What’s Inside The Craft of Coaching
The Craft of Coaching is Joe Friel’s ultimate guide to becoming a better, more successful, and happier coach.
1 // Building a Foundation for Success in Coaching
Coach Joe Friel details what it takes to be a good, happy, and successful coach, then shares how coaches can build the eight most important skills an effective coach must have.
2 // The How and Why of Coaching
Coaches often focus on methodology over philosophy. Your own path to coaching shapes both, and Joe Friel shows why it matters.
3 // Mapping a Season of Training
Anyone can make a training plan. But a good coach knows how to plan a season that unlocks an athlete’s true potential. Joe Friel is joined by a full line-up of master coaches in this module that will expand your thinking.
4 // The Business of Coaching
Find out how successful coaches navigated the challenges of getting started, becoming profitable, marketing for growth, and building a team into long-lasting businesses.
The Craft of Coaching Playbooks
These Playbooks are free downloads that augment the useful content in The Craft of Coaching with Joe Friel through deeper dives into specific aspects of coaching.
5 // Assembling a Winning Roster: Managing Athletes & Service Providers
Everyone wins when an athlete feels supported. In Module 5 from The Craft of Coaching, Joe Friel and his hand-picked experts share how to best manage athletes and add service providers to extend your coaching capabilities.
6 // Managing Athlete Performance
As a coach, helping your athletes achieve their performance potential is an important task, but it’s rarely an easy one. In Module 6 of The Craft of Coaching, Joe Friel, together with several top coaches, share their experience on every aspect of this journey to peak performance.
7 // The Versatile Coach: How to Adapt Training to the Individual Athlete
Every athlete is a study of one, presenting different limitations and strengths. The best coaches are able to identify these differences and adapt their style and strategy to meet the unique needs of every athlete.
8 // The Psychology of Performance, Motivation, and Athlete Development
Explore the psychological and social side of performance with the help of experts who specialize in sport psychology, mental performance, and athlete development.
9 // Coaching Endurance Athletes
Endurance coaching can be as rewarding as it is challenging, yet knowing how best to tackle those testing times can help make the success stories all the sweeter. In this latest module, we lift the lid on some of the minutiae of endurance coaching.
10 // Coaching Junior Athletes
Young athletes need coaches to know more than just skill and execution of sport. Top coaches share what they’ve learned about developing juniors.
11 // Coaching Masters Athletes
Training mistakes are costly for masters athletes. Coaches who are savvy to aging position their clients for a lifetime of performance.
12 // Coaching Female Athletes
Learn how to help female athletes reach their potential with the latest knowledge from a stellar cast of experts and coaches.
13 // Coaching Elite Athletes
As pro athletes redefine the limits of performance, coaches are continually refining their strategy and leading a collaborative effort.
14 // The Future of Endurance Coaching
A panel of endurance sports coaches presents opportunities and threats for the future of coaching.