Starting Strength

Building An Empire

by Matt Reynolds

“Sport coaches, who are typically excellent people, are vastly undereducated in strength and conditioning. They print out poorly designed cookie-cutter programs and expect enormous results. Or worse, kids are left to do whatever they want in the weight room. Full of enthusiasm, they still ultimately choose a hodgepodge program made of a mix of the latest fitness trends and weight training fallacies, and end up spinning their wheels and never making progress. The athletes are left pathetically weak and underweight, and the only things that grow are their egos (from 6″high squats) and their biceps (from training them 3 days per week). Our system is broken. If a change is to ever occur it must start with the coach.”

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