Thursday Night Lights: Joe Burbach on Athletic Ability Being Trainable

(0:00) We’re back in Gretna on the OrthoNebraska halftime show. It’s homecoming and it always feels like home when we talk to the people at OrthoNebraska.
(0:09) This is Joe Burbach. He is a performance coach and we’re going to talk about athletic ability of kids. And people think it’s genetic, but it actually can be trained.
(0:18) It can be. Some people are genetically gifted and that is inevitable. But there’s aspects of athletic ability that we can train like strength, speed, power, explosiveness, all those things can be trained if in a proper facility.
(0:33) And how does that get athletes stronger, faster, and all those?
(0:37) Yeah. So, we’re focusing on the skills that build strength over time, and that that takes time. And when we do those things, we’re eliciting more force through the ground. We can push off stronger. We can jump higher. We can land safer and change direction quicker. And those things are important when looking at how to be a competitive athlete.
(0:55) Well, you have a lot of parents out there. What should they look for in a performance coach?
(1:01) Yeah. In a coach in a facility, you want to find someone that’s going to keep your kid engaged, right? No one wants to spend money for their kid to go be bored, right? Or not get anything out of it. So, you want them to be engaged. You want them to be fun. You want it to be safe, but then you want them to be pushed. And you want them to come home hard, like sweaty from a hard workout and like feeling like they got something out of it. And that that’s not going to be everywhere.
(1:23) It isn’t. Hey, we thank you very much for all of the time. That is Joe Burbach, the performance and athletic uh coach at OrthoNebraska. We are back to Gretna right after this on the Class B matchup. Greta and Elkhorn. We’re back right after this.