You're Worried About Improving His Speed.. He Doesn't Know The Difference Between Carbs & Protein.

Teaching them to focus on the wrong stuff now, feeds their focus on the wrong stuff when it really matters.

“You’re worried about his velo & 40 time.

Yet your kid is ‘too busy’ to train the right way & doesn’t know the difference between protein & carbs.

And you think buying extra lessons from an ‘elite’ organization (not elite enough to coach them up in practice) is the answer?

Oof.”

-Ray Zingler on X

So let me get this straight..

You’re worried about seeing your kid improve his maximal expressions, while at the same time, encouraging him with words, actions, and money to scoff at and skimp over the very fundamentals REQUIRED to improve said outputs?

That’s fckin’ weird.

You’re worried about getting him the right bat, yet his diet consists of dino nuggets, doritos, and lashing out at you when he doesn’t get his way?

Interesting.

And you believe, like seriously believe in your heart that the “answer” to his problems is MORE of what he’s already doing too much of (at the expense of further neglecting more of what he needs), that clearly isn’t yielding the adaptions you’re looking for?

That’s literally the definition of insanity.

We are sitting here with a generation of kids being raised to believe the answer is found in comfort and novelty.

They think “getting their way” or “changing environments so that they can get their way” is the way the world works.

And that’s not how the world works.

That’s how you get smashed into oblivion by people who understand how the world actually works.

And that is what’s happening to our kids more and more every day as they enter the real world that is completely counter to bubble wrapped fantasy land they were raised in.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize we are paying attention to and focusing on the wrong shit.

Just look outside.

And look at how unprepared our kids are for the real world.

Hell, look at how unprepared they are for the world in which their own parents subject them to.

Alarming injury rates, burn out, and mental turmoil? Over fcking youth sports?

And we’re just going to sit here and call it bad luck or “the way things are these days”?

You can sit on your hands voting for and feeding the very flame that is contributing to the destruction of our kids experiences if you want, but I sure as hell won’t.

The game they are playing now isn’t the real game.

And if they are being taught to play this game wrong (they are) how can you expect them to fare well in the game that matters?