Fast Twitch Athletics – One Month In
/Hi folks,
As we are approaching the end of the first month of coaching I thought I would fill you all in with a summary of how things have gone so far, along with some offers and opportunities.
Youngstars Athletics
The Youngstars athletics has gotten off to a solid start with two squads currently running at the Mary Peters Track on a Wednesday and a Thursday. There has been interest in other evenings and the most popular waiting list right now is Friday evenings at the Belfast Boys Model from 6pm – 7pm which has 5/10 children interested. Once we hit 10 people interested and registered that session will get up and running.
Since the Youngstars Athetics is a new program, the past month has been used as a feeler to see what people like, dislike and are interested in. Since the start of this program, there have been offers such as ‘second child or second session gets 40% off’ and more recently I have introduced the option to have a free taster session before signing up to see if the athletics training suits your needs. The next offer I think I will introduce will be any new sign ups on referral will get their first month at half price and the person that made the referral will get their next month at half price also. I believe word of mouth is the best source of advertising at the minute and I would not be where I am currently without the help of the awesome coaches at City of Lisburn, Orangegrove and St Annes athletics club who have promoted my coaching service to the athletes on their waiting lists, so thank you all so very much!
Storm lorenzo giving the javelins an extra boost during the first week of youngstars!
Development and Senior Coaching
On the developmental and senior side of athletics, this month has had me quite busy working with jumpers and sprinters who are on current Athletics NI squads (Youth Academy and Event Group Sprints and Jumps) along with Ulster University students who are preparing for varsity championships in the upcoming months. I have also created a squad of athletes aged 16 – 20 at the St Colmans track in Newry on a Friday evening as well as coaching senior athletes during the afternoons between my own training and the kids/ development coaching in the evenings (as I said, busy busy!).
To be honest, the weeks leading into the start of October and the start of self-employment had me quite anxious as I was leaving a great job with great people to work independently and start my own business. However, this has been one of the most enjoyable months of my life and I’m super excited for what the future holds.
Other Stuff
The last thing I will say is that a small ‘passion project’ of mine has been to create some merchandise/ branding to help get Fast Twitch Athletics’ name out there so I have designed some limited edition t-shirts, baseball hats and iPhone covers. They are now available on my website under the ‘products’ tab and keep an eye out on my Instagram as I’ll be doing some free giveaways over the upcoming weeks. My instagram handle is @fasttwitch_athletics for the development and senior coaching and @youngstarsathletics for the kids coaching. It would also be awesome if you subscribed to my YouTube channel ‘Fast Twitch Athletics’ as that’s where I am posting coaching tips and advice alongside performance videos of my athletes and myself.
That’s all for now and I will be in touch next month with more good news and offers!
Goodbye!