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TEXARKANA, TX (KTAL/KMSS) – A former Texas High football star, a Division I wide receiver, a coach at many levels, and now a business owner with a training facility, Quan Hampton is using his experience to make his community stronger and healthier.
Hampton has worked under the Hampfeets brand for his personal training for a while but he recently opened Hampfeets training facility, where he works with all ages to improve their athletic ability.
“90% of [athletes] don’t really understand how their body moves. What I do is I bring them in here and assess them pretty much. I let them move around a little bit and then I go back and help them with the basic fundamental skills to run and jump, the simple things they do as a kid they don’t realize they’re not doing properly,” Hampton said.
The training is not a run until you pass out or lift until you can’t type of workout.
“We do a lot of plyometrics which is a lot of jumping over things, jumping on things,” Hampton said. “We do a lot of resistance work trying to activate a lot of muscles you don’t usually get. A lot of kids all they think is bench press, squat, run. We do a lot of different resistance movements.”
While plyometric training has major benefits to young athletes, it has its pros for everyone of all ages.
“Even with adults you don’t want to go run around outside with your kid and twist your ankle or roll your knee,” Hampton said.
Training plyometrics doesn’t just make you run faster and body stronger, but it can prevent injury. Something that has a personal meaning to Hampton.
“Me having so many surgeries, it put me in a mind space that I wouldn’t want anyone else to be in. Nothing crazy, but I can’t do what I love to do,” Hampton said. “The reasons I got hurt were so simple. If I knew not to get outside of my frame or not to take three steps and I wouldn’t have torn everything in my leg, I wouldn’t have done it.”
The vision for Hampfeets is to grow, adding more resources to help make a stronger and healthier community.
“If I could find a group of people with the same mindset as me and the kids I work with then I think it’ll be a nice rise in what we have going on here,” Hampton said.
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