(Credit RS Lloyd , JL Oliver) The Youth Physical Development Model holds valuable guideline information for any one wishing to embark on providing sound exercise prescription to children. We know that all of the physical attributes above are trainable but certain qualities need to have more emphasis at certain times in a child’s chronological age. […]
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Whilst post-pubertal athletes, or adults, can improve their strength through increased muscle size, pre-pubertal (especially young female) athletes do not have the hormonal building blocks of muscle that adult athletes do. Since pre-pubertal athletes have a limited ability to increase strength by building muscle, they typically improve how much force they can produce in the
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Meet 13 yr old Lillian who’s been involved with our Child to Champ program for a few months now. She represents Truro City at swimming and her medals hanging around her neck came from a recent haul at the SLS Nationals in Bournemouth. Her team sports interests lie with hockey and netball. From
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There’s not one week that goes by when one or more of our youth crew rolls into training with an injury. They vary from very mild niggles to limb breaks. However, regardless of injury (in most cases), we insist and encourage the guys to maintain consistency and commitment by continuing to train. Very often some
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Prior to my arrival, the pupils at the all-girls school I work at had no experience of a structured strength and conditioning program, so these lessons are as much my reflections on my first year leading the strength and conditioning program at Downe House school as they are about doing this in the context of
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When we start working with a new athlete or team we will always look at their current training schedule/loads and look to fill the buckets that need it. More often than not the individual’s in question are getting plenty of sports-specific fitness through competition, training (often small-sided games for field/court sports) then often extra running
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Future-Proofing Youth Athletes-Part 3 Part 1 and Part 2 focused on how to improve youth athlete’s ability to focus on relevant sporting cues, or perceptual-motor skills and the movement response. Today’s post will focus on the why, how, when and what of strength training for youth athletes and the role it has to play in
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Early sports specialisation is something that is fairly common in younger athletes with the thought process that specialising early will equal a better chance of success in the future. Whilst there is some truth in this, especially as athletes get older, it definitely comes with its downsides. The above infographic shows that the more someone
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Future-Proofing Youth Athletes-Part 2 Future-proofing youth athletes part 1 focused on developing perceptual-motor skills, or more specifically, the way young athlete’s brains process relevant sporting cues. Today’s post will focus on the other side of the coin – the movement response. Once your child has developed these perceptual-motor skills you can look to deliver more
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