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STRONG LIFE PODCAST EP 583 🎙️
Athletes & Parents STOPPED Caring about STRENGTH & Getting JACKED?
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ATHLETES AND PARENTS DON'T CARE ABOUT GETTING STRONG ANYMORE??!!
I've been thinking about this a LOT lately...
It's not just that some athletes don't care about getting stronger.
Their parents don't seem to care either. It's actually RARE to hear from a parent who talks about and even remotely understands the importance of building body armor and strength.
I've seen kids who play Football skip lifting for a entire month...
And the parents are completely fine with it.
You try to explain why strength training matters — especially for football, wrestling, lacrosse, baseball, whatever — and sometimes they don't want to hear it. They are offended by a Coach caring about their kid.
They don't want the "lecture".
They don't want to hear me "preach" about why their kid needs to get stronger and keep on building size.
They just want their kid to play. And I get it.
But here's the problem...
You can't build a great athlete if you don't build the strength, size and power. You must build the engine!
Strength matters.
Muscle matters aka Body Armor
Power matters.
Being physically prepared matters.
And somewhere along the way, we've gone from "Get Strong" to "Just show up and play your sport."
I think that's a HUGE mistake and a major reason why we see so many injuries. Go watch a Football game, wrestling match, etc and you don't see arms stretching jerseys. You don't see traps stretching singlets.
And it got me thinking about what changed.
I grew up in the 80's watching Rocky, Rambo, Arnold, Sly, Van Damme...
Being strong was something you wanted.
You wanted to look strong.
You wanted to BE strong.
You wanted to be physically capable.
Today?
I'm not sure that's the case anymore.
And that's what I get into on STRONG Life Podcast #583.
ATHLETES AND PARENTS DON'T CARE ABOUT GETTING STRONG ANYMORE??!! - and that is SCARY.
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