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For my 20% project I want to learn how to become a better CrossFit coach. I took my level 1 cert in November year and I have slowly been trying to make the transition from noob coach to actually professionally paid coach, and it hasn't gone over so well. What I want to spend more time on is creating my own way of understanding and verbalizing information specifically about Olympic weight lifting. I need to wrap my brain around it better, and come up with some acronyms or main points that are original to use when I coach. I need to find some way to launch my mediocre-average coaching skills to being a great coaching skills. I think that overcoming the road block lies in creating my own understanding in some way, and then receiving validation for it, and then verbalizing it someway that I feel comfortable.
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Martin Zschoche
2/16/2015 02:18:18 am
Rebecca, I think you are at the start of a rewarding project, realizing that somehow, you have to take the coaching instruction and make it your own. Recently I have come across what is known as the Feynman technique for learning. It starts with you writing down everything you already know about a subject and continuing to research and write your understanding as if you were teaching a six year old child. Break everything down into its simplest form as if you had to teach it to an elementary school child. I think it does something different in your brain so you can retain it better and make it your own learning.
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