Anyone can write out a training session. Pick some exercises or drills, write them down, email them to the athlete, post them on a bulletin board write them on a white board and turn them loose to train. WRONG! No, now the work begins. Now you coach. Now you the coach through your coaching to make the words and numbers come alive. You turn those exercises and drills on paper into action. Coaching means that you actually coach not just write workouts, you teach, you motivate, you correct, you discipline. You must be totally involved if you want the athlete committed.
Anyone can hold a clipboard, blow a whistle or call out times, but are you coaching? Coaching is hands on, total involvement focused on the athlete. It's not looking at numbers on an iPad or some monitoring device, it is watching the athlete, correcting, directing and encouraging so the work is turned into results.