A Return to Assessments
After a couple of years away, I am back to share my thoughts.
I started this blog to share my ideas about strength training and how I could help my son learn how to train and develop as a baseball player. My son is now a high school athlete, a member of his school’s volleyball team, and is now entering the final stretch before high school baseball tryouts next month. I returned to focusing on his training and some recent conversations have led me right back to where I started a couple of years ago—assessments.
As I’ve learned over the years the value of strength training comes through adaptation, or “gains” as they are often referred to. When it comes to training around sports, strength coaches are looking to see how work in the gym impacts performance on the field, court, or arena. Sometimes that can be hard to recognize and that is where assessment testing comes into play.
With assessments you set a baseline of performance using a standardized approach so you can repeat the activity and measure actual progress. When it comes to parents and youth in sports, parents want to see progress—is all the money and time they are putting in to help their child get stronger paying off?
There is an opportunity here to do things better and I am back to explore these ideas with you.
I am looking for local clients to help with their training so please reach out if you are interested in me working with helping your team establish good strength training habits.
If you haven’t seen it yet, here is a link back to the post I wrote about my experience running an assessment test with our team. (I still have that notebook and it’s right here next to me!)
