Choose who is mentoring them wisely.
“Choose who is training your kids wisely.
It’s not about ‘today’ or ‘sports’.
Coaching training is about teaching kids to positively associate with fitness & build habits that will have direct, critical implications on the length, value, & quality of their existence.”
-Ray Zingler on X
It’s important.
So incredibly important.
As we walk through a modern landscape that isn’t teaching, much less leading the charge in the realm of physical culture, our kids desperately need to be coached by qualified personnel.
We live in a day and age of under generalization and overspecialization and many adults submit to this ideology because they (falsely) believe in focusing on the “right now” for their kids.
They fall in line and follow the crowd for no other reason than everybody else is doing it.
They think the abundance of structured, specific, activity is going to translate to a scholarship and believe their kids are checking the “activity box” in the process.
But do you know what happens when the forced accountability stimulus in their lives is no more?
They stop.
They don’t just go do it on their own.
They don’t have to anymore.
This is especially true if the person/people leading their physical training left a bad impression on them.
And rest wildly assure, when it comes to physical preparation and generalized training, MOST adults they encounter have no, and I mean, NO idea what they’re doing.
Bad training on top of bad training all in the names of “getting tired” and “building mental toughness”.
Not only does randomly getting kids tired not improve performance, mental toughness isn’t developed how the out of shape coaches screaming at kids think it is.
What these immature, unquailed adults are actually doing with each ridiculous prescription is creating a barrier.
They are curating resentment in our kids, leading them to disassociate with the idea of health and fitness.
As you know (or should know) our kids are highly impressionable. They are like sponges.
This makes coaching training an unbelievably high stakes RESPONSIBILITY.
A terrible coach can literally ruin a life.
While a great one can add unending value to one.
When you teach kids to positively associate with training, you’re not just “teaching them how to workout”..
You’re instilling in them habits that will serve them for the rest of their lives.
I’m talking life altering implications.
Choose who is training your kids wisely. The length, value, & quality of their existence hinges on it.
If you don’t think so, take a look around at the average American.
