@J_Thack1 Summer workouts are not some magical 🦄 of progress & otherworldly team bonding experience… - Is there work and install to get done, yes. - Anyone making it more than that runs a 💩 365/year developmental program.
If you hear “Sport Specific Training” it’s 100% a sign to run the other way.
Athletes should not view their S&C as a Player, but as an ATHLETE.
Bigger, Faster, Stronger Athletes thrive in all arenas. S&C should improve Global Force capabilities, NOT practice skills.
100% healthy, 80% in shape
Speed > Endurance
Performance > Grind
Winning > Hard Work
The disciplined pursuit of less ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Not the undisciplined pursuit of more. 🚫 https://t.co/ZmPJhbLOKF
It's my hope to one day convince coaches and athletes that they DO NOT need to condition like this. Over the last 30 years, despite being open minded, I remain convinced more than ever that this is detrimental to elite performance and causes much more harm than any alleged benefit.
THERE IS a better way.
Always love when my 6’4+ 270+ lineman report back to me that they ran 10, 110’s that morning at workout. Mental toughness is needed, but there is a difference between Tough-Smart and Tough-Dumb….
Every high school football team in America will soon begin their summer workouts.
I’m here to discourage as many coaches as I can from having their players run 20 110s as I possibly can.
Player health > “We’ve always done this”
I’m not a “you have to play multiple sports” guy at all. I’m a “do what you want to do and enjoy 1 sport or 5 sports” guy…what do you and your parents think is best.
BUT let me leave these for those adults pushing kids to give up sports they WANT to play in and focus on one sport to “play at the next level”.
I got news for you. 98% of you are still going to be paying for college or getting academic scholarships.
So play the sports you enjoy in high school. Stop listening to the fake noise. Be a kid and enjoy it. Anyone telling you different has a motive behind it. ESPECIALLY if you pay those people for their services. Just sayin….
I’ve been working with and around high school for a few years now. One things is clear, being a high school is THE WORST environment for peak performance.
Between school & club. Coaches that don’t know what they’re doing and GRINDING them into the ground. Private trainers teaching nonsense….
They don’t eat or sleep enough. Get insane pressure from their OWN FAMILY about getting a scholarship offers….
It’s no wonder we see all these soft soft tissue injuries year round. Let alone perfecting combine style training for testing!
@tommyreamon Definitely lots of average to below average coaches winning football games. Also, lots of really great coaches not winning many, and it has nothing to do with coaching acumen.
Taking algebra doesn’t make you a math teacher. Lifting/playing in college doesn’t make you a strength coach. A PE license covers PE—not the weight room, program design, coaching kids under a bar. We would never do this anywhere else in education. The weight room is no exception.