How many times have you started the season with pre season weight work but foound your self not training for the sport you play in, for example I cant tell you how many times i've had players tell me about the work out and find out that they are not lifting or traininig for their sport. Many coaches and trainers just train players with a generic weight routine Benching, curls, squats but coaches need to remeber that each sports is different and should be trained as such. Baseball, football, soccer, Softball what ever it is you have to train for your specific sport and coaches have to adapt with each sport.

Advanced Athletic Performance's amateur program will be going through and over haul in the next few months with regards to training format and travel teams. Changes have already been made to prices and structure. It was a decision that was a no brainer Advanced Athletic Performance felt that it's amatuer division was not living up to the expections that were set by the company. Advanced Athletic Performance will be asking clients to leave the program that are not putting in the work and desire to be the best it is the desire to put the best players around the best and to create an enviroment for our athletes to succeed. Advanced Athletic Performance will again get back to what made this company successfull by ensuring that every detail of a player performance is examined, scrutinized and fixed. It is a pledge that Advanced Athletic Performance makes to its clients that stay and the new clients that come into the program and that is providing the most advanced and complete training and development program at an affordable price.

Operation: Rebirth will not only spread to our amatuer training program but will expand to all travel ball teams players will not only be expected to train but be commited to the team and expected to attend all training and games. The guidelines will be stricter and followed to a letter. The teams will be purged and players will be cut. Advanced Athletic Performance will not go through the same things that we have suffered this year with players quitting and leaving the program without any notification. Leaving their teammates to suffer and costing the team the money.

Many more changes will be coming to the Advanced Athletic Performance.

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Every player has to understand that you have to put in hard work and suffer to get better. now a days players wnat to be catered to and treated like professionals when they have not accomplished anything professionally. Many players are held on such high esteem but we forget that they are just players not gods. And many trainers are afraid to push a player harder and make them better, they just do enough to get paid and boost the players ego. But it is the trainers job to tell them when they need to make changes and improve and not let the player slip into a comfortable place but to push and push even when working with high profile clients.

Professional players can easily fall into a pattern of allowing themselves to do just enough, and that is because the trainers are afraid to push the players hard. And sometimes players are afraid to go hard and push themselves but you have to. Players have to remember the work ethic that got them their and they have to remember that is what will keep them were they are and will help them continue to climb, but only if they keep the work ehtic that got them their and then push harder.

All to often I run into other instructors and coaches and they are giving lessons or we get to talking about training whether it is baseball, soccer or football. And the one thing that keeps coming up is style or method and all to often the instructors try and train players like they used to train and thats fine but instructors need to know when they need to change what has worked for them and to try something new. They need to remember that each player is different and should be treated as such. Once you become and instructor you have start seeing things through the eyes of an instructor. Just because somthing worked for you doesnt mean that it will work for your client. Take for example a hitting instructor I knew he would teach the same training for 20 years he said that it has worked all these years for him and his son so it will work for every one, but the problem was it didnt. Those clients that didnt find success with him found success with me not because my way is perfect but because I treated the player like an individual and I was able to take what worked for him from the first instructor and what from mine and we put it together.

Instructors need to stop being so arrogant (I know I am very arrogant about our training) and adapt and change and realize that their is no perfect method but a perfect way of relaying information. Instructors need to remember that they are teachers now and not players any more and they need to know when their playing expereince is useful and when it is not.  

I was training some of my clients yesterday and i was quit annoyed at what I was seeing from another coach that trains players. He had a ver large group and was working on hitting the only problem was he reall y was not teaching them anything he would stop a few times give some hitting phrases to the player then move on. Then when he got to the last kid I noticed that the kid really needed help but instead the coach made no time to help the player at all instead you could see the frustration start to set in with the coach, after  a few more throws ( he through a total of 15 ptiches) he called practice. No time put in with the player at all no attention. Now I know that sometimes you can not make time for every player but when you are charging players to train with you and to play you sure better make time for each player on the team no matter how long it takes the coaches are the ones who decided to take on that many players and should make time for each each player.

Travel ball coaches and instructors seem to treat each of their clietns as ATM machines they take their money but were is the dedication to detail or the dedication to helping a player get better. To many instructors charge for half hour lessons but really can you get anything done in that time, or they charge for and hour but talk for about 40 minutes. And the older coaches and instructors are still training what worked 30 years ago refusing to update themselves or learn anything new.

If you going to charge and make this a business then you better start treating your clients like individuals and not ATM machines who are only their to pay you because you played minor league baseball. They are paying you because they want help you and you sold them a service.