James Shapiro

James Shapiro Providing personal training & sports performance to the LA-Ventura area. I work hand-in-hand with yo

06/01/2026

May Training Highlights 🎾

05/26/2026

In my opinion, many coaches beginning out in S&C and sports performance should save this 🗃️
➡️ Warm ups, progressions, regressions, factors, considerations, even rationale: I should be charging money for this and the amount of effort this carousel took.
➡️ Will this get you or your athletes somewhere far? Sure. I think “advanced methods” bleed out to a point where there isn’t a significant return and performing more basics with variation (like in vector training) can be more beneficial. Unless you’re chasing a specific part of the speed-force or jump curve, this ultimately can trump most weird drills.

05/22/2026

1. You’re going to demo…everything…a lot…and maybe more then a twice 🫠

2. It’s going to test your patience for skill acquisition. Anyone who’s tried to taught hinging understands 😂

3. You need to take care of your body even more because you need to keep up with them. Careful on your daily & weekly plyo volume.

4. I know more about Roblox than I care to know. Client retention matters.

5. If you don’t know how to act foolish and channel your inner child, you’re gonna have a tough time.

6. You’re more than a coach. You can teach hard life lessons that help them more than a parent or coach can.

7. Make sure you know when they need to be pushed and when to dial it back.

8. Show up no matter what’s happening within your life. They’re young, they won’t understand. It’s not your job to trauma dump or make you feel what’s going on with you.

05/21/2026

There’s a criteria of requirements that I work with when working with low training age, juniors (8-12 years old), and establishing a base that will last them years:
✅ Bilateral plyometrics
✅ Reactive jumps (depth jumps or successive jumps increasing in height)
✅ Coordination, synchronization, and stabilization through primary lifts
✅ Isometrics: incorporating bilateral short head, pelvic, & low back endurance and hip flexion/extension
✅ Controlled core training that integrates upper body function (upward rotation and shoulder flexion)
➡️ You need to earn the right to move fast by first perfecting movements slowly. There’s too much out on IG that shows flashy fast movements and it distorts the reality of what training looks like at a low training age.

It’s a rare occurrence (for now 👀) that I get finalists for a junior tournament playing off against each other. 🎾 Ciaran...
05/20/2025

It’s a rare occurrence (for now 👀) that I get finalists for a junior tournament playing off against each other.
🎾 Ciaran Tober-Bridges and played a great final for the Northridge L5 U14 division 👏
➡️ It’s also rare to find time in my schedule to make it to a lot of these tournaments, but when I do, it gives me a lot of information in regards to their current programming, quality of movement, and witness their ability to use the tools we’ve used in training.

“Just let them know we have a finite amount of time on this planet and you can be viciously mediocre or you can get the ...
05/20/2024

“Just let them know we have a finite amount of time on this planet and you can be viciously mediocre or you can get the f**k after it,” - Jeremy Piven
3/3 ✅


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