Hey everyone.

Thanks for tuning into Power Athlete Radio.

We are stoked to have Jim Kilbossa back on the show to talk training kids through his years of experience and his organization, the International Youth Conditioning Association.

Jim explains that his motivation

for starting the program was to educate coaches on the delicate balance of working with

8 to 18-year-olds. Coaching kids is a long journey that starts with the best of intentions,

and as Jim explains, the coach themselves is usually the reason a kid sticks with a sport or

quits. Jim provides real tools, not just

lip service, on how to polish your coaching interaction with youth athletes. He also talks about his

experience navigating over zealous parents and what to do when you encounter those fucked up

coaches who enjoy yelling at kids because they see their own failures in them.

Yeah, that's some serious psychological bullshit.

This is episode 220.

Power Athlete Nation, what's up?

This is Luke.

I've got text say, hi, Tex. Hello. No, you're supposed to say hi, Texx. No, no, no, that's a bad joke. No, that's good. And you were listening to the premier podcast in strength and conditioning. Conditioning. Guys, what is up? We got a repeater guest here. We do that sometimes. And we have on the line, Jim Kilbosso out of Wixom, Michigan, right, Jim? That's where our facility is.

That's where the facility is. Now, where are you originally from? I'm actually from Michigan,

but from another city in Michigan, Oklahoma, Michigan, which is right by Michigan State University.

I've lived in Michigan my whole life except for one year, so I am a Michigander.

All right.

Is that the name officially?

I believe it actually is a Michigander, yeah.

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