If you want to be sure they aren’t maximizing their time, drop them off at a globo gym.
“‘I saw on TikTok..’
I’ve studied, practiced, tested on myself, validated, and coached thousands of others, every day of my life with extreme intentionality for over 20 years.. and I’m still learning.
Our kid’s need coaching.
Dropping them off at a cheap ‘health club’ ain’t it.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
If it’s not every day, it damn sure feels like its every day, I hear “So this guy on tiktok…” or “I saw on Instagram..” and I think to myself, there is no way these kids believe this crap they see on social media coming from human pin cushions.
And then I see them wearing their “merch” and I’m forced to back up, “holy shit, they actually believe this stuff.”
As much as I hate this, it’s real.
Kids will take a superbly edited 45-second social media video shot by their favorite “FitFluencer” in contest shape and tie their entire “training philosophy” to that one small video clip that had a bunch of likes.
This is dangerous for a variety of reasons.
Kid’s need coaching. They need leaders. They need mentors.
Leaving it up to them to do it on their own is the fastest way to expense money, results, and our most precious resource of them all, TIME.
See people gravitate to these fitness centers because they are cheap. Well guess what, simply having access to a lot when you don’t know what you’re doing is without value. These globo gyms understand this exquisitely, which is why they charge $20/month to prey upon your lack of knowledge & discipline.
Cheap things aren’t valuable. Valuable things aren’t cheap.
Simply dumping a kid off at a globo gym and expensing a quality ROI is the definition of a poor use of resources.
They don’t know what they are doing. They are aimlessly following some idiots program with big arms in an effort to “improve strength for baseball.”
Are you kidding me?
You mean to tell me that Professional Athletes needs Professional Performance coaches, but your kid is getting “sufficient work” on his own at the big box.. Your kid who isn’t a decade removed from learning to tie his shoes?
I, and many of my colleagues in the field have been at this daily, for months, years, decades, working relentlessly to crack the code and guess what. We still haven’t. We are still working. We are still students.
If printing out a program and going to perform the sets & reps (incorrectly) was all there was to it, everybody would be running around enjoying the pinnacle of their potential.
