I once trained a good high school athlete that was urgently in need of getting bigger, more powerful and faster. I don’t like urgent, training an athlete properly takes time, but this was the circumstance.
The athlete had QB’s his football team over two years to a 24-3 record and into the State Championship football game his senior year, playing 14 games that fall. Following the State Championship football game, he had four days before starting on his high school basketball team, which played 20 games into the last week in February.
Prior to his senior football season he weighed 182 lbs. Although he was in a weight training class at his high school, by the end of basketball season, his weight had dropped to 168 lbs. He nor his parents were paying close attention to his eating habits or his lame weight lifting efforts and results at the high school. Often he would go to school in the morning with a bottle of Gatorade for breakfast.
Losing 14 lbs over six months of practice and games, the transformation in his physical profile was transparent. He had signed a letter of intent to play QB at a junior college and track season was fast approaching.
Urgency prevailed. His option was to train and eat like never before or potentially end any successful playing days. I suggested he “buy into the urgency” or the consequences would not be favorable! He bought in!
Over ten weeks of Dynamic Force Weight Training, eating a legitimate breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus supplementing his daily diet with two shakes, Optimum Nutritions Serious Mass, using whole milk and a table spoon of peanut butter [one before school and one before bedtime, approximately 2600 calories total] BSNONLINE’s Cell Mass following training every day, he gained 24 lbs, increased his bench press 35 lbs., developed special muscle groups for throwing the discus and improved his speed. He set his high school discus record near 170? and checked into June summer school classes at the junior college at 6?2?, 193lbs. His junior college coaches were happy!
Note to Parents: Get involved and love your kid if you want he or she to do the best they are capable of doing! In this instance, this athlete was my own kid. I was too engaged in training non-winter sports athletes for spring sports, was not paying close enough attention and simply enjoying watching him play basketball!
Often an athlete doesn’t “buy in” to your desire for the immense work involved, particularly if he or she is your kid, as was this situation. If they do not, it is okay! Simply help them discover a passion and interest that compels them to do their best and then give them all the support you can!
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