SNR #132: Tony Gentilcore - How to Be an Effective, Successful Coach
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 ā¢ 626 Ratings
šļø 26 July 2016
ā±ļø 46 minutes
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Summary
Episode 132: Tony GentilcoreĀ discusses his philosophy on coaching, what skills are vital to effective coaching, strategies to develop as a coach, mistakes that coaches can often make and how to help clients get the best results possible.Ā
Tony Gentilcore is one of the co-founders of Cressey Sports Performance and helped develop that brand and facility for many years. Now Tony is coaching out of Boston, MA where he is a much sought-after coach, as well as contributing to many of the most well-known fitness publications on the web.
In this episode we discuss:
- Tony's coaching philosophy
- TheĀ skills that are vital to effective coaching
- Tweaks, progressions and regressions to tailor programs to client needs and circumstances
- Strategies that coaches can use toĀ develop into the bestĀ coach they can be
- Mistakes that coaches can often make and how to learn from them
- Reasons why intermediate lifters fail to progress
- Helping clients get the best results possible in a manner that is right for that individual
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's bullshit whenever someone says, oh, I've learned all there is to learn. |
| 0:15.0 | And I have come across fitness professionals who have said that. |
| 0:26.6 | If they use three words, if they use everyone, always and never, his red flag goes up. |
| 0:31.6 | You can learn from everyone in every book you read. |
| 0:34.6 | Another thing that drives me bonkers is when I see, I get on Facebook or Instagram |
| 0:38.9 | or I see reviews for whatever books and I'm like, I didn't learn anything. |
| 0:44.5 | That's bullshit. |
| 0:45.7 | You learn, you just chose not to learn something. Hello and welcome. My name is Danny Lennon and you are listening to episode 132 of Sigma Nutrition Radio, |
| 1:16.1 | the podcast that gives you access to weekly discussions with the world's leaders in evidence-based nutrition, health and performance. |
| 1:24.1 | And today I'm delighted to have Tony Gentlecore on to give a bit of an insight into his philosophy and approach to coaching, which I know will certainly be useful to a number of you who work in fitness or nutrition or one-on-one with someone in any capacity. But I also think that the ideas here are transferable to many other areas as well. |
| 1:46.7 | So for those you outside of that fitness industry realm, listen with the kind of open mind and |
| 1:52.1 | maybe pick apart some useful bits of wisdom that Tony does get into around some of his |
| 1:58.1 | philosophies and how he structures things. For a bit of background for those who are maybe unfamiliar, |
| 2:03.6 | Tony is one of the co-founders of Cressy Sport Performance, |
| 2:07.6 | which has just an outstanding reputation in the strength and conditioning world. |
| 2:12.6 | And in more recent times, Tony has actually moved to another facility |
| 2:16.6 | closer to his home |
| 2:18.7 | in Boston, where he continues to work in the trenches every day with all sorts of clients. |
| 2:26.2 | And Tony is also really, really top level when it comes to putting out written content. |
| 2:32.7 | You can find it all over the web, but |
| 2:34.2 | particularly if you go to his blog at tony genitalcourt.com, you'll see some really good, |
| 2:39.5 | not only quality information, but really well-written stuff and accessible for people. |
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