Coach Guy's Blog

Team USA in Amsterdam, November 2025 As a coach, one of the most important lessons you can learn, and then hopefully teach your players/clients, is that attitude is 80% of the battle.  It sounds almost obvious, I guess, yet people still tend to underestimate it.  I see it all the time, from my least motivated private clients to my most competitive players. The way they approach the work that needs to be done in order to get them from point A to point B, and the story they tel

I had a show with my cover band recently, at a local establishment. It was a lot of fun. We made dozens of people dance, sing along and generally have a good time. After the show, my bandmates and I were approached by two separate individuals. One was an older gentleman, who was probably​ (just being honest here) moderately intoxicated, and he handed us a $100 bill while thanking us for the show. Needless to say, we really appreciated it. After all, it was our first big tip!

One of the things I've realized recently is that I really, and I mean really, dislike the word "Potential", and its close affiliates. ...

I talk to my clients a lot about consistency. In fact, this is probably one of the words I use most whenever I discuss long term change...

A client of mine has recently reached a pretty big squatting milestone - 200 lbs. Most of my clients don't lift that kind of weight, not...

When I was younger, I was a sports writer for a while. I guess it was never a real career path for me, but through a period in my life I...

Memories from 2011. Not only a different sport, it almost feels like a different lifetime My first year of coaching adult sports was with...

My daughter recently celebrated her first birthday. Well, I guess her mother and I were the ones celebrating, she obviously didn't know...

Ever since I was little, I had a way with words. It started with reading, of course.  As a kid, I used to read a lot of books and...