Weight Room High

Eehhhh, it’s that time of year again, new uniform/helmet reveal season. It doesn’t matter what you wear, you’ll always look good if you’re getting those W’s.

Props to the athletes who never miss a workout, practice, or team function & are also able to handle the responsibilities of having a job. You might not know it now, but you’re learning a set of values that are going make you extremely successful adults. Keep up the great work!

3 questions I get asked the most by college recruiters: 1. How are his grades? 2. What other sports does he play? 3. How does he work in the weight room? It doesn’t take rocket-science to get to the next-level, it does take hard work and commitment though.

Weights, football camp, football practice, 7on7, basketball camp, basketball practice, summer league basketball, baseball practice, baseball camp, baseball games, jobs. We encourage multisport athletes, but all coaches must be on board w/ summer schedules or ur cheating ur kids.

“Coach I got all ball!” Unofficial research indicates that 99.99% of the time this is an untrue statement.

Attention parents, please stop praising your children for the “homerun” they hit tonight. It was a single (if we’re being generous), with 2 throwing errors. Learn the game please, or else you’re praising subpar performance.

Attention fellow coaches: 7 on 7, team camps, etc do not need a coach ‘hype man.’ It’s about reps. It’s about the kids, not us. Play for trophies in November/December.

People often ask, “why do you guys put all of the time in (weights, practices, film, field prep, etc) that you do?” The answer’s simple: have you ever seen the look on someone’s face when they achieve what they 1st though impossible? Multiply that by a team. Then a school. Pride.

Good managers might be the most valuable entity at football practice. A good prepared team of managers will save you 10-30 minutes of dead time every day. Thank your managers.

Summer workouts. The 1st guy to rip his shirt off is the last guy that should be ripping his shirt off. And he’s normally the most loved.

It’s impossible to achieve BIG if you don’t dream BIG.

High school, senior year. Weight room stops to watch my max-squat attempt. I get to parallel and struggle. Push & push. I blow diarrhea out of every direction. Seconds later, I pass out. Wasn’t my best day.https://twitter.com/ptnetherton/status/998796702852308993 …

Locker clean out was another personal success. I snagged 2-pairs of running shoes, a pair of Kobe’s. So when you see the old guy in the weightroom with a pair of Kobe “Purple Stardust’s” you’ll know what up.

Welp, that’s a wrap on the 2017-2018 athletic season. Time for a nice, long, relaxing break — until Tuesday... Weight room will be open for business and Camp Week will commence. Here’s to a great 2018-2019 to all — let’s go change the world, one rep & one set at a time.

30+ years in this game and I’ll never understand the strategy of saving your ace for the championship game and throwing your #2 in the semi. Too many season’s end with your ace holding a clipboard. You gotta win 1 before you can win 2.

Rode my bike into school today, now the entire school is speculating I got a DUI. Apparently recreational exercise is too foreign of a concept for most.

In high school, Small Ball still rules. It’s not ‘in’ at the moment but give me dudes who will grind out ABs, get pitch-counts up, & put the ball in play. We’ll dare you to throw strikes, field groundballs, and throw the ball. Over & over & over. U can have your launch angles.

Junior’s not playing football next season so he can play fall baseball. Junior, if your fall ball schedule and league inhibits you to play football, then your fall league is poor — because it’s missing all of the dudes that are busting their asses on the gridiron.

In a last chance email, Felicia’s mom told me that Felicia walks with her every night and goes to the gym so she shouldn’t have to make up her 22 absences in my class. Sorry mom, but PE is about teamwork, problem-solving, and breaking personal barriers you 1st thought impossible.

Junior’s got ISS today for tardies. So he decided to come in before school to do today’s workout that he’ll miss. Tough to be too mad at the kid.