Youth Athletic Development · Chino, CA
Youth and high school athlete training in Chino, built around your athlete's age, sport, and competitive season — not a rotating staff, not a group workout everyone does the same way. Capped at 16 athletes.
5420 Philadelphia St, Suite A · Chino, CA 91710 (909) 660-3153 Text us Email us
Who's on the floor
The coach your athlete meets on day one is the coach they get every session.
Carl Bradford grew up in Norco and played linebacker at Arizona State, where he put up 43 tackles for loss and 21 sacks in 39 games. The Green Bay Packers drafted him in the fourth round in 2014. Four seasons in the NFL, twenty-plus years in the game — and he runs every session at this gym personally.
That matters more than it sounds. Most training facilities sell you the founder and hand you an intern. Here there is no rotating staff and no assistant running your athlete's hour. One coach, capped groups, and programming that changes when your season does.
Three programs, built by grade
The class stays consistent. What changes is the training: the athlete's age, their sport, their competitive season, and what their body needs right now.
Most kids this age are playing sports before anyone has taught them how to move.
One hour on the fundamentals every sport is built on: sprint mechanics, changing direction, balance, coordination, body control, and landing safely. Every athlete in this group runs the same session.
The rule at this ageNo sport-specific work, no heavy loading, no early specialization. The goal is a broad athletic base — and a kid who leaves feeling more capable than when they walked in.
Middle school is where athletes either build a foundation or build habits they’ll spend high school undoing.
Teaching correct movement under load, before anyone worries about how much load. Athletes work through the same session as a group, with volume and intensity scaled to the individual.
The rule at this ageCapped at three sessions a week, on purpose. Most 6th to 8th graders are already practicing three to five days for a school or club team. A fourth structured session isn’t development — it’s accumulation, and it’s how young athletes end up with overuse injuries that follow them into high school.
An in-season football player should not train like an off-season basketball player. Most gyms say that. Elite is built around it.
High school athletes from every sport train in the same 75-minute block. What changes between them is exercise selection, volume, intensity and conditioning — driven by whether they’re in-season, preseason or off-season.
The rule at this ageTraining days are assigned around when you compete. When your season changes, your days and your programming change with it — to complement what your school and club coaches are doing, not to pile a second team workout on top of it.
The method
That isn't a scheduling convenience. It's the program. We're here to complement what your school and club coaches are already doing — not to pile a second team workout on top of it.
Train with a Purpose.
Trains Monday and Saturday on a maintenance and recovery emphasis, built to keep them fresh through their game week.
Tuesday and Thursday — the heavy days. This is where strength, speed, and power actually get built.
Volume comes down, intensity and sport-specific conditioning come up as competition approaches.
Beyond the group hour
Most athletes belong in a group — it's better training and better value. These exist for the cases where that isn't the right answer.
One-on-one or two-on-one with Carl. For a specific problem the group hour can't solve — a position, a weakness, a camp date, or a return from injury. Linebacker work taught by someone who played it in the Pac-12 and the NFL, plus D-line technique from the other side of the same front. Packages of 4, 8 or 12 bring it down to $55 an hour.
Strength, speed and conditioning for a whole roster — at your field or ours, built around your competition calendar. High school programs, club and travel organizations across the Inland Empire.
Expanded learning and after-school athletic development, delivered on your campus — fourteen sessions completed at Mission Elementary in Ontario-Montclair School District last spring. Coordinators and principals: we'll run a full session at your site at no cost.
Daytime · Homeschool & charter families
A real PE and athletic development program for homeschool and charter families across the Inland Empire, built on SHAPE America movement-skills standards. Grades K–8. Tuesdays from $99 a month, Tuesdays and Thursdays $159. Charter purchase orders accepted.
What parents say
“Corrected my body mechanics, got faster and stronger in 8 sessions.”
“Highly recommend his programs.”
“Carl will make your son better no matter the skill level you come to him with.”
Also from Bradford
What gets figured out on this floor doesn't stay on it. All three came from coaching real athletes here.
A ten-week baseball program for ages 7–10 that you run yourself, in a backyard or a park. Written for his own son, and built on the opposite premise to most youth baseball training: develop the athlete underneath the ballplayer first.
The year-round conjugate training platform behind everything in this gym. Pick a sport and a full periodized year is already there — off, pre and in-season, progressing itself week to week.
Coach-verified combine results for youth football and girls flag. Athletes earn a verified card — 40, vertical, pro agility, broad — with a composite score and a real rank by state and position. Earn every rep.
One free session, no commitment. We'll assess your athlete, talk through their sport and their season, and tell you honestly which program fits — including if that's none of them.
