Meet IMG Academy: High School Performance Factory

[@yellowhammer4747]

The Bottom line is work ethic. You can do the same things these kids do if you are motivated. You do not have to have a fancy weight room either. Get you ass some cinder blocks, water, and some cornbread and butter beans and got to work.

[@yellowhammer4747]

Please excuse all misspelled words for sake of brevity.

[@blakebrunton1259]

Agreed

[@guttadisbreif1209]

Yellow Hammer it helps to have all this equipment but you are still right

[@RubbelisPro]

Having parents with money helps too

[@buckylove6918]

absolutely true. cinder blocks weigh 30 pounds so thats all you need to bench and squat to get jacked. Or just pushups will get you super jacked. And there is no more nutrient dense food than cornbread. And the training and d1 network IMG provides doesnt matter

[@Ryan-oe9zy]

that fucking weight room is bigger than my god damn house

[@alexanderpuig7814]

Ryan A. It's bigger then my school lmao

[@allsummrr]

Y'all are tripping, it's a reason they call it a academy, boarding school for athletes.

[@willblink3866]

Their kids are gonna go to an average D1 school and feeling like the facilities are crappy and old😂😂

[@ElliotTarrant]

Jackson Kemp that's how I felt moving university's this year 😂

[@bobbarker1324]

I played these kids in highschool shit is unfair they are the golden state warriors of highschool football

[@arq7119]

bob barker I heard they got a kid playin that is 21

[@estebancarrera5188]

"Free nutrition all year" yeah umm it's 70k a year

[@loganandrews7850]

Esteban Carrera athletes get scholarships

[@roldenakanlu8737]

Logan Andrews Img doesn’t offer scholarships.

[@harrischoudhary]

Rolden Akanlu they do. Athletes from other schools get in for free to play for IMG.

[@gordymccauley595]

Any decent nutritionist would know Gatorade is pretty much all sugar and does minimal for recovery

[@connorwright8652]

Gordy McCauley it’s mainly a sponsorship and money from Gatorade to have a fuel bar in their facility

[@SimpExterminator]

You cant just make that kind of bold statement about something and not show any evidence to support your claim, otherwise it's just going to be taken as a subjective opinion. Yes, gatorade probably does have a lot of sugar. However, they have a huge research and scientific team that are behind the formulation of their recovery drinks. So it may not be the healthiest drink to have, but with the right balance of carbohydrates and electrolytes, it certainly does rehydrate and replenish fuel stores.

[@TheDutySpot]

@@SimpExterminator as someone with a degree in both health and exercise science and dietary nutrition, who's also in a PhD program for hes, gatorade fuckin blows. There is absolutely no recovery benefit to drinking gatorade. I'm not exactly sure that you understand that electrolytes is a fancy word for sodium. Which you absolutely do not need more of if you eat like a normal human, let alone an athlete. "fuel stores?" what does that mean? calories are a unit of energy. sodium does fuck all for your energy levels. To take this even further, a large gatorade has around 30 carbs. These kids probably need above 300 a day. It's a sponsorship for a sugary, useless drink that does nothing to improve physical performance in ANY capacity.

[@sorenschmid3885]

@@SimpExterminator shut up its genuinely bad for you

[@SimpExterminator]

@@TheDutySpot Well, as someone such as myself who has completed an associative degree in Fitness and Health Promotion, and about to complete an honors degree in Kinesiology and Heath Sciences, I happen to have a fairly legitimate understanding of the scientific literature behind the dietary needs for highly trained athletes. I have also been in the personal training industry for over 5 years and am working towards a future in strength and conditioning in professional sports. I simply chose to use layman's terms with the initial comment to avoid any confusion around here. First of all, I am not an advocate for the use of gatorade for athletes at any level. If we're simply talking about how these athletes should be staying hydrated, all they need is water and they should be perfectly fine. However, these athletes are definitely losing a significant amount of electrolytes, which mind you also includes potassium, through the loss of water via sweat from all that highly intensive training. You cannot replace the loss of sodium and potassium just from drinking water. These athletes are highly trained, and are probably at a very high rate of energy expenditure with hours and hours of training. So for them, trying to maximize their performance at least through ways of water retention (sodium) and aiding in the efficiency of skeletal muscle contraction and neural conduction (potassium), then yes I wouldn't see any harm in drinking gatorade. Again, I'm NOT saying they need gatorade to replenish the loss of energy (for obvious reasons) or even the loss of electrolytes if they're presumably staying hydrated before and during training, and are getting proper nutrition through diet. All I was trying to say is that despite the drink not being of any importance for an athlete, it is still better than nothing. Reading back my initial comment, I will take back the part where I mentioned gatorade having a good balance of carbohydrates, because we all know the drink is saturated with simple sugars and god knows what else. When I said "fuel stores", I was simply referring to the caloric energy one gets through fuel, or food. Yes, I fully understand that these athletes do not need to replenish the loss of glycogen through drinking gatorade, that would be highly unnecessary especially since a post-training meal would be more than enough.

[@randomnigga8745]

"High school"

[@jordanmorgan9986]

I’m pretty sure that if more schools had these programs and facilities players and teams would be just as good as IMG

[@AVanSickle]

I didn't go to IMG, but I've been there because our track and field nationals were held there. Lemme tell you, many if these kids are spoiled and rude. We had to work out in their weight room and I had this guy say to me "You don't need to take up a whole rack, you're not gonna even do that much anyways" implying that I didn't do that much weight or something. I'm literally the strongest female athlete at my school. I squat over 315 for a workout. My max is double my body weight. This guy was struggling with 275 and looked the same weight as me. Get tf outta my face with that nonsense. Just cause they have the nice facilities and awesome nutrition doesn't mean you can train them to have respect or heart.

[@deandredonald4468]

Sicklepop really wow :/

[@rayreeves4681]

Figured as much from watching.

[@ohmyassoff1087]

ill take "things that never happened" for 500

[@DavidsTheBestAt2K12]

Other than the scholarship kids, it's just a bunch of rich kids who aren't that great but their parents can pay for them to go places like this.

[@jackbass6633]

Prolly true for a few of them, but don’t categorize everyone that goes there to be spoiled brats. I’m very good friends with a family who’s son goes there and he is the nicest, kindest, and most humble person I have ever meet. They are also very wealthy

[@_nikolas]

“Go to sleep kids” me, currently watching this video at 4:39am

[@joshknox4643]

Me @ 3:48am rn

[@a_rolland1038]

5:31 am

[@lukephillips4423]

As a high school athlete who has competed at a normal high school for 4 years, I have to say I am disgusted to see schools like this exist, and even more so that they compete against normal public schools. I would love to hear how any school facing this school or another similar school is not hugely disadvantaged from before the competition ever begins.

[@Assassinswag]

Well they played Long beach poly that pretty much a normal high school

[@stillgonnasendit5068]

Luke Phillips you are just mad that people that are more fortunate and athletic than you get this program and you don't

[@loganbrown4586]

um, i go to img academy and yes we are very good at every sport but we dont crush every team. most of our sports other than football have very close and exciting games. they are disadvantaged but not every kid is going to come out and play like an nfl player at 17 years old

[@AC-uc9gg]

They're playing this school near me and they're a normal public school

[@slaughter4666]

Luke Phillips aww that sucks oh wait no one gives a fuck. These kids want to do something with their lives why is that disgusting to you?

[@AATWT11]

IMG's QB plays on a team in my conference now and I picked him off 2 times in 2 games during 7 on 7.

[@AATWT11]

He plays for richwoods.. I play for Pekin. Illinois team.

[@ericvanzytveld9034]

Which QB? IMG's primary QB's are all playing in D-1 programs . . . I looked at varsity rosters for both Richwoods and IMG and didn't find a common name. Who was it?

[@crettywap2981]

ApFitness IMG ain't shit lmao

[@universityoffloridabasebal1726]

Eric Van Zytveld the kid was probably on the second team, IMG has multiple teams for every sport because a lot of no-talent kid’s parents pay for them to go to IMG and they suck and they have to put them somewhere

[@kmweston9228]

The best teams have coaches who invest the best into their players and know what the players need.

[@Tim_Marshall73]

If I went to this school I would be an athletic god 😮

[@deandredonald4468]

spud man fr

[@ryandalton3796]

spud man nigga if you went to this school you'd be rich as hell, it's $73k/year. Also, good luck making the team

[@raymondnogalez5145]

do a preview of bishop gormans facility

[@chughater]

Lucky ass kids my school had a shitty ass weight room

[@bigdawg1586]

Black Mamba but that doesn't mean you can't lift as much

[@dkoda840]

Black Mamba I don't even know if my high school as much omg

[@dariantoledo4121]

It's a rich school I live by bradenton

[@enosbaltazar713]

Bro I'm saying 😂😂

[@nathanielbeha833]

Ugh I would love to play a team like this see we have a small public school and can't recruit players but we have heart and I've been to many school and this is the first football team I've been apart of that beats every team by 30 and not because we're naturally better it's because we put in the work

[@LiveConcertJunkie]

to be honest, they would probably smoke you guys. Heart only takes you so far and these guys have the talent and heart

[@jaydolan5754]

These guys would beat yall by 40, their whole team is 4 or 5 star recruits

[@BeatBoxBattleMe]

Do one on North Gwinnett and Colquitt County from Georgia. Those are normal high schools, who create amazing athletes.

[@goodebening6564]

no country in the world is close to usa when it comes to training faciltys for high school and college athelets. you guys are on a hole new level

[@y0Milan]

the student pays 70 000 a year......

[@newera1975]

ACED / World Of Tanks not the football players.

[@ZEvenEsh]

Looks Beautiful!!!!

[@pay10svarietyshow63]

Zach Even - Esh qq

[@MiamiWill3]

There's a reason most teams in FL won't play them. They're what's wrong with HS football nowadays

[@deandredonald4468]

Will Henson what's wrong?

[@MiamiWill3]

Prey Juice well in my opinion they ruin the purity of HS football in Florida. Super teams are disgusting as far as real glory is concerned and they've exclusively poached small to medium size counties under the promise of exposure and some betterment in education. Both are exaggerated and borderline incorrect. Many players from the school say the education is no different than any other prep school and as for exposure.... if you're a D1 caliber kid and can play, you can be on a 0-10 squad and college coaches will find you. Flat out. Gone are the days where a hometown team is buoyed by a star player. They've successfully taken about 5 D1 kids from our area in the last 3 years. 1 of them was already committed to Minnesota! I work for a team in a county and they offered us 15 thousand to come and play them on a two year contract (which from what I'm given to understand is standard offer to most teams around). Nobody plays them because it's pointless to get destroyed and injured when you have district games to worry about. I feel like the privatization of HS football is unnecessary and bad for the kids. It doesn't enforce the ultimate lessons HS athletics teach as far as lessons outside the game. Suddenly the kids are money and it's wrong. Now sure, prep schools have done this forever BUT this is a whole different level. Not all prep kids are playing college football but they generally receive an above average education. Same can't be said for IMG. There's so much to hs athletics outside of the actual game itself that I feel become tainted when you make HS sports strictly a business.

[@deandredonald4468]

Will Henson I feel you and I feel like little schools get less attention like the one I'm at I rushed for 2000yds on var last year and the best I got is a d3 offer

[@aemisticss8196]

Will Henson but this school is about getting kids ready for the next lvl as he stated.. they aren't thinking about now they are thinking about later and think what they give up they barley have a life they traded a lot for what they have now

[@user-qd4he8jz9t]

There are still teams in flordia that can compete with them.

[@Brandon-gz5en]

I find it very cool when a public school has a top team because they normally don’t get the resources Bishop Gorman,IMG,Mater Dei And etc get.

[@ronaldo2531]

This place is dope went here for Super Y Tournament

[@mroerled]

Can IMG beat a SWAC or Ivy League team in football ?

[@scottwilliam3943]

This is great Academy

[@Andrearinald11]

70.000 $ a year...

[@iramroj9788]

Andrea Rinaldi many are on scholarship

[@klxsyk-3989]

Seeing that many of them will go to the nfl I dont think thats a problem.

[@SOCCERSUCK123]

GiantsFan not many of them are going to the NFL but collage yeah

[@gangstadresta3248]

GiantsFan By far the stupidest comment I've ever read. College football? Yea. NFL? FUCK NO! Maybe a few of them will.

[@klxsyk-3989]

Gangsta Dresta sorry what I mean was compared to other schools, there are alot more people who will play in the league.

[@noahwitt259]

I REALLY REALLY WANNA GO HERE MY JUNIOR YEAR AND SENIOR YEAR. but i live in utah are there sleeping corders like dorms and such please let me know someone thanks.

[@ericvanzytveld9034]

They have dorms. Consider contacting IMG directly. They could probably give you good information.

[@patrickgordon6159]

Can your parents admitted afford 70k a year to send you there

[@cocoabutterqa2233]

It's actually sad how this "school" doesn't even win the state title regularly in Florida alone. I would expect them to win the national title regularly with the amount of money wasted each year

[@ericvanzytveld9034]

IMG cannot compete for any state title. Don't evaluate their quality based on something they can't even earn.

[@cocoabutterqa2233]

Eric Van Zytveld fair point. Anyways, they shouldn't lose. Thats what I was saying

[@aemisticss8196]

CocoaButterQA2 have you seen bishop Gorman ...

[@cocoabutterqa2233]

AE Misticss yea. At least they don't lose any games

[@aemisticss8196]

CocoaButterQA2 1 team is always gonna have to lose though

[@nickchristiano1270]

I went there for a lacrosse showcase the high school is huge

[@denzzy8131]

Yo am i the only one who saw the levetating mat at 1:18 - 1:20

[@P0rQpine]

Put it to slow mo .25 , still not helping

[@chrisr5307]

watching all this stuff about recovery and training right while i'm about to wake up in 7 hours to go to summer practice for 10 straight hours with minimal water breaks and no lunch in 90 degree weather

[@TrainHeroic]

Tough life. Better get off of KZbin and get some sleep.

[@blyat4842]

Sounds about right for an average high school

[@angelmakima]

I thought this was a high school for a second 😂

[@TrainHeroic]

It is!

[@nykia31]

It's a damn feeder lol

[@jle26]

TrainHeroic barely

[@oloFTW]

Angel re

[@carrot0p.]

It is

[@mr.getback184]

What money can do...make one of the best teams in the nation

[@madlad2167]

How do I get into this collage?

[@neilpatel9765]

It's a highschool

[@amoutdoors2225]

Learn how to spell

[@Incognito-sf2ss]

shit had me dead

[@V21-p8v]

Neil Patel I think he's joking

[@stizy24]

Blackman21 gotta be attests a 4star Athlete

[@saugabwoy]

Damn that Gatorade bar is straight out of NBA 2K18

[@yellowhammer4747]

I honestly think if kids understood the work ethic, determination, and sacrifice it takes to play Div. I and especially the NFL, they wouldn't want to do it. College is pretty cut throat. The NFL is more so. You are treated as a product, not a human being. They can be pretty cold blooded in the League. Some coaches will straight up tell a player things like; they will trade them 2-3 years before there prime playing days are up. Or, "Hey son, there is no denying your best WR out of the group. However, we paid all this money for the number one pick who hasn't done shit. So we cant really keep you around. We have to try to develop this overpaid shit bag." It's sad but true. I truly think that if a majority of kids knew how it was, they wouldn't have anything to do with working so hard to "make it".

[@gordymccauley595]

Thats the way the world works as a whole, your spot is never garunteed as and there is always someone right behind you who is alwasys willing to do what you do for less. Everything in this life is driven by results.

[@HurricaneBain]

This the 2k18 workout center

[@ed3790]

It's not on the west side of the the pan handle

[@Foted]

This place epitomizes everything that is wrong with high school sports nowadays

[@nightfury8440]

And that is?

[@tmlfan7785]

Night Fury money buys talent now.

[@yhormthegiant6748]

Who are the 3 heisman winners?

[@sic4425]

yhorm the giant IMG

[@caderoberts3784]

I have 4 power racks and that’s ab it at my school

[@emmanuelbarron89]

Y'all should go and see katy high school

[@ericvanzytveld9034]

Eggroll__4999: because . . .

[@-ciimo]

its been in Texas state finals 4 years in a row. I'm going to Allen with the "$65,000,000 dollar stadium

[@reneemays3458]

What are the weights at 3:16

[@macman113]

pot leaf tattoo at 2:26??

[@crazyeyeproductions]

macman113 I was just looking at that 😂

[@kendaladams3640]

Should call it the "JUICE BAR" instead of Fuel Bar!

[@greshamsmith3923]

"Trained the crap out of our injured guys". Best quote ever. LSU guys be like, "Don't get hurt, they're gonna freaking kill you!"

[@jumintschoe8286]

SWEET!

[@michaelkelso5382]

I can actually live in the weight room.

[@bilal8695]

How old are they ?

[@JacobFFICIAL]

Why the audio so goofy

[@anhtuanho738]

that's why this school is stack

[@freedom4all870]

Music is way too loud

[@Xboxlove1]

fuckin dope. wish i went there

[@NFLYoungBoy223]

Bring this to Chicago

[@haroldgilbert9202]

If you can't afford to move there, you can't afford the tuition.

[@WinnerCircleAthletics]

WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU OUT TO SOUTHER CAL

[@varunghosh2384]

The background sounds bad

[@christianbergman5913]

lit bro

[@aarong5224]

where trevon duval

[@webuser5950]

Whoever markets this place is a genius though

[@vit0ta764]

bruh you need to fix the sound

[@ahucatitlan]

South Florida football is the finest. IMG (Yawn)? IMG put in your schedule Booker T Washington, American Heritage, Miami Central, St Thomas Aquinas, Miami Carol City, South Dade, Miami Northwestern, Columbus, and Miami Norland. Guarantee they won't go undefeated. They will at least lose three with every single one being a true war.

[@imockrartedcomments7672]

Oscar Cardenas they play a national schedule good luck telling the Head Coach to do that

[@caderoberts3784]

This is a damn college

[@sic4425]

Cade Roberts It’s a middle and high school

[@luigilp8380]

12000 square foot weight room 😂😂

[@ericvanzytveld9034]

LuigiLP: 2 of them, one on each side of campus

[@ethanmitchell7820]

Took into song

[@webuser5950]

All that money and fancy equipment and half of those kids look like they would be on a freshman football team

[@steviedodds31]

First thing, let's change that team name...

[@samhyatt8866]

“High school”

[@saapasseblief9464]

Pay to win

[@yellowhammer4747]

Also, IMG Stands for International Marketing Group. They are agents for professional athletes. Yes, like Jerry Maguire. Just another way to corner the market.

[@elijahgreen1050]

The public school I'm at always beats img though

[@andrewmanjarrez6185]

Elijah Green What school do you go fo

[@elijahgreen1050]

Andrew Manjarrez Wellington high

[@ericvanzytveld9034]

Elijah Green: I just looked on MaxPreps back through the last 4 seasons of IMG baseball, football, basketball, and lacrosse. Wellington didn't show up once that I could find. Care to 'clarify' your statement?

[@Anthony-tf7sr]

Eric Van Zytveld he's lying

[@ericvanzytveld9034]

Anthony: Oh yeah, totally. I just wanted to make it plain as day to any passing casual reader too. Elijah has nowhere to go.

[@DylanGarciaaa]

“Free Nutrition all day long” ?!?!?!?!?!? Don’t you have to pay bro?????

[@Louis-qo7tf]

They can buy very good steroid for the student also

[@25Dleo]

70k for a year plus 2-4 k more for equipment and other stuff! no thanks

[@Bobbito3]

hows the academics though?

[@ericvanzytveld9034]

Bobbito3: very good

[@Braselton21]

Half the kids burn out in College :(

[@timothydao6918]

Everyone hating here think about this: these kids are superhuman look at Daniel faalele... these kids don’t belong in ur shitty 1a league with 210 pound linemen let them play on there elite teams idc personally

[@freebands4414]

Still lost to Mater Dei lmao

[@andreappiah9479]

Janky Baby lmfao mater dei is a normal ass school too. They probably dont have all this shit

[@ImperizeIsCract]

Andre Appiah mater dei is also a private school

[@NC-xt7ie]

Spoety Loc don’t hate on them g

[@caderoberts3784]

Like what kind of high school has this shit

[@Srt_Brosas]

Ready to go to war with my patnas any day. Dont matter who we play. Expect a dog fight💯

[@dominice8768]

Rich get richer

[@sethturner9727]

Pus gang

[@Tommy-su9tb]

Good luck with debt lmao

[@banardadams8776]

All this to lose to Mater Dei

[@michaelt2596]

I thought my weight room was nice

[@gorillalmao2860]

this is like a fucking D1 college facility, these guiys are REALLY rich or REALLY poor but got aschollar ship to the school

[@ericvanzytveld9034]

IMG is also a destination for professional athletes in the off-season and some teams during their seasons. In 2016 it was the Oakland Raiders among others. The facilities and staff need to be professional caliber. The high schoolers benefit from that tremendously.

[@ericvanzytveld9034]

Ditto, Lee Li. On top of that IMG is designed to operate like a college, so students have learned how to function at a college as opposed to a high school. Their transition to the daily-life-routine of college is far smoother too. I know I could have benefited from that leaving HS. It took me my freshman year to begin sorting out how to balance all responsibilities without having parents.

[@cookiestoeltiph4656]

This is for rich parents

[@pope400]

How do any of these kinds find themselves? They're on a guided path from elementary school.... smh

[@kylesdraftvideos]

The "fuel bar" is refrigerated sugar water? Lol no thanks.

[@sethzambora5181]

All this and they still lost to mater dei😅😅😅

[@2017NationalChamps]

Mater dei sucks?

[@seldxbmspsan]

This school is like the GSW of high school football. Absolutely no point playing them. I’m disgusted.

[@arana2121]

Only reason u guys r like this is because ur school gets money. Otherwise u guys r no different

[@leobwright]

This is great if your are willing to pay above £60000 a year

[@shakenblake4533]

Leo Wright or if your athletically or academically gifted apply for financial aid majority of these students enroll at IMG on financial aid scholarship this school bloody expensive