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PSA for Sport Coaches Running Weight Rooms and Strength Coaches Who Do NOT Lift + High School Weight Room Safety
Something I have always been passionate about is NOT just training, but LIVING the very thing I teach or endorse others to do.
Since 2002, when I started full time Strength and Conditioning, I was always against the "old guard" - these Sport Coaches would run the weight room for athletes yet teach NOTHING.
They sat at a desk with coffee, a newspaper back in the day - today, a lap top or on their phone.
It amazes me that they do nothing yet they expect greatness from the athletes when they do NOTHING themselves.
This Video sums it up perfectly:
Kids today are certainly distracted BIG time by the phone, but, they are NOT dumb.
If the "Coach" in the weight room is NOT strong him or herself, they see a fraud a mile away. It is not enough to talk about it, you must LIVE it.
There are also college students who are studying exercise science, want to be a Strength Coach, yet they train like a bodybuilder or worse, do NOT train at all!
If you want to train like a bodybuilder, you must learn the methods from The Golden and Silver Era of bodybuilding, not the cable pully 20 lb bull shit we see today.
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Do you ever see a Dentist with rotten teeth? Of course not.
Kids see the fraud a mile away, but oddly enough, many parents and school athletic directors / administrators do not.
The WORK is what inspires me. This is why I love GPP Training Methods - they are methods of WORK. Combat athletes especially need GPP and the inexperienced weight room supervisor doesn't understand GPP.
Why? They can only randomly cut and paste TikTok and IG videos.
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How do the Wrong people become the "Leaders" in the weight room?
They don't train themselves yet they are in charge in the most dangerous room in the school?
We do not allow English, Science, Music, etc to be taught without a certification but the weight room is acceptable with an uneducated, unqualified and inexperienced adult?
Perhaps some people are smooth talkers, I don't know. I only understand doing the WORK.
Athletic Directors and School Admin MUST do a better job of screening who is teaching in the weight room.
Now, as much as Coaches need to train so they understand AND can inspire their athletes, the same lesson applies for athletes.
We see a LOT of athletes who don't do the work to EARN a spot on their sport team.
You must Build Body ARMOR, Strength, Power and GRIT.
EARN IT - ATHLETE MESSAGE
Below is a conversation on Building BODY ARMOR for Athletes:
See you in the Squat Rack!
Live the Code 365,
Zach Even - Esh
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