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How to find a coach who actually programs for you, not for Instagram.

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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The seven questions.

QUESTION 01

Show me the program.

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.

QUESTION 02

Have you trained someone like me?

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.

QUESTION 03

Show me a progression, not a transformation.

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.

QUESTION 04

What is the cancellation policy?

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.

QUESTION 05

Whose credentials do they have?

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.

QUESTION 06

What happens the week life happens?

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.

QUESTION 07

What happens when your numbers stall?

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.

About the author.

Edwin Grant coached hybrid athletes for six years before building Marrow. He has seen what good coaching looks like up close and what aesthetic coaching looks like up close. This PDF is the screen he wishes every athlete used before paying anyone.

"Instagram does not filter for who is qualified to coach. The seven questions in this PDF do."

Edwin Grant, founder of Marrow