And it’s not their fault, either. They are being manipulated by financially motivated adults and people living on decades debunked wives tails.
“Biggest asset to the Youth Athlete:
Professionally coached S&C.
Least prioritized asset to the Youth Athlete:
Professionally coached S&C.
Nothing like skipping over the lowest hanging performance enhancing fruit when we can find problems for every solution, instead.
‘Merica.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
It’s 2023.
The benefits of Professionally coached Strength & Conditioning were wildly apparent many decades ago.
The notion was defended by anecdotal research from pioneers of the field, but then backed by inarguable research confirming the benefits.
Even if you were on the fence in the 80’s & 90’s, you’d still have been wrong to argue against it, but in 2023, the concept of minimizing, ignoring, or even steering athletes away from S&C is nothing short of negligible ignorance.
In the modern era, if you’re an athlete or the parent of an athlete and you or your child are not partaking very seriously in a Professionally coached S&C program, you, at best will not physically have the ability to maximize your potential and at worst, will be left behind.
There is no other way to put it. Not in 2023. I cannot sugar coat it, not in the highly competitive athletics world we live in where people everywhere are pillaging resources to gain an edge.
You think because you “put in a lot of work at the field” you’ll become “the best you can be?”
That isn’t how it works.
Sure, we have law of specificity, but technical skill is not the modern athlete’s limiting factor.
Coachable Physical Preparedness, Strength, Speed, & Power that will increase athletic outputs are the modern youth athlete’s limiting factors.
You can’t just swing the bat 100 more times or throw the ball an extra day a week.
You have to train the body.
You have to stress the body physiologically so that it can adapt and increase its’ output potential.
This is done in the weight room.
A weight room that needs a Professional Coach, not the sport coach or Jimmy’s dad who used to do 4 sets of 10 back in his day on the leg press.
20 years ago, you could “get away with” a half-ass program, but not today, today you need real.
In order to get the most out of the youth athlete, we must open our eyes to reality.
We must stop minimizing the most important componentry of their athletic development.
We must prioritize REAL Strength & Conditioning.
This takes making an investment with a REAL coach.
A coach who knows how to navigate and lead them.
