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Most athletes pick a coach by Instagram aesthetics or price. That is how you end up with someone who is making it up week by week. These seven screening questions filter out the coaches Instagram does not filter for. Yours free, by email.
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Do they have a written program written down for you, or are they making it up week by week? A real coach can hand you a phase outline before week one starts.
Have they ever coached someone with your specific goal or constraint, or are you their first? Hyrox, masters 40+, postpartum, return from injury, tactical. Specificity matters.
Can they walk you through a former client's training arc, with permission, from week one to week twenty-four? Or do they only show before-and-after photos? The progression is the proof.
Is it written down? Can they email it to you before you pay? A coach with a real practice has a real policy. A coach who improvises has whichever policy benefits them that day.
Real credentials recognized by a real federation, or self-certified course completions? NSCA, ACSM, NASM, USAW, CSCS. Or a $99 weekend course nobody has heard of. The difference is everything.
Travel, kids sick, work blew up. How do they handle the week you cannot train? A real coach has a fallback structure. A bad coach guilts you, or vanishes, or charges anyway.
When the lift stops moving and the bodyweight stops dropping, do they change the program, or do they tell you to try harder? The first is coaching. The second is not.