Athletes By Legacy: A New Home for a Bigger Purpose

FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE — Red racks line a black wall. Green turf runs beside them. Above the lifting stations, the Athletes By Legacy name fills the room. It is a sharp-looking space, but the reason it exists goes back to something less photogenic: what a good coach can do for a young person.

For Marc Lobliner, that influence was personal. In his account of the business’s beginnings, coaches helped give him discipline, accountability and a work ethic. He and Katie Lobliner wanted to pass that on. Athletes By Legacy grew out of that idea—not simply a place to train athletes, but a place to help develop the people wearing the uniforms.

A coaching mission gets a home of its own

The opportunity started with a subleased space. Marc reached out to Bryce Biel, who was operating a facility in Illinois. Bryce moved his family to Tennessee, bringing a coaching career into a new community and helping build the program alongside Marc and Katie.

Today, Athletes By Legacy has a home on Eddy Court in Franklin. Its work centers on youth sports performance: strength, speed, agility and structured development, with team training as part of the program. The new facility gives that work a setting with its own identity.

Biel’s connection to elitefts predates these installation photos. In his writing for elitefts, he has argued for adapting training to the athlete rather than forcing every athlete into a rigid plan. That is an important distinction in a youth facility. The equipment is there to serve the coaching. The coaching is there to serve the athlete.

Built for more than the photo

The room’s red-and-black color scheme carries from the walls into the equipment. Racks sit along the edge of the turf rather than swallowing the whole floor. Plates have storage beside the lifting positions. In another view, kettlebells sit beneath a cable station; a row of benches faces the dumbbells.

Those are the practical details that make a room worth looking at. There is space for lifting and space for movement. There are different tools for different jobs. The turf is not a decorative strip between machines; it is a clear part of the training floor.

A facility serving young athletes needs that range. Coaching strength does not erase the need to coach movement, and adding another piece of equipment is not always the same thing as adding another useful training option. Here, the lifting stations and open floor give the program room to do both.

The people are still the point

When elitefts’ Matt Goodwin shared the project, he credited Bryce, Marc and Katie for what they had built. The equipment photographs show one part of that effort. The larger story is the commitment behind it: relocating a family, building a program and creating a place where young athletes can be coached over time.

That is what makes this more than a new room with a new logo. The space has a purpose before anyone loads a bar. elitefts is proud to be part of the equipment behind it.