What Your Coach is For

[Spikes]

A poster here made the comment that we should ask our coach for help because that is what they are there for. But I know that my coach also does so much other stuff, and I am not the only person that he coaches. He tends to work most with the best, and the worst, and the rest of us tend to get on with it.

So do people here generally have the money for one on one coaching? Do you work with a team mate mentor? Or do you share a coach, like most people I know do?

My coach is for sure not omnipotent and doesn't have the answers to everything, and so yes I think that talking to other T&F athletes may help me to glean the information I need to improve my technique.

[grasshopper]

The only coach I have is the one through my school so I share him with other people. There are some things the coach really is there for, such as helping you develop a program thats best for you, or what you need to work on, what you did right. I obviously do use the internet to get a second, thirs, or twelth opinion as well.

[Run4Fun]

I guess you guys are not as fortunate as me, but school has a coach in each different set of events (sprints, hurdles, jumping, etc..) then we also have a head coach that takes care of all the meet organization and things like that. We also have a weight training coach, a trainer, and a store that gives us free shirts if we want them. It's pretty awesome, but I guess that's what you get when your team has won the state championships for the last 6 years.

[Kelly]

I'd agree that yes, winning like that would be a good incentive to keep things going! I am sure that is a whole lot of prestige for your school.

I share a coach too. I never really thought about it in the past being a bad thing, but compared to you, it isn't much cop. We get by but definitely I find myself supplementing my coaching as it were by getting advice from other sources.

[wingedsandals]

I share a coach as well, but I go to an incredibly small school and we're lucky to have a track and field team at all. We place well most times, but there simply will never be enough funding for the handful that compete to have more than one coach, although we do tend to get new equipment yearly.