Let’s imagine you are the crew chief of a race team with a single car to race. This weekend your job is to see to it that your team does as well as possible. If everything goes well, you might even pull ... Continue Reading
Breaking Up With Your Child’s Coach: It’s Not You, It’s Me
Spring sports have just started and many athletes will be returning to their local teams with the same teammates and same coaches. But what happens when your child has outgrown his or her ... Continue Reading
3 Steps to Nip Youth Performance Anxiety in the Bud
Experiencing anxiety before a big sports event is normal, but what happens when this anxiety prohibits optimal sports performance? After a winter hiatus and with spring sports just around the ... Continue Reading
Tips for Helping Teens Balance School and Sport
As adults, we recognize the signs of stress and overscheduling and are able to control some of the competing variables, but what about children and their stressors? As the school bells ring to ... Continue Reading
Contrast Training Benefits Youth Soccer Players
Many athletes and coaches believe that skill work alone will create the best athlete. However, despite a slow change in the opposite direction, some coaches are stuck in their ways and perhaps need more ... Continue Reading
The 3 Most Valuable Lessons a Young Athlete Can Learn From the Olympics
Winter Olympics, Sochi, 2014. Olympic inspirations. Olympic hopes. Olympic dreams. For young athletes, the Olympic Games can represent their future hopes and dreams. The inspirational background stories of ... Continue Reading
Time Efficient Fitness for Young Athletes (Includes 3 Workouts)
It has been my experience that when an individual strength trains using controlled repetitions, utilizes perfect form throughout the entire set and works within their momentary muscular ability (MMA) on ... Continue Reading
8-Week Pre-Competition Training Template for Young Athletes
Since I can remember, strength enthusiasts have in some way, shape, or form utilized the concept of cycling in their training (whether they know it or not). Some use different protocols, repetition ... Continue Reading
The Very Real Dangers of Pushing Kids Too Hard
It was a terrible and unnecessary event that occurred to Arielle Newman, the young track star who died suddenly back in April 2009 from absorbing lethal levels of methyl salicylate. Methyl salicylate is a ... Continue Reading
Teen Athletes: Getting Ready for In-Season Competition
For the student-athletes out there, being prepared for your athletic season is not something you can do a few weeks before the season starts. Getting stronger, improving your level of play, and being in ... Continue Reading
