We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Adam Snyder. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Adam below.

Hi Adam, thanks for joining us today. How did you come up with the idea for your business?

After I retired from playing Offensive Line in the NFL for 10 years, I found myself needing to find something to get the competitiveness back into my life. I coached High School football at Perry High School with a great staff of coaches who taught me a lot and a great group of young men who were really listening to the fundamentals and techniques I was bringing into the meeting room and onto the football field. I coached there for 3 1/2 years and as my own kids grew older I couldn’t commit the time that was needed to be a high school coach the way I wanted to. I was asked to help develop one of my fellow coaches sons, who happened to be a great friend of mine and now assistant Head Coach at VYDL Mike Rohme’s son, Brayden Rohme, before he went to play football at CAL Berkeley. One young man turned into 12-15 at a park and Mike and I looked at each other and both knew we had something special in the skill development area of offensive line. No one was really doing Offensive Line Specific training in the east valley. We ended up purchasing a warehouse and turning it into the premier facility for Offensive Line specific training.

Adam, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Our name VYDL is a play off the word “Vi-tal”
“Absolutely necessary or
important; essential;Full of Energy; lively”.
The very definition is what an Offensive Lineman is to their team.
At VYDL performance, we believe that SUCCESS occurs when opportunity meets hard work. Building a foundation based on technique and fundamentals that will give you the “Why” and not just the “How.” Through knowledge and experience of the owner, Adam Snyder, student- athletes will be given the tools to perform at the highest level on a consistent basis. Our Offensive Linemen have a certain MENTALITY and PERSEVERANCE. At VYDL, we WORK HARD and STAY HUMBLE.

Where do you think you get most of your clients from?

Social media can be a huge asset. In the athletics world the recruiting process for high school athletes is now almost exclusively done through DM’s on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. We use social media to promote the business and show what we’re about. But the best source of new clients for us has been word of mouth from current clients that see what the program has done for their son or the athlete telling his friends.

Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?

My wife and I met he and his wife at a party and he was singing karaoke and the song was Peter Gabriel “In your eyes” and I knew right we were gonna be friends. That may be one of the greatest songs ever!

My assistant head coach Mike Rohme played football at UCLA in the mid 90’s. We have been family friends for a while but what sparked the idea for the business was his son getting a full ride scholarship to CAL. Mike and I coached together at Perry so we “speak the same language” in terms of describing technique and coaching style.

Contact Info:

• Website: Vydlperformance.com
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• Twitter: Vydlperformance