I have always said that our goal as strength and/or performance coaches should be to make our athletes better. More specifically better on their field of play, it matters little if your football player can bilaterally squat 500lb but can not get off a double team or if your baseball player has the highest rotational bat speed on the team but can not move laterally to cut off a line drive. It is not our job to simply make them sweaty and tired. 

If we know what our job isn’t supposed to be then what should it be? In my opinion, it is to take an individual athlete or group of athletes, determine their strengths and deficits, and design a plan that will address those strengths and deficits. The goal of the plan has to also translate into gains on the field. Our success should be measured on wins and losses, how healthy the team was through out the season, and not how high a bench press max is. 

It is our job to mitigate the load of our athletes that will allow them to perform at their best on the day of competition. That is what we do at JASAT, we are constantly making changes and adjustments to our athlete’s plan to insure that when they return to their coach they are able to perform at their best. If your thought process or your coaches thought process is to make you as tired as possible or as sore as possible then gains will be hard to come by. Making someone tired requires little to no skill, making someone better requires tremendous skill. At JASAT, we have to skill to make you better! 

Speed is a learned skill,

Jaxson