Everyone is your teacher!

Isn’t it great when you have that “duh” moment when you feel like you knew something wasn’t right but you didn’t know what and then all of a sudden…. On goes the light!

Yesterday I was training one of my young athletes and there came the moment when I had to say,” Hey we need to focus on what we are doing and get this done”! The youngster kept asking me,Hey can we play this game and this game and how about that game?

My response at that time was, “Well, if you do these lifting movements we are supposed to do for 30 min. then we can play those games”

The problem here was that I was thinking and not listening. I was thinking how I needed to get this boy prepared to go into his football season and that we shouldn’t waste time on things that wouldn’t help him get stronger for that purpose.

I wasn’t listening to what he was really saying. He had no problem doing the activities he viewed as playing because….duh… they were fun! They were a heck of a lot more fun than doing the weight training or sport movements that he had done in the past few weeks and I wasn’t aware enough to pick up on it.

We did eventually play the games and he did leave and say how much fun he had. On a side note, I need to tell you something about the games. They weren’t games like playing catch or scrabble. No. The games we did play dealt with things like kneeling on stability balls for time or knocking each other off while kneeling on the ball. Balancing on the Patch Fitness System and trying to see who could muscle each other off and ,of course, The obstacle course.

Which would you rather do?

I pride myself on making my workouts entertaining, fun and challenging and I just have to laugh at myself when even I, a 20 + year experienced coach, has the occasional, duh moment.

If you have kids and whether they are athletic or not, never forget the fun factor when creating an exercise or movement program because after all...

what we are hoping to give our kids are good memories that will last a life time.

Now go out and play and until next time,

Keep it fun!
Coach Billy