Many high school prospects around New England are looking to add strength gains this offseason, and our most recent podcast guest is an expert in that field.
John O’Neil became a co-owner at Cressey Sports Performance-Massachusetts in the fall of 2022 after serving as the Director of Performance since 2018. John oversees strength and conditioning coaching, program design, and continuing education at CSP-MA.
“I’ll use the example of a high school kid, because that’s the majority of our business right now,” O’Neil said. “A majority of them are undersized in relation to their goals. They are actively growing or have grown a lot in the last year or two. They want to play varsity baseball. Or maybe they want to play in college. We need to set you up to potentially compete against 22-, 23-, and 24-year-olds.
“If you are a small college kid, we need to help make them the size they’ll need to be to compete at the next level. If we have a kid who’s already big and strong and looks the part, maybe that’s a situation where we’re doing more sprint work, more jumping, more plyometrics, more medicine ball work.”
