TBT: Coaching Coaches - The Unofficial Guide To Mastery ft. James Fitzgerald
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 59 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 | I'm trying to get harder and tougher mentally and physically every day in my life. |
| 0:04.3 | You're either the growth mindset or you're the fixed mindset. |
| 0:07.0 | If you're trying to be the best, you need to look at who the best is and see what they do. |
| 0:11.3 | Relentless pursuit of progress. |
| 0:14.2 | There is a difference between the best and the rest. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the Brute Strength podcast. |
| 0:22.3 | Champions are built in the morning first. |
| 0:24.3 | Where we interview scientists, world champions, doctors, and experts in just about every |
| 0:28.9 | area of health and fitness. |
| 0:30.5 | What do you care enough about? |
| 0:32.2 | What are you fascinated enough about to go so deep and learn so much that you'll know more about it than anyone else. |
| 0:39.2 | And now here's your host, Michael Cashew. |
| 1:05.6 | Thank you. Hello, welcome back. My name is Mike Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. This week's guest is James O.P.T. Fitzgerald. James is one of the OGs of CrossFit, and he is a true |
| 1:13.5 | legend in the sport as both an athlete and a coach. He was the 2007 CrossFit Games champion. |
| 1:20.4 | He's coached dozens of CrossFit Games athletes, has been the coach to hundreds of other |
| 1:25.1 | coaches through his OPEX training courses and in general |
| 1:29.1 | is one of the biggest thought leaders in the industry. First, we talk about mastery. James is |
| 1:35.7 | someone that I truly believe is on the path of coaching mastery. We talk about how he defines that, |
| 1:42.7 | the principles that he tries to follow, and how you |
| 1:46.6 | can adopt some of those practices and behaviors. We talk about the mistakes he sees programmers making. |
| 1:54.4 | We talk about program design, why simplicity is so important in training. And then we talk about |
| 2:00.4 | the art of communication. |
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