All right, team, welcome back to the Strong Life podcast. This is Zach Evanish. This episode's

going to be a little bit different. I am copying the New Jersey high school strength coach

podcast that I do with my buddy, Paul Colodi. Together, we are the state directors for the

NHS SCA. That's the National High School Strength Coaches Association, where we educate and power and equip anybody

running a high school weight room. So our goal is to educate all coaches, parents,

administration, anybody who has a connection to the high school weight room and athletics.

So what happened recently in New Jersey, and it's happened before, is a football coach was fired.

And basically, he just finished the football season.

They went 4-4-1.

He's at a small group 1 school.

So I think 30-something players on the team, 35 players on the team.

And he had an off-season strength training program.

He was bringing in a strength and conditioning coach.

He was doing right by the kids.

And from what we see from the article on NJ.com, there as of now been no comments from

the administration, but he was fired because parents complained that he had set up an off-season strength training program.

And they said, listen, you should probably take those ideals and that kind of work ethic to a group four school or a private school.

Don't do it here.

And so Paul and I discuss this. We discuss

kind of two sides to the coin, how we feel as parents of athletes, what we feel they know

how to do. And then, of course, our expertise in strength and conditioning. Paul has coached

at the college level, minor league baseball. He's a head strength coach at a very large

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