A tight community of brothers.
After 2020, schools were seeing an increase in distrust from families, increase in behaviors and discipline, and a decline in attendance and overall community partnership. These all combined, unsurprisingly, to a decrease in student scores across the board.
Every junior high dude wants to be “tough.” Matt Glynn taps into that internal drive to steer kids on a better path. With his experience mentoring boys throughout the years, he has developed The Training Grounds as a curriculum and resource for others looking to make in impact their sons and male students.
As a CrossFit coach for 5 years, a personal trainer, and basketball coach prior to that, Matt has always had a love for fitness. No matter what level of fitness/activity you are at, you can always challenge yourself to do better, get stronger. We are supported by community donors and provide food and drink for each member every meeting along with transportation when it is needed.
Matt wants to not only empower his students but also other schools to use his proven method of eduction, mentorship, and physical fitness to transform the lives of boys who need a strong male figure to stand beside. Interested in becoming a Training Ground? Get started today.
Kids, and boys especially, need a strong male figure to look up to. The Training Grounds uses a network of mentors to walk beside the students as they work on personal growth.
Some of our favorite mentors are young men who have gone through our program and turned things around for themselves. They know that this works, and they can help other achieve their goals. This pipeline of student to mentor creates even more opportunities as the program grows to offer scholarships.
But, targets are needed also. Targets are men the boys can look up to who look like them, talk like them, come from similar backgrounds as them. Think of your community. What men would young guys think, "I could be like him one day."
We like to bring in one target a month to give kids a diverse look at men in their community, but also to give them a healthy sense of who they can look up to. The targets goal is to speak wisdom and truth into these young lives to inspire greatness.
