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Here to educate and offer services to those wishing to improve their lives via fitness. Enjoy!

This page will cover some educational points of health, fitness, videos & pictures of me and my clients to give you some insight with what I share and try to achieve everyday. This page will also be a means to gain a better understanding of nutrition and give you different ways and ideas to challenge your body to enable you to progress through your own fitness journey. Please never hesitate to ask questions or share ideas of what you would like a greater understanding of, for this page is designed to help you the viewer. Have a wonderful day and remember results come with consistency and the desire to improve yourself one day at a time.

10/29/2026

There’s nothing wrong with travel ball.

Some organizations do an amazing job developing kids. And for many families, it can be one of the best experiences—until it isn’t.

Too often, travel ball starts getting in the way:

* Gone every other weekend, sometimes every weekend
* Practices year-round
* Tension when your kid wants to play another sport

All of that for low-level tournaments that may not provide the exposure you’re hoping for—or the development you expected.

This isn’t an attack on travel ball. It’s a parenting decision that deserves more thought. Even travel ball should have a season—not run year-round.

We’re burning out kids and families over a sport most kids are unlikely to play in college, especially with the way we approach development now.

The answer is better development.

Not just hiring a friend who happens to be a trainer or coach. Actually investing in a program that can elevate your kid’s performance.

Most kids won’t play in college or the pros. But they will become adults.

America’s future deserves to experience meaningful progress—and to learn what good development looks like, along with the discipline and confidence that come with it.

10/28/2026

Spend too much time online and you’ll be convinced plyos are the key to stronger tendons.

That’s not what the science says.

Plyos—sprints and fast-contact jumps—are excellent for improving reactive stiffness and how efficiently the muscle-tendon system transfers force. During explosive movements, tendons act like stiff springs: storing, transmitting, and releasing energy quickly.

That’s why the biggest benefit of plyos for tendon health is improved force transfer and elastic function—not necessarily maximizing tendon strength.

To build stronger, more load-tolerant tendons, you still need high force—but it must be applied long enough to create meaningful stress within the tendon.

That’s where heavy strength training—ideally above 80% of your max—and isometrics come in.

High force.
Slow contractions.
Longer time under tension.

That’s how we flex tendons at The Yard.

10/26/2026

You actually have to get fast and powerful to do fast and powerful things

No amount of technique can increase performance if you lack the underlying tool set

This is why the best train and do skill work

They understand their skill will always be limited by their outputs

10/14/2026

Our athletes are getting better!

Who’s next!?

10/13/2026

If the cage work matched the complaining then we’d have some of the best ball players in the country

Instead we continue to over prioritize defense when we can’t hit

Waste money on camps instead of investing in training

This is not to say those other things can’t be done, but if we are not hitting more than anything else….

Our career will be shorter than longer in this game

10/05/2026

It’s honestly sad how many kids work hard and never get to see the results of that work.

They train…

But never get faster.
Never jump higher or farther.
Never get stronger.
Never earn more playing time.

And eventually, some stop believing the work is worth it at all.

That’s why we share results so much.

Our athletes deserve to SEE their wins.

A faster time.
A higher top speed.
A bigger jump.
A new PR.

They earned those numbers.

But we couldn’t consistently deliver those victories without something behind the workouts:

A program.
A plan.
A way to measure.
A way to get feedback.
A way to know what’s working—and what needs to change.

Because working hard matters.

But working hard with no direction is just effort.

Development starts with clarity.

Know where you are.
Know where you’re going.
Have a plan to get there.

10/05/2026

Everyone waiting for someone to come save them

This ain’t Disney, in real life you need to go get what you want

This includes better development as an athlete

The help you need is not sliding into your DM’s

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2039 Preisker Lane Ste CDEF
Santa Maria, CA
93454

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+14152186252

Website

http://www.squiresfit.com/

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