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Fitness for all ages & levels!
Youth Performance Training ⛹🏼‍♀️🤼🏋🏽‍♂️
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Niko Karavolos, Coach and Owner of @ignite__performance, uses Stryd Speed to better understand how his athletes are responding to training so he can push performance without pushing them toward burnout. Having objective data helps him adjust training loads and recovery based on what each athlete actually needs.

Tap the link in bio to sign up for the Stryd Speed early-access list and learn more.

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Speed is more than the time on the clock. It’s how an athlete gets there.

For Coach Niko Karavolos at @ignite__performance, Stryd Speed provides step-by-step data from every rep and race, helping him see where athletes reach max velocity, how fatigue changes their mechanics, and where their sprint strategy starts to break down.

From in-person sessions to remote coaching, Stryd Speed gives coaches data they can actually coach from.

See what Stryd Speed can bring to your athletes. Tap the link in bio to sign up and learn more.

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It’s never just about the sport.

It’s the journey.
The process.
The challenges you learn to overcome.
The person you become through it all.
The priorities and standards you set.
The character you build.
The memories you make.
The people you meet🤍

And it’s more than medals:

It’s the discipline you build.
The resilience you grow.
The confidence you build.
The self‑trust you learn.
The joy you rediscover.
The purpose you find.
The mental strength you develop.

Sport saved you, you grew with it and it helped you became who you needed to be. To become this disciplined, hard working, commited person that doesn’t need validation in order to continue in life.

It also became a place where you meet incredible people who inspire you, support you and make the whole journey fun and memorable.

It gave you purpose when you needed it most.
It gave you a reason to get up, a reason to fight, a reason to believe again.

It became the place where you rebuilt yourself.
That’s why it’s never “just a sport.”
And some people will never understand why it means so much to you, but you do.

#athlete #sport #mentalhealth #trackandfield #discipline

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Many thanks to Robert from @sentineldronesolutions and my friend @chrisguillenphoto for sending me some pictures from yesterday’s Bevins Endurance Challenge.

There will be more photos coming soon from @th3photographer3 but there are some really good candid shots in this bunch.

Thanks again to everyone who joined us yesterday to support us in this first of hopefully many more fundraising events to help us provide coaching to veterans. There is strength in unity and strength in community…and what happened yesterday was the beginning of something we hope to see grow in the coming months and years in a community of hundreds at first, and then thousands. Much love and gratitude to all of you.

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We are extremely grateful to John “Jack” Erwin of @teamrwb for creating an event on the Illinois calendar for our upcoming Bevins Endurance Challenge on Saturday, July 18, at Timothy Christian High School in Elmhurst, IL.

You still have a month to organize a team and get registered for this fundraising event to help us provide free strength programming for veterans interested in strongman training.

Please go to the event page on www.vsastrong.org or click the link in our bio to sign up or donate.

#veterans #strongman #veteransupport #veteranmentalhealth #stopveteransuicide

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that is something many athletes struggle to understand.

You might not be the fastest or the strongest in the room which is hard to accept, because of course you want to be. You do not want to be average. You want to be the best in the heat, on the team, you want to outlast everyone.

And it is okay to have that as your side motivation. But you know what already makes you not average ? The fact you chose a sport, a lifestyle that already demands from you a lot. The fact that you are willing to do so much to improve, to grow, to change in order to achieve your goals.

Your able to endure:
the failures
the challenges
the pain
the work and intention being it
the pressure
the self-doubt
the discipline
the lonely work
the miss-understanding
the discomfort
the nutrition
the lifestyle
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On the journey of chasing for performance and the best times, do not forget how much you do for yourself and push yourself in order to improve every time. That is why you belong in the room.

Great athletes do not always equal the fastest ones. Instead they are the most coachable, disciplined, the ones who can endure what most avoid. You love the lifestyle and you live it. It is part of who you are.

#sport #athlete #trackandfield #mentality #training

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growth is not fast. It is not linear. And it definitely does not have a time period.

ATHLETES🤍
Your story matter and what you went through matters. Growth does not happen in one day nor in a month. Moreover growth never stops. So make sure you enjoy your athlete lifestyle and the progress you keep making.

Once an athlete, forever one!

A bit about my story:

I started competing in running since I was 10 (2015). It was on and off, something I did because I was good at it, not because I loved it.

Middle school (6-8 grade) plus high school is when I started caring more about food, training, and my body… I tied myself to the athlete lifestyle and I saw sport as a way to be enough. That is also when restricting food came along. I did indeed achieved some PRs, lost weight but at a huge cost of my heath. Then binge eating started.

After high school, I joined @ignite__performance still not fully healed, still stuck in the same cycle, still questioning if this sport was even for me.

I had my lowest moments where I really did not want to continue but what kept me going, despite the fact of proving myself that I am enough, was the love I started to have for it. I realized how much I have already grew from it, how much it gave me and how much I learned.

Now, I still struggle to see my own progress and I am never satisfied because I keep raising the bar. Even when my coach tells me I have improved, I still feel like I could do better. I still feel not enough.

But I hope to one day to help other athletes improve mentally, physically and help them see their worth.

~ Love the challenge, the grind, the lifestyle and become a proof that you can rebuild yourself and still rise. Help others believe in themselves and achieve their goals. ~

#sport #athlete #trackandfield #lifestyle #mentalhealth

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Many thanks to @madgicalz for creating this slick-looking flyer for our Bevins Endurance Challenge fundraising events. These will be our version of a hero workout, like CrossFit’s “Murph” and others. It’s a team-based carry event where you and a partner, or you and a team of four or five participants will take turns carrying a heavy object (or objects) like dumbbells, kettlebells, or a sandbag for two hours and twenty minutes in honor of the 22 veterans we lose to suicide every day.

We have three of these events scheduled for 2026 so far:

July 18 at @tcschools in Elmhurst, IL

October 3 at @winathleticclub in Glenview, IL

November 7 at @empiregymsavannah in Rincon, GA

Please visit the “Events” page on our website for more information, to sign up, or to donate.

#veterans #strongman #veteransupport #veteranmentalhealth #stopveteransuicide

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Are you someone who supports veterans? Do you like to challenge yourself when you train in the gym? If so, please consider joining us on Saturday, July 18, for the first Bevins Endurance Challenge at @tcschools in Elmhurst, IL.

This team-based carry event is a fundraiser for the @veteran_strongman_association to allow us to provide free coaching for veterans in our effort to reduce the veteran suicide rate in the U.S.

You can sign up with a partner or form a team of 4-5 participants to take turns carrying something heavy for 2 hours and 20 minutes. The “something heavy” can be a pair of dumbbells or kettlebells, or a sandbag, for example.

Please click on the link in our bio to learn more, to sign up, or donate to a team.

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Be different. Be courageous. Be crazy. Be misunderstood. Be the one who steps out of your comfort zone in pursuit of greatness.

The only limits that exist are the ones you let live in your head.

When you choose a life as an athlete where you constantly challenge yourself mentally and physically, obstacles are guaranteed.

Judgment. Fear. Hate. Doubt. Negativity. No support. Loneliness. Misunderstanding.

The hate will not stop, even when you succeed. Even when you prove them wrong.
It comes from their lack of effort, their lack of discipline, their lack of belief and seeing you do what they will not.

That is why staying grounded to your vision, goals and priorities will help you ignore the noise and never let the momentum of growth and improvement stop.

Have the mentality of someone who never gives up, fights for what they want, and who knows they are capable of achieving what they work for.

#sport #athlete #trackandfield #runner #training

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20+ school record holders. An Olympian in your corner. And coaching standards you’re not finding anywhere else in Illinois — period.

We specialize in sprints, jumps and hurdles and we take that seriously. This isn’t a rec program. This is where athletes come when they’re ready to actually compete.

Summer training starts June 8th. Come see what the difference looks like.

Link in bio to sign up. #track #sprints #jumps #hurdles #olympics

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