Inchworm soccer, sit-up practice, obstacle course, and cartwheels!

My drawing skills never progressed much beyond the stick-figure stage, and I’m embarrassed to admit that even my stick figures sometimes look like mutant lollipops.  Drawing the whiteboards for the CrossFit Kids progam is an agonizing ordeal in concentration with countless erasures and touchups.  Any normal person could have done the whiteboard above in about 3 minutes but it took me about 45.

As crude as these are, I’ve been really enjoying drawing kids whiteboards.  I’ve discovered that trying to communicate in pictures forces me to break down a technique into its most elemental form.  Being able to “draw” a good position is a lot different than just being able to “feel it”.  Part of being an effective coach is being able to communicate technical subject matter to all different types of learners, including young people.  As a coach, you’re only finished growing when you lose interest in learning.