The value of strength coaches for high school and college athletes

What most student-athletes and parents do not know is that there is only a small window of opportunity for an athlete to excel to the highest levels in their sport. The athlete has roughly 3 years to gain a starting position on the high school playing field, create an athletic resume worthy of recognition and create opportunities for a scholarship to play at a division IA, IAA or II university.

Once an athlete makes it to the NCAA level, the athlete must start the process over again. They must continue to enhance their athletic ability to gain a starting position against an even better pool of athletes, again create the stats and performance worthy of recognition at this higher level in order to be recognized by professional scouts. Because of this very difficult process of weeding out the “good” from the elite, the majority of athletes that make it to the next level were born with extraordinary genetics for size, speed and strength with little training or effort.

Are you one of those few gifted athletes? Are you 6′4″ 250 lbs and lean and fast? Can you run a true sub 4.5 sec. 40 yd dash any day of the week without endless hours on the track. Can you bench press 400 lbs without a well-designed program and hours of hard work every single week? Were you able to dunk a basketball when you were 14 yrs old? If you cannot answer yes to most of these questions then the answer is no, you are not a genetic anomaly.

Does that mean that you have zero chance at making it to the next level in your sport? Absolutely not! But once again, the main issue is that there is a very small window of opportunity for the “good” athletes to level the playing field with these genetic freaks that they are forced to compete against. One of the greatest investments an athlete will ever make is in the expertise of an elite strength and speed coach with the knowledge of what it takes to make it to the next level and how to get there. This decision could mean the difference between being a mediocre athlete at the high school level to earning countless accolades throughout their playing career. The difference between being a good high school athlete, and a potential scholarship athlete. The difference between having an average college athletic career and graduating to the pro level.