The honest version
There is no separate football class
Athletes here train in groups organized by grade, not by sport. Your linebacker will be in the same room as a shortstop and a volleyball setter. That is deliberate — an eighth grader needs eighth-grade loading whatever they play, and the athletic base underneath every sport is the same base.
What changes for a football player is the programming inside that group: which movements are selected, how much of the session goes to acceleration versus top speed, how contact preparation is built in, and how all of it shifts when August arrives and practice starts twice a day.
That is a real difference and it is not a common one. Most gyms sell one workout to everybody and describe it as sport-specific. Here the football block genuinely differs from the baseball block, because they were written separately.
The football year
Training that knows what month it is
A football player in January and a football player in September need opposite things. Most training doesn't account for that. This does.
The only stretch of the year with room to build. Heaviest loading, real strength work, sprint mechanics rebuilt from the ground up. This is where next season is actually won, and it is the block most athletes waste.
A dedicated four-week peaking block. Volume comes down, speed and power come up, and conditioning shifts to look like the game rather than like running. The athlete arrives at camp ready instead of arriving at camp to get ready.
Two practices and a game a week is already the training load. In-season work here is short, low-volume and built to hold onto strength and speed without adding fatigue to a body that has none spare.
Football is one of two sports in the system with a hand-authored, coach-verified program rather than an engine-built one — the other is baseball. Those are the two Carl has written and rewritten from his own sessions.
Position matters
A lineman and a corner are not the same athlete
Football programming here splits by role, because the physical demands genuinely diverge once an athlete has a position.
Top-end speed, deceleration and the ability to change direction at full pace without losing ground. More sprinting, more single-leg work, more emphasis on how the athlete stops.
Short-area power out of a stance, hip strength, and the trunk stiffness to hold ground against another human being. Heavier loading, shorter distances, more hand-fighting and leverage work.
The hybrid — has to be big enough to take on a guard and quick enough to run down a back. Trains both ends. This is the position Carl played at Arizona State and in the NFL, and it shows in the detail.
Why it matters here
Chino Valley is a football valley
Four comprehensive high schools sit inside the Chino Valley Unified district — Chino, Don Antonio Lugo, Ayala and Chino Hills — and the youth programs feeding them start at seven years old. The competition for varsity minutes is real, and it starts earlier than most parents expect.
What separates athletes at that level is rarely effort. It is whether the work they did in February was the right work. A kid who spends the off-season doing random conditioning arrives in August fit and slow. A kid who spent it building strength and sprint mechanics arrives fast.
Groups are capped at 16, and Carl coaches every session personally — so the sixteen reps your athlete does get corrected, rather than counted.
Getting started
Which group your football player joins
By grade, not by sport. Full detail and pricing sits on the programs page.
Grades 2–5 · Speed & Movement
No football-specific work at this age and no heavy loading. Sprint mechanics, change of direction, body control. The base everything later is built on.
Grades 6–8 · Performance
Where sport-specific programming begins. Correct movement under load, capped at three sessions a week because these are the fastest growth years and most athletes are already practicing four or five days.
Grade 9–12 · Elite
Full position-specific work, season-aware loading, and the block structure above. This is where the off-season and in-season programming genuinely diverge.
Common questions
Before you call
Can my athlete train during the season?
Yes, and most should — but less than they think. In-season work here is deliberately short and low-volume. Two practices and a Friday game is already a heavy week; the job in season is to hold onto what was built, not to add to the pile.
My son wants to get faster. Is that what this is?
Partly. Speed is mostly a strength and mechanics problem, so the honest answer is that getting faster means squatting properly and learning to apply force into the ground, not running more. That is what the off-season block does.
Is he too young to lift?
Under sixth grade we don't load heavily at all — it's sprint mechanics and body control. From sixth grade we teach the movement before adding weight to it. The risk to young athletes is almost never lifting; it's practice volume nobody is counting.
Do you work with linemen?
Yes. The Big track is built for them specifically — short-area power, hip strength and trunk work rather than the sprint-heavy programming a receiver gets.
What does the first session cost?
Nothing. The first session is free and there's no commitment attached. Call with your athlete's grade and position and we'll put them in the right group this week.
Bring him to a session and watch.
The first one is free. Tell us his grade and his position and we'll put him in the right group — you can stand on the side and see how it's coached before you decide anything.