How do you remember every person’s name in a class and why is it important? How do you know when to wait for everyone to finish a warm-up component versus when it’s time to move on? And how does a coach effectively guide athletes to understand the intended stimulus of a workout and select the appropriate scaling options?
Join Annie Sakamoto (CF-L4) and Nicole Christensen (CF-L4) as they dissect class footage from Annie’s 9 a.m. class at CrossFit Santa Cruz Central. Annie, a 17-year veteran coach and affiliate owner, provides insight into her coaching process and breaks down the elements that make her class a must-take for athletes at her gym.
From whiteboard organization to more nuanced considerations for running a group class, Annie is a master of putting each of the six criteria for effective coaching to work.
Multiple Ways to Describe a Workout to Dial in Scaling Needs
When to Move On
Whiteboard Penmanship
Comments on Coach’s Cut with Annie Sakamoto
This is fantastic and a great tool to utilize for development of coaches. Who better to learn from than an OG L4 that has decades of experience. Even more beneficial would be to:
- share the lesson plan
- post the entire video, so we can analyze the entire class and learn from it all, as opposed to edited segments. This will help us in understanding where Annie stayed to her lesson plan and were she made adjustments and why.
For example, I would like to see and understand:
why were people walking around and dropping weights etc during her brief?
did she do her brief to start or somewhere in the middle of class? why?
I have a thousand questions and being able to see the class in its entirety would better allow understanding and development for the rest of us.
More of this please!
Coach’s Cut with Annie Sakamoto
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