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3 Solid Strength Training Tips For Young Athletes…

January 16, 2014
Brandon
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by: Brandon Richey

3 Solid Strength Training Tips For Young Athletes…

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I always enjoy getting to help the young Jedi’s of strength when it comes to guiding them in their path towards obtaining strength and performance for life and sport. The excitement of a young spirit looking to build themselves up like the larger than life coaches and athletes that they most admire is an awesome thing. I’m lucky to be in a position to where I can help influence all of the athletes that I do both young and old.

Strength Tip Of The Day…Survival Strength

January 14, 2014
Brandon
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by: Brandon Richey

Strength Tip Of The Day…Survival Strength

Lone Survivor

This past weekend me and my fiancé went to see the new movie Lone Survivor with Mark Wahlberg. The movie is based around the real life experience and book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. Lone Survivor tells the story of four Navy SEALs on a mission to kill a Taliban terrorist and end up getting surrounded and into a violent firefight with hostiles in a mountainous region of Afghanistan.

Like Anything Else… Strength Is A Skill!

May 13, 2013
Brandon
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Skills That Pay The Bills by dulk

So the other day I had a couple of newbies to come into one of my classes for the very first time and with me everyone gets evaluated on day 1. I brought them in and in the usual order of things immediately started working on walking them through my series of dynamic warm ups, the conditioning phase, and then ultimately I had a look at how well they could squat, deadlift, and just move in general. During this process I got some interesting looks from the trainees as I started them in on this approach. I could tell this was a completely new experience for them!

Sports Done Backwards…Youth Strength Training Fail???

April 27, 2013
Brandon
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Singapore Sports School by chloe.Ry

The other day I started reading a little article about youth athletes and the number of travel teams, sports leagues, and other things that we have these days for exposing youngsters to the world of athletic competition. There is no doubt about the growth of these leagues in nearly every sport and it seems that the population continues to grow more and more every season.

As a strength coach I’ve been fortunate to work with a great deal of pro level athletes, but I’ve also trained a great deal of youngsters as well over the years. Because of the training experience with the youngsters I want to talk about a possible problem with a great deal of America’s approach to sports, at least to a certain degree.