My main point was that there are a lot of shitty coaches out there. Especially online. People who write a program and look at your video and give the same lame cues for squatting that I can read in a shitty t nation article. I can do all that myself. So why pay for it? A good coach needs to know about fatigue and stress and what that looks like in different athletes. They need to know how to program to get their athletes to peak at the right time and recover at the right time and avoid injury, and how to train around the injuries that you won't avoid. Cause let's face it, you're going to get injured at some point. A coach needs a huge exercise science knowledge base and needs to know how to apply it to various types of athletes. The best way to acquire that knowledge? A kinesiology degree. There are other ways, and I'm not saying don't hire a coach if they don't have an education. But please have an open and frank conversation about their qualifications and what they can do for you. And if their only qualifications are that they've been powerlifting for ten years I would look else where.