Coach Nick runs more youth programs than we can count — year-round teens classes, preseason basketball and football training, ski race prep, mountain bike teams, golf, homeschool academy groups. This conversation is the deep dive behind all of it.
He covers why kids absolutely should be lifting weights, why the parents worried about growth plates are the same ones watching their kid jump off a jungle gym, why specializing in one sport year-round is quietly destroying young athletes, and why the best athletes Bill Parisi has ever trained are farm kids.
There’s also the Chandler story. If you have a young athlete in your life, this one’s required listening.
