It’s 7:30 a.m. on a Friday, and Ryan and John Leonard are in the same place they always are on that day, at that time, from late spring to late summer: doing their weekly speed and explosiveness workout in a gym in Springfield, Mass.

Lined up in front of them is the morning’s circuit: a belt squat, into an earthquake bar movement, into a box jump.

Ryan has just messed it up for a third time.

“Hey, do you understand?” his strength coach Christian Ferrara asks him each time.

“Yes coach, yes coach, yes coach,” he answers.

When he gets it wrong a fourth time, Ferrara blows a fuse.

“Listen, if you don’t want to do this just grab your stuff and go home! Maybe you’re not ready for this! Everybody talks so highly about you but in reality, to me you just look like you’re a lazy punk kid!” he shouts at him.

That was three years ago. See where Ryan is now.

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