6 Reasons To Hire An Online Strength Coach

If you want to become stronger the most efficient way possible, barbell training is your best bet. But do you know how to execute the lifts and pick a program that suits your abilities ?

Trial and error can work, but you’ll waist a lot of time and might get injured in the process.

That’s where a professional barbell coach can come in handy. In person coaching is great if you can afford it on a regular basis, but an online strength coach might be the better option for most people.

1.Good Price

Online Coaching is like personal training, but less expensive and more flexible.

In person coaching is a luxury product with 70-100€/session that many lifters can’t buy on a regular basis. Compare that to 200 €/month for online coaching and you realize it’s quite affordable.

2. High Flexibility

You’re travelling for work or you’re on a two week vacation ? All good excuses to skip training with a personal trainer, but not with online coaching. As long as there is a gym, fitness park or tree branch, you will get your lifting in, no excuses are accepted.

3. Home Gym Friendly

For people who own a home gym, an online coach is the perfect fit. He can help you buy good equipment, but you can train on your own schedule and in the privacy of your own home.

Good luck getting a personal trainer to come to your garage at 07.00 in the morning, on the other hand with an online coach it does not matter at what time you train.

4. Better Technique

Barbell lifts are perfect for home training, but without an experienced coach watching your sets, form might suffer as you add weight or be terrible from the start because you tried to teach yourself how to squat from videos.

Most people don’t have the objectivity or experience to realize their technique is not what it should be for safe and effective lifting.

With an online coach you get form feedback for every lift and every session, so bad execution creeping in won’t happen to you.

5. Individualized Programming

You can just do some random program you find online and hope that it is the right fit for you, even a bad program is better than none.

But in my experience this leads to program hopping, or picking programs that are not suited for your recovery abilities, equipment or technique knowledge.

If you want to be on the safe side, you get programming tailored to your schedule, equipment and preferences. No hopping from plan to plan trying to figure out what works for you, just one plan where every piece of the puzzle has a reason to be where it is, because it was tailored to you by a barbell coach with experience.

6. Accountability

Accountability is hugely important, no matter how much discipline you have, nothing will motivate like a hired professional. He’ll get you under the bar, even when you don’t feel like it.

Even in a home gym setting excuses are plentiful. “I can always train later” being the most popular one. A coach will check in with you and give you some healthy peer pressure to get shit done, no matter your mood.

Lifting can be a rough journey and a coach is for those who don’t like to travel alone. With an online coach you have someone to share you PRs and struggles with, who is happy when you get your first chin up, but who also knows how to train around injuries or sleep deprivation, when life gets rough.

Summary

A good online strength coach will make sure your technique is on point and help you set up a home gym.

Well crafted programming will keep you motivated to train and make sure progress is made.

You’ll have someone to hold you accountable and not miss training sessions, which would be the death of any program.

All of that comes at a price, that trumps any personal training, while having a more flexible structure.

If this article convinced you to try online coaching, fill out the contact form here to hire me as your coach.

Coach Georg