9 Lessons from 7 years of athlete development.

One thing that we like to think makes us different from performance gyms is our focus on holistic athlete development. While much of the sports performance is focused on maximizing the current potential of athletes, we were focused on the long haul. When we get a freshman athlete in the gym, we aren’t necessarily worried about them getting ready for next season. Is there a place for acute conditioning and maximizing performance? One hundred percent. However, most of the time we’re more focused on what can we do now to help our athletes 3, 4, 5 + years down the road. It maybe nuanced, but it’s a different mindset and an approach that requires grit from our athletes and coaches. That mindset has helped us develop 15 Division 1 athletes, 3 MLB Draft Picks, another 35 or so collegiate athletes. Half of those athletes trained with us for multiple years, many from middle school all the way to College. Here’s 9 lessons we’ve learned through our development journey. Need of every athlete and the requirements of every sport are a little different, but for the most conventional sports, these are truth and help make up much of our training philosophy. That said, the most important lesson we’ve learned is in a quote from Socrates, “The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing”.