Pro Athletes have Pro Strength Coaches, but your kid can do it on his own?
“When you go to practice, do you just google some stuff & go out and do it on your own? Or do you have a coach lead you?
But with your ‘training’ (the construct that enhances performance in sport), a self-led, cookie cutter, bro ‘shred’ program from the internet is sufficient?”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
Do Professional Athletes need and use Professional Strength & Conditioning Coaches? Undoubtedly, yes.
But a kid not a few years removed from mastering the tying of their shoes, being influenced by TikTok can go into a globo gym having no idea what he/she is doing and probably get a good training session in?
I mean the elite of the elite need and use Professional Strength Coaches, how on earth can an adolescent put together and perform a quality training program, implement it, and adapt it on their own?
I’ll tell you. It’s damn near impossible.
Do you think Pro Athletes “know about” squats, rdl’s, and lunges?
Of course they do. They likely know how to perform them with high levels of technical competency and are likely relatively strong in the exercises as well.
Do they have access to equipment to buy for their basements/access to any gym they could possibly want to go to?
The answer is yes.
Pro Athletes have the know how, and the resources to be able to do all this training stuff on their own.
But why don’t they?
It’s because they know the value isn’t found in knowing about exercises or being able to ‘find a work out’ on the internet. The value isn’t found in simply having access. Access is everywhere.
The value in a professional S&C Coach manifests itself in a variety of compounding levels.
Of course safety is of the utmost importance for any person in the weight room so job number 1 of the S&C is to ensure your child’s safety.
From there it’s building and developing an age appropriate, developmentally sound, athletic performance inducing, highly regulated and adapted in real time training program. (Yeah, it’s a bit different than doing 4 sets of 10 chest flyes at the globo gym and taking a mirror selfie afterwards.)
Beyond the safety and the programming (which are worth their weight in gold) now you can start to factor in the accountability, the results (that will increase performance and confidence simultaneously), the camaraderie, and the positive habit building that has the chance to remain with kids for life.
They get none of this value spinning their wheels in the low price leader jungle known as the “Fitness Center”.
