens, reading a special edition of Muscle and Fitness magazine that covered Arnold Scharzenegger. His first experience with coaching came from someone warning about hurting his back from deadlifting, which scared him away from simple, hard, effective training for a while. He continued to lift.
Eventually, he found Barbell Logic and a more effective approach to strength training. Jesse, someone who applies himself at anything he does and wants to do anything he does well, built a garage gym and invited others to lift with him. His role evolved into somewhat of a coaching role, and as this occurred he signed up for the Barbell Academy to help deepen his knowledge of programming and coaching.
As he completed the Academy, he learned a lot and was better able to program and cue his fellow lifters. He even arranged a Barbell Logic seminar at his gym, which not only helped improve his coaching but also helped the other lifters learn to better identify and fix their own errors.
Despite this, he ultimately decided to NOT pursue becoming a professional barbell coach, with his other commitments of family and running a business.
In addition to this, CJ & Jesse talk about productivity and setting up the first coaching arrangement so you don't grow resentful.
Many coaches coach their first lifters for free, and this makes sense, but you have to ensure you set up the situation so you receive value as well. Experience is valuable, but see if you can get the lifters to provide testimonials or other means of providing you value as you grow as a coach--and potentially grow a business.
Jesse & CJ also discuss balancing your natural tendencies as a coach. Some coaches tend to be too timid and need to work on assertiveness, confidence, and being loud. Others, however, may insert themselves readily and easily and need to not overcue.
They finish talking about being relentless about what you care about: spend the time, effort, and money where you want to. This requires intentionality and planning. This means limiting and managing distractions, being honest about things that take up your time but don't provide value, blocking off times for deep work and self-improvement and preventing distractions during these blocks.
This podcast will provide value wherever you are and show how the Barbell Academy can help, even if you never become a professional barbell coach.
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| 1:18.8 | Welcome to the Barbell Logic Podcast Professional Transition Series. |
| 1:22.7 | I'm your host, Ceeja Goacher, and for these next episodes, I'll be interviewing a range |
| 1:27.0 | of guests, all at different stages of the coach's journey, who navigated the transition |
| 1:32.0 | from novice to next, finding creative ways to bring their passion for strength and health |
| 1:37.2 | to others, in a way more aligned with their VIP, their values, identities and priorities. |
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