You don’t get points for good intentions. If you don’t know what you’re doing, stay out of their way.
“Hosting workouts for children when you’re not highly qualified to coach them is negligence at best and a (massive) liability at worst.
You don’t get points for good intentions.
You’re actually stealing points from their development.
There are lanes on the road for a reason.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
Youth Strength & Conditioning/Performance training is quite literally the most important resource in a youth athletes toolbox.
There isn’t a close second.
Some (who have no idea what they are talking about) may argue that more sport is the answer, but that’d be like saying running 2 marathons in a day is better than 1 because it’s more.
Our kids, who haven’t been run off (yet), are already playing too high volumes of specific sport. More is not the answer.
Training is the answer.
But here is where the problem lies.
Most adults whether this be parents, sport coaches, teachers, or well-intentioned Samaritans in your community have no idea how to properly train the developing athlete.
They don’t understand the value of the concept and view it as a secondary “extra” when in reality it’s the main componentry that drives the vehicle to success.
It’d be like overspending on rims for your carn with money you saved on discount tires.
Sensible people would never do that (keyword: sensible).
But we toy around with our children’s performance potential and leave it up to Jimmy’s Dad to put them through some ladders and hurdles at the ball field, a time or two a week and believe it’s acceptable because he has “good intentions”?
Or we’re fine with that unqualified sport coach programming power cleans because that’s what he did back in his day? We’re going to make the kid’s really tired and think that in some way that translates to effectiveness? Just turn the music up and listen to me because “I’m coach!”?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I commend and appreciate anyone willing to invest their time in our kids, but if the time you’re investing isn’t being utilized properly, you’re wasting your time, their time, and most importantly their performance potential today and tomorrow.
You don’t get a gold star for stepping up when you don’t know what you’re doing. You don’t get extra points for being the guy who “takes on” that responsibility.
You get points for professionally coaching and tangibly enhancing athletic outputs.
If you don’t fit the bill, stay the hell out of their way.
You’re doing more harm than good.
Anybody can fool the unknowing.
