October 2016 - Next Level Athletics

Archive

Monthly Archives: October 2016

Why Most Youth Strength Training Programs Suck

The vast majority of youth “strength training” or “athletic performance” programs suck.

Why?

1. They fail to make you strong.

2. They don’t teach you how to move well – which is a pre-requisite for getting strong.

Here’s one of our 17-year-olds sumo deadlifting 190 kg / 418 pounds for 5 reps.

And it’s not uncommon for our 16- and 17-year-olds to do walking lunges with 80, 90, or even 100+ kg as you see here…

Not to toot my own horn or anything…

But our guys get strong.

And they do so while displaying good lifting form.

Unfortunately, this is hardly the case with most junior hockey players.

I’ve talked about what’s wrong with our current way of training young athletes before in detail in this post.

And now, STACK.com published my article where I explain the biggest mistake in youth strength training programs.

Read the full scoop here:

The Biggest Mistake in Youth Strength Training Programs

How to Become a Strength and Conditioning Coach

I’ve received several questions on how to enter the field of strength and conditioning, and how to get into coaching athletes over the last couple of months.

Questions like:

“How do I get started with training athletes?”

“Which certifications should I get?”

“What continuing education tools do you recommend?”

“Yunus, how come you keep getting more handsome every year that passes?”

Rather than answer all those emails landing in my inbox one-by-one, I’m putting this article up as mandatory reading for all ya peeps entertaining thoughts on becoming a strength coach.

barbell_550x309

Breaking into strength and conditioning certainly isn’t easy if you don’t already have established connections within the industry.

Fear ye not, though.

I’ve compiled your 12-month curriculum for How to Become a Strength and Conditioning Coach 101 below.

Follow the five steps I lay out for one full year, and you’ll be well on your way to becoming a strength coach, and further ahead than 98% of those contemplating getting into the field.

Continue Reading
>