They’re going to tell you to do the wrong stuff so they can better profit off of your naïveté.
“Fearing strength training is fearing safety.
Fearing strength training is fearing confidence.
Fearing strength training is fearing performance.
Much like most of what pop culture conditions you to fear (for financial gain), what they say is “bad” is exactly what you need.”
-Ray Zingler on X
What do the government & the sports performance industry have in common?
They’re going to tell you to do the wrong shit, because it sells better.
“Meat & Eggs are bad for you! Don’t eat them!”
“Eat CheezeItz & processed sugar snacks, they’re better!”
Yeah, they’re better in the context that the government can then profit off medicating your preventable disease.
“Don’t do strength training, it will stunt your kid’s growth. Do speed & agility instead?”
What in the absolute hell?
The growth stunting myths have been debunked for decades before your kid was even born and you’re still letting fear mongering wives’ tales rob your kid of their potential. Wild.
And do “speed & agility” instead? You mean speed & agility that doesn’t exist without a relative base of strength to improve the desired “speed & agility” qualities? Weird.
It’s like telling people to buy a car and not worry about whether it has an engine in it, because at least it looks cool.
You think being strong is dangerous (what a weird thing to say out loud, lol)? Try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.
Strength is safety. Strength is security. Strength is selflessness. Strength is a responsibility.
If you fear strength, you fear enhancing confidence.
You want to know the most critical athletic trait of any athlete is in any sport? It’s not 40-yard dash time, or technical skill. It’s confidence.
Do you want to know where the easiest place to quantifiably increase your confidence is? The weight room.
The confidence increased in there transfers to their confidence out there.
Strength isn’t the be all end all. And “strength training” doesn’t look at all like what most naïve, unknowing folks perceive it to look like.
It’s not 350 pounds on your back with bad technique and a blood red face.
It’s strategically planned and progressed modalities to improve the preparation, resilience, and potential of the athlete.
And the earlier you have your kid start (under professional guidance) the more potential he/she will have.
Why?
Because the more time we have, the deeper and wider we can pour their foundation.
Don’t sell out to what looks good in theory because it’s easy.
Sell into what actually works best in practice.
