Parents and coaches started asking what the athletes had been doing in the off-season, and the athletes started recruiting their friends. That’s what I did in that first year and coaches, parents, and other athletes took notice. Put everything into the kids who are willing to do the work and create monsters that can’t be ignored when they go back to their teams. When this doesn’t happen, however, we’re presented with a great opportunity:
#Get it done sports camp full
As coaches, we would love to have a weight room full of athletes. In the first year, we had only a handful of athletes. The price was too expensive, they already had plans to “work out” on their own, or they already had someone else they were going to work with. Coaching gave me the opportunity to reach out to a pool of athletes and build the camp I wanted to start.Įven though I had a full team I’d been working with for three years already, I still found it difficult getting kids through the door. In 2009 I was offered the chance to coach the team at the high school I graduated from, on the very field where I used to play. As I entered college, I shifted my focus solely to rugby it was the sport I was most passionate about. In high school, I focused on football and rugby. Growing up, I played any sport I could convince my mom to let me play. Our first camp also gave us the ability to launch athlete training programs throughout the school year, which allowed us to expand and offer new opportunities year round.
Offering a specialty program like the Summer Sports Performance Camp allows us to manage the loss of college students. During the summer, however, we can see up to 20 percent of a decrease in membership. We are 10 minutes away from the University of Notre Dame, which is a great thing during the school year.
#Get it done sports camp series
I’ve also been able to utilize and fine tune the components Tex talks about in his series on becoming a Power Coach.Īt CrossFit South Bend, the summers can be a quiet time for us. Implementing Power Athlete concepts on a daily basis allows me to see the connection between different movements, understand their purpose, and identify limiting factors. Interacting with athletes on a daily basis gives me the opportunity develop my coach’s eye, which is an invaluable tool to coaches. Running this camp has allowed me to become a better strength and conditioning coach. As I look back at the challenges, there are couple things that I have learned along the way that I wanted to share with you all. This year I have just started my forth year of running a Summer Sports Camp at CrossFit South Bend.
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