Our son started at thirteen barely able to touch his toes. Ffion signed his squat off at bodyweight, then dumbbells, and only this term the barbell. He is quicker off the mark, and he actually looks forward to Tuesdays.
Reviews
What parents tell us.
Six reviews, one for each kind of training, including the four-star one. Collected independently and every one answered.
Reviews are from parents and clubs; we do not publish reviews from under-18s or name young athletes.
Our eleven-year-old was nervous about anything sporty. The games-based sessions won her over in a fortnight. They noticed she was landing on straight knees and fixed it without making her feel singled out.
My daughter is seventeen and sprints for her club. The plan works around her competition calendar, and the half-term testing shows her the progress in black and white. The coaches talk to her club coach every term.
The kids loved the October week and came home shattered. Four stars because the sign-out queue on Friday took twenty minutes. They have since added a second sign-out table, which they told us when they replied.
Owen ran a warm-up programme for our under-14s all season. Fewer pulled hamstrings, better first steps, and our coaches now run the warm-ups themselves on the second night.
An hour that answered every question I had been afraid to ask, from growth spurts to how much training is too much. No sales pitch, and the slides arrived the next morning.
About the four stars
The Friday queue, now two tables.
Sarah was right: signing forty children out to named adults through one table took too long on the last day of the October academy. Every child still signs out to a named adult, because that is the point, but there are now two tables, split by surname, and the queue moves in five minutes.
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Reviews are collected independently after the first half term, and we never pick which appear. Good or not, they stay up, and we answer every one.