One thing about John Broz. While I’m not sure to what extent I agree with his training philosophy/methodology, when he puts himself out there like this I do believe he is being honest and sincere, and I do believe he genuinely cares about his athletes, and I have an awful lot of respect for that.
Of course if this whole thing was a ruse and Rob shows up at nationals this weekend I’m going to look like quite the idiot but somehow I don’t think that’s the case.
[quote]Swolegasm wrote:
[quote]niksamaras wrote:
[quote]Zerpp wrote:
Damn. He was coming back from an injury also right? I wonder what made him quit, after all that time and hard work he put in.[/quote]
Maybe he thought that re-injuring himself was not worth it. I have been there, but thankfully I sacked up. Who knows? And we just know Broz’s side. We should hear Rob’s side too before we make any conclusions.[/quote]
I believe he is a medicine student, so hours of study and twice a day maxing. It all adds up i suppose. [/quote]
I’m pretty sure he was just a pre-med student working on his B.S.
Also, as far as I know, his true passion was football, not weightlifting.
A really tough situation…the coach is frustrated. I’m new to weightlifting but not to sports and I can understand where the coach is coming from but talking all that shit on the internet is not cool. So Rob lost his passion; some of us have been there, it happens. Did you think he wanted to lose it??
Of course not! Now is time to move on. It’s tough but comes with the territory of being a coach at anything that a person isn’t getting paid to do. If the passion isn’t there, then there’s no point in doing it at all. Multiple training sessions per day, several times a week, I’m surprised that more don’t go down this path.
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
I’m pretty sure he was just a pre-med student working on his B.S.
Also, as far as I know, his true passion was football, not weightlifting. [/quote]
Did he drop that for weightlifting or did he manage both concurrently?
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
I’m pretty sure he was just a pre-med student working on his B.S.
Also, as far as I know, his true passion was football, not weightlifting. [/quote]
Did he drop that for weightlifting or did he manage both concurrently?[/quote]
Both. Up to 17 practises total per week.
Wow, that alone coupled with being a student must be quite an undertaking.
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Wow, that alone coupled with being a student must be quite an undertaking.[/quote]
I am about 99% sure that he gave up football previous to coming back this last time and had only been training with Broz. Still, i imagine its a ton of work and its a shame think he had a chance to be really really good.