Stronger, Faster, Healthier...All Season Long

URGENT!!

Parents, Coaches and Players!

All-Star Sports Academy urges you to read this and
take action now!! Athletes across America will lose millions of hours of playing time to needless injuries this season!

Don’t let your son or daughter be one of them!

Read on and play on…all season long!

High school athletes everywhere train for months in the off-season in order to improve strength, power, speed, agility, quickness and injury resistance.

These same athletes perform well early in the season but tend to see not only a reduction in performance related to their training, but the onset of common injuries as the season progresses.

It doesn’t have to be this way!

You probably know someone who lost weight through diet and exercise only to gain it all back. You also know why. These people stopped doing the things that helped them get healthy in the first place!

The same is true for athletes. Why? For athletes, the lack of an in-season training program causes them to slowly lose much of the performance gains that were made in the off-season.

Coaches generally do one of two things: 1.) focus all their energy on sports-related skill sets, or 2.) use “training methods” that are ineffective and in some cases counterproductive, dangerous and damaging to the stamina and health of the athlete.

As the season wears on, athletes get slower, weaker and less responsive to the “training methods” being used. Most alarming is that the odds of injury for a given athlete go through the roof!

So what’s the answer? We know that a majority of injuries occur somewhat later in the season; the lack of in-season training causes the athlete’s body to become weaker and unable to recover as quickly or completely as it should.

Much like yo-yo dieting, this yo-yo training style is disastrous for the athletic body! This situation can be avoided with relative ease.

Here’s an example. The University of Maryland National Championship Men’s Soccer Team added just 20-25 minutes of functional strength training to their routine 3-4 times a week to help their players continue to increase their strength during the season.

Other teams were getting weaker as the season wore on. The Terps were getting stronger, right into the national tournament. Coaches and players agreed that the strength training played an important role in their run to the National Title.

So why don’t more teams and athletes utilize in-season functional strength training programs?

Excuses range from “I don’t have time” to ”I don’t want to tire myself out.” Time? Fatigue? ONLY two hours of functional strength, flexibility, and injury prevention training each week is all that's needed to be a stronger, faster, and HEALTHIER player at the end of the season.

Want to keep your “edge” all season?

Then you need to All-Star Sports Academy today at 732-597-3725 and find out more about our in-season injury prevention & recovery/regeneration system.

Why Sound Bite Training is Dangerous!

"Put 4 inches on your vertical in just 4 weeks!"

"Be the fastest player on the field in just 6 weeks!"

These are the kind of "sound bite" claims being made by traіners who want to traіn your kids.

Right now, as you read this, these frauds are trying to dupe you!

If you're not sick of them and the culture they foster, I am.

6 week traіning programs aren't helping our athletes improve. They just don't work.

Yet that's pretty much all you see out there. Inflammatory, sensationalized flyers, brochures, ads and websites telling you how fast, strong and powerful your kids will get in 6 weeks with "Super traіner!"

It's a bunch of crap.

And it's a major cause of іnjury and over-traіning in youth sports.

Whenever I hear or read one of these traіners' claims about the miracles that will happen to your kid in his or her 6 week program, I ask the same question.

Then what?

Short term traіning programs are like promises in a political campaign. They sound great. They appeal to our desire for improvement and success.

When first presented, they make all the sense in the world. They generate excitement.

They're convincing, display clarity and simplicity, and like political campaign promises...when the chips are down and it's time to deliver, nobody can remember them.

Not that it matters; there's no chance they'll create lasting change or success. Like the political sound bite, the short term traіning program is intended to get your vote!

With the traіning program, you vote with your time, your hopes, your enthusiasm...and your money. Not to mention your kids' health!

What happens when the 6 week miracle traіning program is over?

Do you really think those improvements will stick?

Will your kids be more іnjury resistant?

Will they have learned proper traіning techniques, ones that will help them progress consistently, play better in the long term and enjoy their sport(s) more?

Or will they simply learn to focus on a "product" instead of a "process?"

You see, coaches and traіners too often use "product" based coaching, rather than focusing on creating successful "processes."

In other words, they harp on things like the faster 40 yd. dash and the bigger vertical leap without teaching their players proper mechanics and strength-building techniques.

Think about it. If you devote traіning time developing great takeoff and landing mechanics for jumping, and combine that with functional strength development, doesn't it seem to follow that theathlete's "vertical" would inevitably increase? Of course it does!

Just like the combination of teaching great sprint technique, dynamic flexibility and functionalstrength will dramaticall increase speed in all directions!

The trouble is, this kind of long-lasting, highly available athletic skill-set development can't be accomplished in a "6 weeks to 6 inches, etc." miracle program.

It comes from consistent, longer term traіning systems and good habits on the part of athletes and kids.

This is especially important for younger athletes and children. Between ages 8 and 13, it's a great time forus to help them develop proper functional movement patterns.

For many kids, this means getting themup and moving, period. But more on that another time. (Hint: look for the FitKidz© program this fall!)

Developing great movement patterns at an early age allows us to reinforce them, load them and make our kids stronger, faster, more agile, healthier and more resistant to іnjury!

The best part of this process is that the improved performance athletes get from a consistent, intelligent, "process" based traіning program will stick with them and help them in all their athletic endeavors.

Long after the "6 week miracle traіning program" and it's temporary nonsense has disappeared, like a tax cut promise in a political campaign, gains made through the development of good habits and consistent effort (in other words, a quality "process") will still be serving the athlete well.

More importantly, because of the good habits developed, the athlete will continue to get stronger, faster, more agile and more іnjury resistant.

The "6 week miracle" athlete will be steadily losing the"edge" they gained, and slipping into the "іnjury zone."

Bottom line: Michael Phelps won 8 golds at the Beijing Olympics.

The US Women's Soccer Team beat Brazil for Gold.

The US Men and Women took home Volleyball Gold.

The US swept the 400m.

It wasn't the "6 week miracle traіning program" that got them there.

Can you guess how they got their medals?

Think it might have been through a quality traіning "process?"

What do you think you'll find here at All-Star Sports Academy?

I'll give you a hint: 6 weeks is just about a good start.

Olympic Lies and Bad Advice From Beijing

If you are a C0ach, Trainer, Athlete or Parent, I promise this post will either give you a fresh perspective or anger and maybe enrage you.

OK,here goes.

A fascinating thing happened to me during this Olympics. At first, I wasn't going to watch. You know...China...human rights...etc.

But then I realized that wasn't the problem.The problem is the lesson being taught to young athletes, parents and coaches.

It started during the Opening Ceremonies. Awesome to watch, and fun to see all the lesser known countries enjoy their moment in the "glow."

Then the "lie" started being perpetrated.

"It's the Struggle, Not the Triumph."

A great T.V "bite." Majestic, powerful. Complete garbage.

Athlete after athlete looked in the camera and lied to our kids, and gave our c0aches permission to destroy them.That's right. Destroy them.

Right now, Coaches, Trainers and even Parents are reinforcing a disturbing message to participants in youth sports...It's all about hard work.

Blood, Sweat and Tears.

The "product" matters more than the process.

The hazard here is that most Coaches, Trainers and Parents act like their young athletes are elite...and end up saying things like:

"You have to work harder, Jimmy."

"No pain, no gain, Suzy."

"If you're not sore the next day, you're not working hard enough."

Or my favorite: "You heard what Michael Phelps said...You'll never make the Olympics if you don't sacrifice and push yourself!"

With due respect to Coaches and Trainers, as well as Parents, that approach is a complete crap!

For our kids and the sports they LOVE TO PLAY, it isn't about"the Struggle." And it's not about the destination.

It is about the journey. The path. It's about the process of how they get from A-Z. It's about their integrity, the lessons and about the j0y they shouldbe getting out of playing, and preparing to play, sports.

When did it become ok in America for 12 year olds to put in 28 hours a week preparing to play an All-Star Game?

Isn't being picked for a team like that supposed to be an honor?

We've developed a youth sports culture that says it's ok for us to "work kids hard every day" and beat the living crap out of them without having a real, working developmental system in place.

It's not. Period.

In fact, it's the main reason so many of our kids are getting hurt, dropping out of sports altogether. and completely disengaging from physical activity.

We've forgotten that sports are for all kids, but not all kids will,or want to, become "elite."

That destination is for the few.

The fun and appreciation for the journey of playing is for all kids.

Forgetting this is the worst sin we can commit as a s0ciety.

I won'tdo it. All-Star Sports Academy won't do it.

And I will risk the ire of Coaches, Trainers and Parents who will. You are killing the will, the joy and the physical life of our kids.

And the "Olympic Spirit" is aiding and abetting it. Right now, as you read this.

Try this on for a "guiding principle" in coaching our kids: "It's not the Destination. It's the Journey."

Words to live by.

Words to Coach by.

We can kill our kids by focusing on the Destination, the Product, or we can enrich their lives and help them grow into better athletes and better people.

If you choose the former, please stop working with our kids. Thank you.

If you disagree, or if you think I'm right on, leave a comment and let me know.

When you're ready to make your j0urney great, All-Star Sports Academy is ready.

What stops you?

Recently, a friend of mine sent me a link to a video with a note that said, "you have to watch this!"

Like most of you, I greet those messages with a grain of salt.

Don't you just bristle when someone tells you what you "have to" do?

Maybe that's because we hear it so much.

Parents...teachers...bosses...even girlfriends/boyfriends and husbands/wives.

The video below is about a man and his son doing things that they not only weren't told to do, nobody thought they should, would or could!

In fact, this Dad rejected all the "shoulds" and "have to's" in order to confound everyone, and achieve some amazing things.

You see, when his son was born, he and his wife had to make some hard decisions about his future.

Their son had been born with his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, causing damage to the brain.

He would never be able to walk or talk or take care of himself.

Doctors said he should be institutionalized. Dick, his dad, said "no way."

Dad knew his son could have a better, fuller life than anyone expected.

So Rick Hoyt did 3 things that blew away all the barriers to achieving what he wanted for his son and himself.

1. He made a decision. A decision to change his future.

2. He committed to doing whatever it took. Whatever it took to succeed!

3. He took action. Immediately and without hesitation, and he never looked back.

What results did Dick Hoyt achieve? How have things worked out for him and his son?

Take a look at the video here:

Then ask yourself:

What will you decide to do?

What will you commit to?

What action will you take?

Whatever you decide, commit to and act on, we're ready to support you!

See you at All-Star Sports Academy!

And don't forget! You still have time to enroll your baseball/softball players in our Manchester Little League Camp August 11, 12 & 13!