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Aidan Donnelly Coaching

🏋🏻‍♂️Coach & Co-owner of G2G Coaching
I focus on sustainable approaches to training, health, performance and coaching, and help others to do the same.

28/05/2026

Keep the goal the goal!

Having a priority, a focus and maintaining that over enough time to see it pay off or know how best to adjust can be a challenge.

Check out the slides for more information.

If you struggle with this DM me the word ‘goal’ for a framework to help solve this.

24/04/2026

Change is difficult. Easier to keep doing the same thing hoping for a different outcome, especially when you don’t want to have to change what you are doing.

Load management, proper recovery and identifying what triggers your back pain is huge for being able to make sustainable progress.

Do you have ongoing back pain?

22/04/2026

Lots of things start off as great ideas and theories and later on are shown to be not as expected. The theory was great, but the outcome wasn’t - it just didn’t happen or caused a different result than anticipated.

A couple of big ones I see and I jumped on the bandwagon with at one stage or another is going too ‘sports specific’, activation exercises and foam rolling.

A lot of the times these things are reported to be superior, less uncomfortable or more time efficient than the alternative which requires more time, effort and change which is rarely an appealing combination.

Without testing and tracking it’s very hard to know if something is doing what you want and you end up wasting far more time and effort in the long run.

Finding a baseline/ entry point and a way to track progress before implementing something is a huge time and frustration saver. Bit more effort up front to find a solution quicker and decide if something is really worth your time or not.

Give this post a like if it resonates with you.

21/04/2026

TRUST AND LISTENING TO THE CLIENT/ ATHLETE

Anyone can create a programme, put together a list of exercises and progressions. However, most people have some form of barrier to progress outside of a lack of knowledge around what exactly to do.

To navigate that you need trust and for the person to feel like you understand/ care - which can’t be faked or performative.

Then you can make suggestions, educate and have better conversations, even difficult ones - and they are better received

You can shame/ guilt trip a person into action with long term consequences or them shutting down, or you can take the time to understand their fears, concerns, blindspots and work with them - promoting an increase in confidence and self-belief through the process.

I think most people are doing their best, and trying to problem solve, but unaware how they may be getting in their own way: blindspots (everyone has them).

Trying to see your blindspots is like trying to look at the back of your head. It can be uncomfortable when you become aware of them and hence the need for trust, understanding the need to feeling like someone has your back.

Would you like to discover more about his approach?

17/04/2026

Can you relate to the owl in picture 1? I can.

Injuries and pain that won’t go away, training taking a hit, no clear plan or progression, feeling frustrated and desperate to get back training but all you seem to get are low level rehab exercises and things ‘not to do’.

Great.

If you’d like to know what the Owl did to go from picture 1 to 3 ask A.I. But if you’d like to know how to get back training and making progress the DM me ‘owl’.

I have simple frameworks you can use to get the ball rolling.

15/04/2026

There’s the injury and all the things you can’t do or lose with it.

Then there’s all the things you CAN do, but unable to focus on.

You can’t see the forrest for the trees yet.

When encouraged to problem solve, most people come up with good solutions and alternatives. They just haven’t asked the question:

“What else can I STILL do?”

Knee? - Train upper body and the unaffected leg
Back? - Upper body, seated machines
Can’t run? - off feet conditioning
Can’t make contact? - Skills training
Social? - Help out at training, go to the social events
Terrible personality? - Frontal lobotomy (joke)

There’s things you can still do.

08/04/2026

Feeling under confident and finding it difficult to trust your ability or decisions comes up regularly in coaching scenarios.

Frequently after an injury, or set back. It’s also task specific. What I mean is you can be confident in one after, and completely under confident in another.

A way to improve this is to gradually demonstrate to yourself that you CAN do or change something.

Like with loading or acquiring a skill, it’s gradual. Big steps or jumps usually aren’t the answer. It increases likelihood of failure, or negative consequences and erodes confidence.

Though the vast majority of people try to do too much at once, and set the bar too high and the inevitable happens.

If you are trying to improve confidence in an area I recommend trying this for 6-8 weeks. You’ll see a difference.

If you want a copy of the framework then DM me ‘confidence’. If you need help implementing it then book a consultation using the link in my bio. It’s free and doesn’t come with a hard sell.

05/04/2026

Julieth discussing the gradual decline in her ability to train and play tennis from long standing shoulder pain, knee pain and a history or back pain.

Nothing fancy in the approach we took. Just found out what she COULD do, addressed fears and concerns, built trust and gradually worked through a programme - loading and progressing where appropriate.

Do you have any long standing injuries and pains getting int the way of doing what you want?

01/04/2026

How do you set yourself up for success?

Set and manage expectations from the start as best as possible.

Otherwise it’s likely to result in confusion, fear, frustration and constantly changing things and repeating processes that aren’t working.

The crappy thing about most processes is they don’t tend to go smoothly, need regular objective reflection, tweaks and revision, involve challenge and discomfort and take longer than expected.

Not always, not every time…but the vast majority of the time.

But knowing what to expect makes it so much easier!

25/03/2026

The difficulty with basing all the decisions on either a feeling/ felt sense or logic and rationale.

You usually need a mixture of them all and different ways to approach each.

Then to decide what direction you want to go.

No amount of logic and rationale will change a fear response. Though a fear response would always give reliable information around it it’s safe to progress or not.

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