Using Technology to Enhance Your Coaching

If you don’t use technology in your coaching, what’s stopping you? Perhaps you’re ‘old school’ and sceptical of anything more complicated than a stopwatch? Or maybe you’re already so overworked that there aren’t enough hours in the week to spend mucking about with apps? Whatever your reason, finding the time or the opportunity to upskill in this area may prove key to a better coaching experience.

If (as is likely) they were born after 1980, your athletes are ‘digital natives’. That is, they have been immersed in technology all their adult lives and don’t remember a time when they couldn’t Google an answer to any question within 30 seconds.

This generation don’t dabble in technology. It’s their life. They’re always connected; communicating, sharing and demanding instant information and feedback. They find it annoying when it isn’t there.