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Skill Training Is Not Enough

3 Reasons Your Players Are Not Prepared for This Upcoming Season In the basketball community we place a disproportionate amount of time on skill as opposed to physical preparation work. You’re probably spending money on skill work 2,3, or even 4x a week! You’re...

Youth Training: Facts, Fallacies & Rationale

Youth (pre-puberty) strength and conditioning programs have been on the rise, in the U.S., in recent years. There are several benefits for youth athletic development programs, but for many there is an associated stigma. A more common parental concern the industry...

5 Step Process to Dominating Summer Training

Twelve years ago, in 2006 I was gearing up for my first college summer training program.  I was 29 years old and the proud owner of a new gym.  I was ready to conquer the world! Varsity House was just a two-car garage with barely any equipment, and one employee, me. ...

5 Things You NEED in Your Gym Bag!

Here at Varsity House Gym we are constantly working with many baseball and softball players throughout the year. Now that spring training has arrived, here are our top 5 tools every baseball/softball player need in their bags to help with a proper warm up, and...

Why Are You So Slow?

Lately there has been a lot of buzz regarding a study comparing several hundred high school football players 40-yard dash times to their respective college 40 times. The findings were astounding. Most of the athletes in the study, after four years of college football,...