The Importance of Technical Thinking in Coaching

Coaching is a very weird discipline because you understand like, all right, well, if you want to lift as much weight as possible, it's got to be very technical. But then if you get somebody that doesn't respond to technical coaching and you try to make them more technical, sometimes it doesn't work. Matt Frazier is a good example of technical weightlifting being a huge asset to the sport. I think there's too many people that are always like, well, man, I got a competition next week. And if I change how I do burpees, then they'll slow down by then. It takes maybe a year for those technical improvements to show themselves in PR but yeah