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The main areas to focus on when training Youth Athletes is to teach proper movement patterns, keep training sessions safe and fun while helping them progress as athletes. The details matter! That’s why bodyweight exercises and learning proper movement skills are so important for long-term development. This is also a major piece in the formula […]

Adele Kemp of Greenville is heading to Northwood in the fall to play basketball. She knows better than most, even with all her success, that she needs to constantly improve in order to compete and dominate at the next level – even after her incredible high school career! That’s why she’s making the time to […]

Reese Nething of Caledonia earned Athlete of the Month! Reese is an 8th-grade soccer player and she has been training at PowerStrength for almost a full year now. Since the winter, she progressed to training in our high school sessions and trains 2x per week. She even trains in the midst of soccer season. ⚽️ […]

FaR Out Volleyball Club 16 Black squad took first place playing against other top area teams…in the 18s Division! These girls have been training at PSTS with Coach Skyler at least 2 sessions per week for the last 4-months and they get better every week! Even during a busy club 🏐 season, they MAKE it happen and it’s […]

Cadence of Kenowa Hills is a middle school athlete, but has accomplished a lot the last couple years. Her and her team routinely win high-level AAU 🏀 basketball tournaments on the weekends. Cadence has captured multiple MVP awards at tournaments and camps. Most recently, she was offered a college scholarship! Cadence is in 8th grade, […]

An integral part of our athlete training is performance testing. New athletes are tested in relative strength, speed, power, and body composition when they begin, and all of our athletes are tested before the start of each sports season to track results. When we say performance testing we are not referring to common “1-rep max” […]

We see the same pattern every year as soon as high school volleyball nears the end of the season.  Volleyball girls seek out training with the goal of increasing their vertical as quickly as possible before club tryouts. (picture – Parker K. is a Division 1 volleyball commit. She has trained consistently at PowerStrength for the […]

This is the first basketball pre-season Coach Ken George has had available in 25 years. The previous 24 he was preparing the Forest Hills Central varsity boys team for the season. During that same time period was when Coach Jason Martin launched the Grand Rapids Storm AAU Basketball Organization. 50 combined years later, and thousands […]

We have had the opportunity to train Cornerstone University’s volleyball team for the last 7 off-seasons. The team trains with us 3 days a week throughout the winter and spring, and many of the local girls train with us over their summer off-season.   The seniors this year have an obscene career win-loss record of […]

“He never would listen to me, but you got him to listen and now he takes his nutrition seriously! He actually prepares his own meals and protein shakes!” – PSTS Parent   How do you know if an athlete is actually improving towards their goals? There are a number of ways for performance: -lift more […]