Prime Intensity Training

Key Takeaways

• PIT Athletics Youth Training runs inside Steelyard Sports in King of Prussia. Three classes carry it: Strength & Conditioning Class, Speed & Agility Class and Team Training Class.
• September is not a starting line. The fall season in Upper Merion and Lower Merion is already running, and your athlete is absorbing more volume than anybody is counting.
• In season work is maintenance, not construction.
• We publish no youth age bands, class times or pricing, so call (484) 744-0568.

You are three weeks in. The bag lives in the back of the car, dinner happens in shifts, and a Friday away game has already taken a night you needed.

That is the September I have watched from this floor for years. Parents call me mid month to ask if the volume is safe.

What a fall season actually does to a young athlete

A fall season loads a young body with practice volume, game volume and travel, and almost none of it gets counted. An athlete in Upper Merion or Lower Merion can put three competitive efforts into a week on top of daily practice, and the only adult tracking the total sees them at 8 PM.

What arrives on our floor in October is not injury. It is a kid who lands off a box like a folding chair, whose left side has quietly stopped doing its share. Just accumulation.

The three classes on the youth schedule

PIT Athletics Youth Training runs three named classes. The Strength & Conditioning Class builds the base a season spends. The Speed & Agility Class works change of direction. The Team Training Class trains a whole roster at once rather than one athlete at a time.

Which class your child belongs in during a live season is not something I will decide here. A midfielder in week four does not need what a wrestler needs before a season starts. The site lists no age groups and no class times, and that is deliberate. Call (484) 744-0568 with the sport and the week and I will tell you which group fits.

From a park with tires to the floor at Steelyard Sports

Steelyard Sports puts turf training areas, full-court sports surfaces and a purpose-built strength and conditioning center under one roof, so a speed session and a barbell session happen in the same hour. Your window is forty five minutes between school and practice.

Here is the room on a Tuesday in mid September. The turf side is loud, the strength side is not. You can tell who has already played that week by how they land off the first step up. Nobody mentions it, they just move heavier.

I started this in 2011 in a park with tires and sledgehammers, then a Fellowship House, then a 2,500 square foot garage at a rec center, then the floor we opened at Steelyard Sports in 2026. The equipment got better. The idea did not. The coaches who run that floor now are on our trainers page.

Strength work will not fix everything

Strength work will not fix a technique problem in your child’s sport, and it will not rehabilitate an injury a doctor has told them to rest. It will not undo a week with no rest day, and if your athlete is already playing three sports back to back, another session is not what they need.

PIT Athletics serves best the athlete with a season ahead and an open slot in the week, and worst the one driven somewhere every night whose parents want a gym to make up for a calendar. I have had that talk in the Swedeland Rd parking lot. Cut something first. If you would rather read the field than take my word, the American College of Sports Medicine is the world’s largest sports medicine and exercise science organization.

Frequently Asked Questions About Youth Athletic Training