Becoming Your Version of an Athlete

CREATING AN INDIVIDUAL APPROACH TO TRAINING

We are delighted to announce that Jamie Geraghty, founder of Bar Monkey Calisthenics, has launched his first book!

This has been release in ebook format and will soon be available also in paperback.

For anyone with an interest in Youth Athlete Development, understanding how to develop someone by taking an individual approach, this book will help you to look at training in a completely different context.

Whether you are an athlete, you can better understand yourself and what type of training you need in order to progress. You will gain a better insight into your own physical characteristics, your emotional response to training, to competition and your cognitive reactions.

As a coach, you will learn how to work with each individual, and to treat them as just that, a unique person in front of you with their own specific physical characteristics, emotions and goals.

This book, if broken down in it’s simplest form, wants to look at the Coach | Athlete relationship and to create a better understanding around how we can develop that relationship.

A coach must understand the athlete in front of them physically, emotionally and cognitively in order to help them flourish and reach their own potential.

Overall, a coach will learn how to create a structure that suits the individual, not fitting an individual into their structure.

Sport is one of life’s greatest forms of expression—the opportunity to showcase your creativity, your artistry, the individual within.

As coaches, why do we so often place athletes all in the same box? Or in a fitness setting, why is every person given the same ‘beginner’ programme over and over?

Much like placing a bird in a cage, if we never truly understand the individual, they will never know their wings are supposed to be used to fly. - Jamie Geraghty

Becoming Your Version of an Athlete : Creating an Individual Approach to Training is available on Amazon now.