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Wednesday
Nov072007

Your Own Training Center Paid For by a Professional Sports Team

Hi ,

It seems wherever I have gone in my career, I have been blessed with success.

When I operated training centers and a youth-sport consulting service in Toronto, Canada, I was hired by organizations all over the globe.

When I moved to the United States and became Director of the International Sport Performance Center, my clientele grew rapidly and their results grew even faster.

When I was hired as Director of Athlete Development for the Sports Academy, I was an immediate smash hit with local parents, coaches and athletes - so much so that high school sports teams and programs began vying for my services.

When I launched the International Youth Conditioning Association, it became one of the fastest growing certifications in our industry history - with over 300 members worldwide in our first 12 months of operation.

What accounts for all of this quick and immediate success?

Do I have a 'secret weapon' that if you knew would make you the very best Coach or Trainer in your area?

In fact, I do...
...But it really has nothing to do with me.

The truth of the matter is that before I embarked on all of these internationally successful ventures, I spent a few years just listening.

And yes - that is my secret weapon.

As a young personal trainer and strength coach, I bought every book, DVD and resource you could possibly imagine.

I spent hours upon hours reading, researching, applying, failing and re-learning ideas and concepts.

I made it my mission in life to become the very best Athletic Development Specialist anywhere in the world.

And I like to think that I did exactly that.

But the point of this story is not to explain to you how I got it done for myself; it's to explain how you can do it too.

Right now, I could go virtually anywhere in the world and open a youth-sport training center... and have it operational, successful and packed with clients within 3 months.

In fact, right now, I am actually debating where to open my newest training center...

...With a hospital who is prepared to shell out top dollar in order to get it done...

...Or with a prominent professional sports team who has decided to create youth-training centers nationwide.

In both cases, these organizations came to me - I didn't seek them out.

But the point of the matter is that my early years were spent reading and learning.

That's the 'how' and 'why' such tremendous opportunity comes my way.

If I could go back in time though, I would change one thing.

I would have spent more time reading and researching the information that I know now, is the best.

It's not that reading poor quality information is a bad idea.

Reading and learning anything at all is good - it either teaches you something you didn't know, or reinforces the stuff you already did.

But as a Trainer or Coach, I know how you feel.

There is so much stuff!

And yes... you want to read and learn from it all... but where do you start?

Your time is limited and in order to excel in your career, you want to dive in to something that gives you the most amount of information... but in the littlest amount of time!

That doesn't make you unique.

It's the reality we face in life.

We have gotten busier and busier in our lives and our time has become more and more valuable.

400-page textbooks and 6-series DVD sets are great... they contain a lot of important information and certainly can teach you a lot.

But what if the source of the information isn't actually that good?

Have you ever purchased a product with tremendous hope and excitement in terms of what you think it will bring you, only to be incredibly disappointed once you've gone through it?

I have... many times.

And that's why I say that if I could go back in time, I would spend the bulk of my time reading and researching only the truly quality information in our industry.

Names like Mike Boyle, Vern Gambetta, Gray Cook and Stewart McGill.

These guys deliver.  Period.

Collectively, you are talking about over 100 years of world-class experience and credibility.

That's why I created Youth Training Secrets.

To give you an edge over everyone else.

World-class information ONLY... and delivered in a way that allows you just to sit back and listen.

Soak up all the wealth and gems of information in literally 1/4 the time it would take you to read even one book.

Now that's how you become the best.

You listen to the pros who have been there and done that... talk about accelerating your knowledge!

In CD #2 alone, I asked Al Vermeil (who has been the strength coach for professional sport championship teams in TWO different sports!) about agility training for young athletes.

His answer blew me away!

Even though I have had 12 years of research, application and experience all over the world, he floored ME with his answer!

It was a concept I had never even thought about before... but rest assured will use to my advantage when I open my next training center (on someone else's dime) and become the 'place to be' for young athletes, parents and coaches locally.

The only way to become the best is to learn from the best.

I did it... but I did it the hard way.

And that's why I created something for you to get there much more easily than I did.

Youth Training Secrets

 

'Till next time,

Brian

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