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Get Ahead in 2026: Using CoachNow Templates to Save Time and Scale
Prepare for 2026 by using CoachNow Templates to streamline content delivery, save time, and scale your coaching business effortlessly.
12-04-2025
Building Mental Resilience in Athletes for Peak Performance
Discover how building mental resilience can unlock peak performance in athletes. Learn practical techniques and the vital role that coaches play.
11-26-2025
Holiday Remote Coaching for Real Progress
Discover how remote coaching can keep athletes motivated and progressing through the holidays and beyond with the right technology and strategies.
11-20-2025
Effective Injury Recovery Training for Athletes
Discover strategies for injury recovery in athletes, focusing on personalized rehab, mental health, technology, and more to ensure a powerful comeback.
11-13-2025
Modern Digital Coaching Tips for a Competitive Edge
Discover tech-driven coaching tips to enhance athlete performance, streamline communication, and sustain engagement.
11-06-2025
How Top Coaches Like Joey Sankey Onboard Their Athletes
Learn how Coach Joey Sankey's personalized onboarding process enhances athlete engagement. Discover actionable insights for your own practice as well.
10-30-2025
Key Tips for Managing Athletes
Discover essential tips for effective athlete management using CoachNow’s video analysis and communication tools to enhance coaching success.
10-23-2025
Maximizing Your Library Features for Better Organization
Learn how to maximize your CoachNow Library features for better organization and efficiency, enhancing your coaching management and productivity.
10-16-2025
CoachNow's Most Commonly Asked FAQ's
Discover how to seamlessly integrate CoachNow into your routine with answers to common questions and tips for maximizing the app's features.
10-02-2025
What’s New in CoachNow: Payment Collection Upgrades, Gallery Posts, + More
Discover CoachNow's latest updates, including payment collection upgrades, gallery posts, and new features to streamline your coaching business.
09-11-2025
5 Key Habits for your Mental Training Toolkit
Discover five essential habits to enhance mental training for athletes and coaches, boosting performance and well-being both on and off the field.
08-21-2025
Mid-Year Check-In: How to Reevaluate Your Goals and Stay on Track
Take a mid-year pause to reassess and refine your goals with CoachNow's latest features, ensuring you stay on track for a strong finish to the year.
08-07-2025
2025 - Key Features We've Released So Far
Discover CoachNow's latest 2025 updates, including CoachNow Academy, Multicam, and enhanced billing features.
07-31-2025
The One Question That Changes Everything for Your Athletes
Discover how a simple end-of-session question can transform athlete learning, boost retention, and save coaching time.
07-24-2025
Unlocking the Full Potential of Video Analysis for Your Coaching
Video analysis is powerful, but only one piece of athlete development. Learn key mistakes to avoid and how to maximize results by steering clear of them.
07-03-2025
How to Keep Your Athletes Accountable
Learn how to foster athlete accountability through clear expectations, consistent feedback, and effective use of coaching tools.
06-05-2025
Our Most Common Support FAQs
Get answers to common CoachNow support questions and learn how to make the most out of your experience as a coach, athlete, or parent.
05-29-2025
All Your Athlete Data, All in One Place
Level up your coaching with the Athlete CSV from CoachNow. This powerful tool helps you stay organized and enhance your marketing efforts.
04-24-2025
CoachNow’s 3 Favorite AI Tools
Discover CoachNow's favorite AI tools like Descript, AI-Skeleton Tracking, and ChatGPT to enhance coaching efficiency and communication.
03-06-2025
Every Coach’s #1 Worst Enemy (and how to overcome it)
Learn how to combat the 'Forgetting Curve' and enhance your athletes' retention with asynchronous communication and micro-touch points.
02-20-2025
Understanding the Importance of the Feedback Loop
CoachNow helps you speed up athlete feedback. Maximize the platform by clearly guiding how your athletes should engage with you.
02-06-2025
Why Relationships Are Integral To Your Coaching Business
Success doesn’t just depend on the progress or performance of our athletes. The relationships we cultivate are just as important, if not more important.
01-21-2025
Set Yourself Apart From Your Competition With These 3 Steps
I know how challenging it can be to set yourself apart from competition. I want to share my advice on how to make your coaching offer stand out.
01-08-2025
How to Get Started Digitizing Your Coaching Expertise
You’ve heard me say it a million times: move away from selling time for money. I want to expand on this idea & give you tangible examples to get started.
11-21-2024
Remote Coaching Best Practices: 3 Tips to Maximize Athlete Engagement
There are 3 critical aspects of successful remote coaching: providing video feedback, the importance of context, and maintaining momentum.
10-30-2024
How to Train Your Athletes to Practice like a pro… Even if They’re an Amateur (INTENTION & RETENTION)
In my 10+ years of coaching both amateurs and pros, I’ve noticed some key distinctions between how they approach practice and training..
10-24-2024
3 Key Ingredients to Level Up Your Live Coaching Sessions
A ConnectedCoaching session should include 2 recap videos, before and after technical video or image comparison, and a concise written practice plan.
08-01-2024
How to Introduce Long-Term Development Programs into Your Coaching Offer
CoachNow helps athletes stay motivated with features that act like a personal journal, tracking progress and supporting growth every step of the way.
07-03-2024
IG June Round Up - CoachNow Featured Coaches
This week, we're highlighting 3 stellar examples of CoachNow members showing how they use the platform in real-world settings.
06-26-2024
What’s Passive Transparency? Keeping Parents in the Loop
Keep parents informed without overload. Discover simple ways for youth coaches to share updates efficiently and stay focused on athlete development.
06-19-2024
Organize Your Content in CoachNow - 6 Key Features
Discover essential features & best practices for organizing your content in CoachNow, ensuring a streamlined & efficient experience for you & your athlete.
06-06-2024
The Surprising Power of Collaboration
While I'm skilled in many areas, I don’t have the depth of expertise that these trainers have. By bringing together specialists, you build a holistic team.
05-30-2024
The 3 P’s - A Framework for Coaching Success
The coaching industry is fundamentally broken, but with "The 3 P's", you can build your business and empower your athletes to thrive.
05-16-2024
Coaching Habits to Implement for 2024
Build the right habits to thrive as a coach and business owner. Follow these 3 strategies to elevate your business in 2024 and beyond.
04-18-2024
Sessions, Not 'Lessons': Know the Difference
Words shape mindset. Replace outdated terms in your coaching to create a true win-win-win for your athletes, your business, and yourself.
04-04-2024
Asynchronous Coaching: Build Better Athletes Faster
Discover how asynchronous communication can revolutionize your coaching strategy, save you time, & accelerate athlete progress.
03-21-2024
In-Person Coaching Sessions: Top 3 Best Practices
Learn how to optimize in-person sessions to boost athlete performance, speed improvement, and maximize results while reducing your workload.
02-08-2024
Is Your Coaching Job Burning You Out? Here's Why
Every day I speak with coaches who are on the verge of burning out. Since creating CoachNow I’ve made it my mission to stop it from happening to you.
02-05-2024
Coaching 101 - Bridging the Gap Between "Feel" vs. "Real"
Empower athletes to analyze their performance objectively and improve with every practice, even when a coach isn’t there.
12-10-2023
CoachNow Coach Analysis Examples
CoachNow coaches use video analysis and seamless communication to connect with athletes and help them reach their peak performance.
11-16-2023
How Do You Organize Content in CoachNow? AMA Session May 12th, 2023
This week's AMA covers a range of topics, from organizing content in CoachNow, to unique use cases from celebrity coaches.
11-05-2023
What’s a Sport-Skills Coach?
The term coach can mean a lot of things. There are different types of coaches out there, each with their own unique roles, goals, and areas of expertise.
10-26-2023
Sports-Skills Coaching: Dos and Don'ts
To help you navigate the challenges and opportunities in the sports-skills coaching industry, I’vs compiled a list of “dos” and “don'ts”. Let's investigate
10-19-2023
Rapid Fire Overview: Spaces, Groups, Best Practices
This quick video shows how to add athletes, create Spaces and Groups, and use the web and mobile apps to streamline and grow your coaching workflow.
09-20-2023
Top 5 Tips to Unlock the Power of Spaces for Your Coaching Business
Unlike communication channels like text, email, & video analysis apps, Spaces are perfect for 1-on-1 development in a very specific area of development.
07-20-2023
Coaching 101: Mastering the Art of Goal-Oriented Practice
Far too often, coaching and practice sessions become reactive. But this approach lacks a key component to any successful coaching session: Goal-Orientation.
07-12-2023
CoachNow Best Practices: Unlocking the Power of the Cloud Library
Knowing how to leverage your Cloud library’s tools will streamline the organization & ease of communication around your posts, documents, videos, & photos.
06-07-2023
Getting Started with Long-Term Development Programs - 3 Key Components
I’ve had lots of coaches ask me how they should approach long term development. How do you actually begin the journey away from the “Lessons” model?
10-20-2022
How to Make $100,000+/ Year Coaching Less Than 30 Hours a Week (Yes, Really)
The $100k Coaching Offer is an outline of the exact offer that’ll get you to $100k per year as a coach. It’s really simple when you break it down.
10-13-2022
Do You Know The Best Kept Secret of Video Analysis?
Video analysis alone isn’t enough. CoachNow pairs insights with guided coaching to turn observations into real, measurable performance improvement.
06-23-2022
The WHY Behind These Foundational Video Analysis Features
CoachNow leads in video analysis, offering Slow Motion, Voice Over, Comparison Shots, and Dynamic Annotation to boost your coaching workflow.
06-16-2022
Focus On What Athletes WANT, Not WHAT YOU THINK THEY NEED
Discover a simple yet powerful messaging tweak: focus on what your ideal customers want, not just what you think they need.
06-10-2022
Don't Worry! Athletes Won't Fire You if They Get Too Good Too Fast
You'll learn the difference between calibrative and directive feedback and how to leverage calibrative feedback to make your athletes more autonomous.
05-19-2022
3 Reasons Why You’ll Quit Your Coaching Job DON’T MAKE THESE MISTAKES
Back when I was coaching, I burned out and ultimately quit doing what I once loved. I don’t want to see you do the same.
04-21-2022
Onboarding Your Athletes to CoachNow: Top 3 Best Practices
Transitioning your clients to new software can be hard. This advice will make the transition smooth & help you realize the potential of the platform.
03-16-2022
Video Analysis: What Most Coaches Get Wrong (4 Major Misconceptions)
Discover the 4 biggest misconceptions coaches have about video analysis and learn how to use it effectively to improve performance, CoachNow.
02-06-2022
Try Making Video Recaps in CoachNow!
This week, I want to dive deeper into a specific form of video recap that's worked wonders for me. I wish I'd known this simple coaching hack sooner!
01-28-2022
The Magic of Video Recaps | Change Your Coaching Business in 2 Minutes
Discover the key element that can instantly elevate coaching sessions and accelerate business growth—an often overlooked tool with powerful impact.
01-12-2022
Common Video Analysis Mistakes
I see coaches going down the video analysis rabbit hole, losing sight of its potential & creating unnecessary work for themselves that goes unappreciated.
12-17-2021
Coaching with Micro-Touch Points
Top CoachNow coaches deliver value in small, timely doses. As ConnectedCoaches, we call this a powerful 'Micro Touch Point'.
11-19-2021
Is Video Analysis Helpful?
I want to help you understand best practices for video analysis. The advice here helps you save time & use technology to help athletes reach their goals.
10-12-2021