09/05/2026
Obviously, every athlete wants to be strong AND powerful.
And believe it or not, but you can also be strong and not powerful.
Most importantly, you’re going to have a really hard time becoming powerful if you’re weak as s**t.
That’s the part parents keep trying to skip.
They want their kid to:
Sprint faster.
Jump higher.
Throw harder.
Change direction more violently.
Accelerate quicker.
Be harder to knock off the ball.
Great.
Every one of those things requires that athlete to be capable of producing FORCE and producing it quickly.
Power is the product of FORCE and VELOCITY.
So if your kid has very little ability to produce force to begin with, exactly what are we expecting them to express explosively?
This is where the “just play more” mentality completely falls apart.
Playing another 70 games this year doesn’t magically give a weak athlete more muscle.
It doesn’t automatically make them stronger.
It doesn’t teach their nervous system to recruit that muscle more effectively.
It doesn’t replace dedicated sprint training.
It doesn’t replace learning how to accelerate, decelerate, jump, land and change direction.
And it sure as hell doesn’t replace progressive strength training.
Your kid cannot spend 12 months a year USING their athletic abilities while spending zero time actually BUILDING those abilities.
Young athletes need time year-round to get stronger, add useful muscle, learn to produce force, and then learn to produce that force FAST.
Because eventually there’s a ceiling on how explosive a weak athlete can become.
And here’s the part nobody wants to hear:
If you fill every available training opportunity with another practice, tournament, showcase, camp or travel team, your kid isn’t necessarily “maintaining.”
While everyone else is getting bigger, stronger and faster,
your kid is falling behind.
Your kid doesn't need another fu***ng team.
Your kid needs to become a better fu***ng athlete.
