FOCUSED is the word. For us, we have seen what year around sports has taken away from the individual athlete, less time in the weight room. It went baseball, soccer, lacrosse then it came to football, 7 on 7, weekdays, weekends. These coaches tell the athletes that all these scouts will be there & aren't, it's become a money grab, colleges don't select athletes from this but from their football coaches, height, wt., lifts, stats, times, records, game film & of course GPA. 7 on 7 was ounce played with their teams against other local schools where it should be, as a team. After the season is over, the next 90-120 days their focus is in the weight room adding as much strength, size & power with hypertrophy & strength training lifts. Performance training, speed development, keeping in touch with skills, working with a position coach. They then transition to more conditioning & maintenance for injury prevention. If your athlete has fallen into this mental trap thinking the only way they will get noticed is 7 on 7, bring them back to reality, the work is in the weight room. Adding strength, size & power to the body is like watching grass grow, it's a slow timely process that takes a commitment of hours & hours a week to make a difference. I personally know this from experience. An athlete can expect to add 8-12 pounds a year of quality muscle. Get them educated on nutrition as well, another area we see the athlete's mis, most are not taking in enough calories. Both of these components of athletic development are "The missing spoke in the wheel". Get focused.

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