Learning through teaching
These notes combine advice from 8 reviewed passages across 7 workouts.
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Teaching a skill is a practical route to mastery. The guiding rule is to research when you want to learn and to teach when you want to master, and to keep applying that rule as you progress. Everyone eventually has something to teach someone. [1] [3] [4] [8]
Teaching keeps the steps and details of a skill in your mind. The wider work of coaching also includes continuing your own training, writing programs for others, and learning from the people you train. [1] [4] [5] [6] [7]
The research and teaching rule
Section titled “The research and teaching rule”Research when you want to learn a skill, and teach when you want to master it. Teaching deepens mastery of a skill. Keep applying this rule as you progress. [1] [3] [4] [8]
Everyone eventually has something to teach someone. When that time comes, keep the teaching steps in mind and present the skill in the same order you followed when learning it. [1]
Teaching and attention to detail
Section titled “Teaching and attention to detail”Teaching makes you notice technical details more clearly, and those details stay in your memory. [4] [5]
Keep your own training going
Section titled “Keep your own training going”Many coaches stop practicing once they begin coaching and let themselves go. Keep training and developing yourself after you start coaching. [5]
Peer teaching in street sports
Section titled “Peer teaching in street sports”People teach one another in street workout, power mover, and other street-culture sports. This each one teach one practice is not present in some established sports. [2]
Programming for others
Section titled “Programming for others”Start writing your own training programs gradually, then write programs for other people as well. This develops you. [6]
Learning from your students
Section titled “Learning from your students”While training someone, you can also learn from them. Coaching can be reciprocal. [7]
Sources
Section titled “Sources”1. 2024-01-18, 1312.7-1328.4s
Workout: workout:2024-01-18
Passage: passage:2024-01-18:000426-000429
2. 2024-02-28, 158.9-178.7s
Workout: workout:2024-02-28
Passage: passage:2024-02-28:000049-000054
3. 2024-03-09, 4234.1-4245.8s
Workout: workout:2024-03-09
Passage: passage:2024-03-09:001394-001395
4. 2024-05-02, 4037.9-4052.7s
Workout: workout:2024-05-02
Passage: passage:2024-05-02:001189-001195
5. 2024-05-02, 4052.8-4067.8s
Workout: workout:2024-05-02
Passage: passage:2024-05-02:001196-001205
6. 2024-09-24, 958.7-966.7s
Workout: workout:2024-09-24
Passage: passage:2024-09-24:000296-000301
7. 2024-12-03, 217.4-225.5s
Workout: workout:2024-12-03
Passage: passage:2024-12-03:000052-000055
8. 2025-12-02, 3162.2-3165.4s
Workout: workout:2025-12-02
Passage: passage:2025-12-02:000881-000882