Training Young Athletes Successfully

I’ll be blunt, brief and to the point with this email.

You’re making a big mistake when training young athletes.

And it’s the same mistake virtually every single Coach and Trainer makes.

It’s got nothing to do with speed, agility, flexibility or strength.

It has nothing to do with sets, reps or program design.

It’s got to do with assessment and training session length.

And I don’t mean the kind of assessment where you take your young
athletes through a specific battery of tests in order to discover any
dysfunctions or asymmetries.

I mean the kind of assessment in which you actually pay attention to
how they feel on a certain day.

That’s your mistake.

You don’t alter your training program on a given day even though on
most days it’s 100% necessary to do so.

We think that the quality of a training session is measured in sweat and
effort.

Lots of sweat and tons of hard work = good.

No sweat and minimal work = bad.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

‘John’ came in for his training session with me this past Saturday morning.

Exhausted from the night before and preparing for a basketball game later
on that day, he just wasn’t ready for the training session that I had planned
for him.

So I scrapped it.

Pure and simple.

Of course I have an agenda for this young man.

Places I need to take him in terms of speed and strength, but I can’t force
him to improve.

More over, I have to hang in the balance the fact that my ultimate goal is
to make him a better athlete – which includes limiting any injury potential
he may be facing.

Here’s the advice that you simply must heed when training young athletes.

And it’s the mistake virtually every Coach and Trainer is making –

What you want to do in a training session doesn’t always matter. You have
to be sure that the organism in front of you in prepared to receive it.

Words to live by.

I will be explaining the key points of this concept at my first annual
International Summit in February of 2009.

Until this Friday (December 19) you can gain access to this event through a
very basic and easy payment plan.

With the Holidays around the corner, no one wants to shell out big bucks for
something other than presents for their loved one’s.

Well, I’ve taken care of that for you with this incredibly easy 3-month
payment plan to assist you with Training Young Athletes.

Have a look for yourself by clicking on this very exclusive link –

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‘Till next time,

Brian