How I would: Start a TRAINING Facility

Conner Reynolds

Having had worked out of 7 facilities and talked with others who can triple that number it, this is how I would start a training facility if I was to open one. My main focus for this TRAINING facility would be for building something with the focus on culture, and the clients themselves. Parent’s will spend what ever they can money wise if they are proven with results and the player WANTS more. It is easy to point out the things player’s need when training as a coach, we can tell the parents what to look for and why it’s bad. The ticket is the player. Show the player why they NEED it, then they will WANT it. To show a player what they NEED you need the ability to make them fail. If a player fails and is not able to learn HOW (not what, they know what to do just not how to do it) to succeed they will quit or go somewhere else.

1.Get 2/3 70ft by 12/15ft wide cages w/ space for lifting equipment.

2.Offer cage rentals & lifting

3.Offer memberships for both. For 1 hour every day open facility to members first

4.Get infield guy, hitting guy, pitching guy, catching guy, lifting/speed guy (they can double/triple up)

5.Run weekly classes 1hr long

6.Offer lessons in between classes

7.Every 4 weeks run a camp all weekend

Infield/hitting-> pitching/lifting&speed->catching/hitting->EVERYTHING WEEKEND

8.Offer practice instruction for travel teams/HS teams/youth teams

If you want to accelerate the process

Start a 12u team to play 12u then 13u

Once you hit 14u make 2 teams take the best from that team and make an A and B team. A team does little bit more out of state travel while B team does little but more development.play next year have 15u outta state/16u in state for team B and 16u all around for A team. At 16 take best from A and combine from tryouts to make an “varsity team” then take the lower A and higher B plus tryouts make “AAA”  if enough players from bottom of b and tryouts make a AA. AA team plays in 16u instate and trains like crazy. AAA team plays 16u outta state 18u in state. Varsity team plays 17u outta state 18u in state.