The problem is that they don’t translate to improved performance, just exhaustion.
“There is nothing easier than creating & implementing a hard workout that makes people tired.
Small children without any knowledge can do it.
Now to design & implement a progressive training program that consistently enhances performance?
That’s an art most don’t know.”
-Ray Zingler on X
“That work out was so hard!!”
I hear people say stuff like this all the time, and while most people’s typical response is something along the lines of “Well, what did you do?”
My response is typically: “Was it effective?”
This is usually met with a blank stare.
But it’s an important question to ask to (try to) get people to critically think.
You want to know the number one sign of following an amateur coach/trainer? Mindless hard workouts.
My son is 4. Literally 4 years old. He, with no struggle at all could create and tell you to do a hard work out. There quite literally isn’t an easier thing to do from a coach’s perspective than make a hard workout.
You literally just come up with a few random things, combine them together, with low rest periods, and yell. A few moments later, you’ll have kids sprawled out in the floor gasping for air while you think about how “built different” you are as a coach.
Again, dumb as dumb gets.
Now to design & implement a progressive training program that consistently enhances performance?
That’s an art your weekend warrior bro “coach” (typically reading off a script) will never know anything about.
That’s hard.
That takes knowledge.
That takes effort.
And most importantly, that takes real experience to refine.
We undervalue the real stuff, but why?
It’s because the nonsense on social media covered in shock value in glitter steals the show.
The all gas no brakes, navy seal bullshit is “cool” so the amateurs, who let’s be honest, are running most of the shows, just put together a county fair of crap that make our kids tired and slap the “training” tag on it.
They pay no mind to sustainability, progression, repeatability, etc. you know, actual training.
And for this reason our kids and parents who are blindly following this crap are the ones who lose.
They have tired, sweaty kids who didn’t actually get any better.
The objective of training will never be “tired”.
It will always be better.
If your trainer can’t give you a global, objective based outlook on his or her highly thought out progressive, long term-training model and defend why they are doing “x”, you shouldn’t probably, but definitely look for a new coach.
