The Biggest Difference Between Your Workout and a Professional Football Player’s Workout
I spent a few years early in my career working on the strength and conditioning staff of an NFL football team. Day in and day out, I would 1-on-1 personally train each player. Hundreds of workouts with hundreds of players. And over the last 19 years of launching Discover Strength, I’ve been asked countless times, “How was training NFL athletes different than training clients at Discover Strength?”
The answer will surprise you.
The biggest difference between NFL players and Discover Strength clients… is that Discover Strength clients train a lot harder that NFL football players.
That’s right. On the average, Discover Strength clients train with more intensity than NFL football players. Don’t get me wrong, the football players trained hard, but not nearly as hard as Discover Strength clients.
This reveals a couple of things.
First, our clients at Discover Strength, on the average, REALLLY train hard. They are focused, they don’t shy away from intensity, and they want to get the most from their workouts.
Second, not all NFL players actually want to strength train. Of course, they are paid to, and in a sense, they have to. But they don’t necessarily want to. Furthermore, many of them have such an incredibly rare genetic predisposition for muscle and strength that many of them don’t really have to work hard to acquire a great physique. To be clear, I think they almost all worked hard in practice and were incredibly intense (and obviously skilled) in game situations. But they didn’t all love strength training, and they didn’t all push themselves very hard.
THAT is the refreshing thing about working with clients at Discover Strength. As a client, you are CHOOSING to come in for a workout. It’s not forced upon you.
And selfishly, as the fitness professional delivering the workout, it is AWALYS more rewarding to work with someone who WANTS to be there.
Note: Again, NFL players DID work hard. Just not as hard as the average DS client.
