205 - Designing Warm Ups: Coach-Led Vs On-Your-Own

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When you are coaching a warm up in the group class setting, do you prefer to lead the class exercise-by-exercise, or do you prefer to explain the entire warm up and then have athletes go through it on their own?

It's common for coaches to have a preferred style, or believe that one format is better than the other.

But we use both formats are our gym, and here's why:

Coach-Led formats are great for keeping the group together, working through progressions or higher-level skills, and minimizing the pre-class preamble that can feel slow or tedious.

On-your-own formats are great for building relationships, maximizing your 1-on-1 technical coaching, and when you want to opt for simple formats that don't require a lot of time or explanation.

We've found that by balancing both, we get a nice mix of coaching, relationship-building, and skill practice over days, weeks, and months, that we couldn't get if we just stuck to one format.

In today's podcast, we break down the pros and cons of these 2 warm up styles in more detail, so you can maximize the beginning of your class each day.