This is a really fast 290 for a small sophomore girl 😳
This one has put in a lot of great work this semester.
Sub 12 second 100m is the goal this spring.
Junior high girls from this morning.
Over 60% of our 8th graders box squat 135+ to a 16 inch box for 3.
Proud of this group’s consistency and hard work!!
Keep this in mind when starting your bench press progression off with push-ups.
63 lbs of bodyweight is a 43 pound push-up.
A 15 lb. training bar makes a whole lot more sense.
REALLY, REALLY makes sense for your bigger kids.
Proximity expands possibility. When you get in the right rooms, belief stops being a theory and starts becoming reality. Sometimes all it takes is getting in the right room to realize you belong there too.
Are we helping kids… or teaching them to run from hard things?
I see this all the time in schools.
A student has a problem with a teacher, coach, classmate, or situation, and too often the first response is to remove the problem.
Switch the class.
Quit the team.
Avoid the conversation.
Have the parent step in and fix it.
I understand the instinct. We don’t want to see our kids struggle.
But Dr. Becky Kennedy said something powerful:
“The more you optimize for happiness in childhood, the more you actually wire for anxiety in adulthood.”
Kids need to learn that disappointment is survivable.
Conflict is survivable.
Failure is survivable.
Being uncomfortable is survivable.
Sometimes the best thing we can do for kids isn’t remove the hard thing.
It’s help them learn how to walk through it.
40 7th grade girls learning to RDL in just under 20 minutes.
Watch this whole video.
Feet under hips
Calves on bench
Break at the knee
Flat tight back
Butt back until hammies stop you
Bar touching all the way down and up
Or bar touching head, t spine, and rear
Then real RDL
Remember: There are plenty of brilliant people who do nothing with their lives...and average people who lap them.
Work ethic, passion, and initiative will take you everywhere you want to go.