Nutritional Advantage for Athletes

This is a note that I received from Sal Lombardo, founder of the Orlando Scorpions and owner of The Next Level Baseball Education.

I founded and presently run an organization for amateur baseball players called the Orlando Scorpions. It is made up of primarily young men ages 15-18 who want to play baseball at the next level which is either college or pro. We just celebrated our 15th year in existence and are proud to say that we plan on continuing the tradition for many years to come.

Our website: www.orlandoscorpions.com might give one a better idea of our mission which is to get kids to college and/or pro baseball. We presently have had over 150 kids go to college and about 50 who went pro.

For the last 6 years I have run a training facility, Next Level Baseball Education, where we teach hitting, pitching, etc. to kids from 10 years old to pro players in their 20’s. But most important, we train the players to maximize their potential and to get them to their Peak Performance through the following 4 areas of discipline.

1. Functional Fitness
2. Bio-Mechanical training
3. Mental / Emotional stability
4. Nutrition

For the longest time, I am not proud to tell you, we were extremely diligent about the first three areas but simply told the clients to “go get your nutrition somewhere”! Partly because I personally didn’t think it was my place and the other part of me just didn’t want to “fool” with it. I was wrong! Luckily I discovered, after some research, the company that fit all my criteria for having Nutritional Products in my facility & organization.

1. They Must Work
2. They Must be Safe
3. They MUST be approved by NCAA, MLB, etc
4. They Must taste good

Of course, AdvoCare products did just that and the rest is history.

Once the players from the Scorpions and the clients from the Next Level saw my level of commitment to these good nutritional products they followed suit. They believe in me and know that I would never, ever allow anything in my place or in my organization that would be anything less than outstanding! Because of that, and subsequently, our Orlando Scorpions teams are all in. By that I mean that I have asked each and every one of the players on those teams to respect the fact that this organization is an exclusive user of these world class supplements.

I would never force them to drink our “Kool aid” as it were, but I do expect them to respect our level of commitment to the products. So I asked them to refrain from bringing those “other” drinks with their labels on the bottles to any of our dugouts or playing fields. If they use the “other” products they need to take the label off or put it into another type of water bottle so I do not see the brand name. I took it a step further by having water bottles made up with the Orlando Scorpions logo on one side and the AdvoCare logo on the other stating that we are “Proud to use AvoCare Nutritional Products Exclusively”!

Needless to say it is working for our kids as they see an improvement in their performance. It is working for our facility and our amateur organization and I am in the process of duplicating the efforts with other friends in the baseball world that do the same thing that I do.

Oh, by the way, many of the player’s families signed up for the 20% discount.


Coach Sal Lombardo
President, Next Level Baseball Education, L.L.C. (Indoor Training Facility), www.thenextlevelbaseball.com

Manager, Orlando Scorpions
www.orlandoscorpions.com

Co-Founder and Board Member, Florida Collegiate Summer League (FCSL)
www.floridaleague.com

Associate Scout, Atlanta Braves

AdvoCare Advisor