Gym training is so excellent. But the problem I found was that if you want to train for a sport-hockey-there’s so much fluff out there if you want to pay someone to train you. I was very surprised to come across several organizations whose training philosophy and practices offer very low efficiency for strength and agility as pertains to hockey. For example, one trainer was convinced that plyometrics could simply be substituted in place of high intensity strength training. And he does this because his hockey athletes don’t usually have enough time to spend doing Olympic lifts to get the right posture and then progress in that. He doesn’t seem to understand that these two things work in different ways and should be employed in tandem. And this is an expensive training facility that works with hockey players. And if you had no knowledge of athletic training, as a parent, you would waste thousands on something like this. It’s not that this training offers no benefit. It’s just very low efficiency by comparison to what can be done. So the comment I’d like to make for anyone looking into this, is educate yourself about fitness science, and athletic training. Don’t let the dude who’s trying to sell you a package be your only source of knowledge on the subject.
This is crazy hard. 12-15yr old (mostly?) shouldn't be in the gym apart from cardio. It's also super difficult to disagree or even know if these experts (with gyms filled with prospects) are any good. There are too many 'high end' kids going to these. Aaaand then you have coaches or their 'appointed' gyms. Good luck making a team if you say 'no' if your a bubble kid.
Gym training is so excellent. But the problem I found was that if you want to train for a sport-hockey-there’s so much fluff out there if you want to pay someone to train you. I was very surprised to come across several organizations whose training philosophy and practices offer very low efficiency for strength and agility as pertains to hockey. For example, one trainer was convinced that plyometrics could simply be substituted in place of high intensity strength training. And he does this because his hockey athletes don’t usually have enough time to spend doing Olympic lifts to get the right posture and then progress in that. He doesn’t seem to understand that these two things work in different ways and should be employed in tandem. And this is an expensive training facility that works with hockey players. And if you had no knowledge of athletic training, as a parent, you would waste thousands on something like this. It’s not that this training offers no benefit. It’s just very low efficiency by comparison to what can be done.
So the comment I’d like to make for anyone looking into this, is educate yourself about fitness science, and athletic training. Don’t let the dude who’s trying to sell you a package be your only source of knowledge on the subject.
This is crazy hard. 12-15yr old (mostly?) shouldn't be in the gym apart from cardio.
It's also super difficult to disagree or even know if these experts (with gyms filled with prospects) are any good. There are too many 'high end' kids going to these.
Aaaand then you have coaches or their 'appointed' gyms. Good luck making a team if you say 'no' if your a bubble kid.