04/02/2026
There's a formula youth baseball programs aren't telling you about.
Power = strength × speed. You cannot develop one without the other.
But the club sports model keeps asking young athletes to perform at the highest level — without ever building the foundation that makes that performance sustainable.
Our Director of Athletic Training, Dennis Dolan, has worked with hundreds of high school athletes who went on to play at the collegiate and professional level. Every one of them eventually said the same thing: the foundation made the difference.
In Part 2 of our youth athlete development series, Dennis breaks down exactly what that foundation looks like — the eight primal movement patterns, how progressive load development works in an adolescent body, why the transition through puberty is the most important developmental window an athlete gets, and what happens when you skip it chasing velocity.
He also takes a direct look at what the club sports business model is actually selling parents — and what you can do differently starting now.
Read Part 2 at the link below. And if you missed Part 1 from Tim Cummings, that link is in the comments.
https://www.restorethrive.com/post/youth-athlete-development-foundation-strength-conditioning
