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How to Become a Certified Running Coach

How to Become a Certified Running Coach

Avatar Posted by Blueberry on October 17, 2019 Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago, I talked about how not every runner should be a coach, even with the easily-available and quick online certification options. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t or shouldn’t become a coach.

If you’ve done a self-evaluation and decided that you have the knowledge, experience, and gumption, there are many paths to becoming a running coach. Personal training certifications are all similarly formatted or in an online format and similarly priced. University degrees obviously take a little foresight, but many of those degrees aren’t focused singularly on coaching. Finally, some great coaches don’t have a certification at all, and that’s an option worth considering, too. Let’s break down the options.

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Categories: Coaches & Team Running
Tags: coaching, coaching certification, online coaching, rrca, USATF
Not Every Runner Makes a Good Coach

Not Every Runner Makes a Good Coach

Avatar Posted by Blueberry on October 3, 2019 Leave a comment

About five years ago, I was scrolling through Instagram when I saw that a friend had become a Running Coach™. I absolutely loathed my job at the time, and after applying and subsequently getting rejected for dozens of new jobs, I decided that I was up for a similar career change. I knew right then that I was going to become a full-time blogger AND coach. If this friend can be a coach, I can, too! I looked up the certification she had and found that it only took one weekend of classes and a couple hundred dollars. I absolutely didn’t have the money, but it was an investment in my future, amirite?

Every day I scroll through the ‘gram and find hundreds of bios that state, “I’m a runner AND a Certified Running Coach!” It appears that literally everybody is a coach of some sort these days. I’m going to tell you the hard truth… Not every runner makes a good coach. Whether they are fast, slow, professional, or not, their running performance does not correlate with their coaching performance. Read more >>

Categories: Coaches & Team Running
Tags: coaches, coaching, coaching certification, online coaching, Running coaches
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