Sports anxiety is something every child experiences at some point. When the pressure increases, kids get nervous. Think about this! You are playing for your school football team and you have an important competition coming up, and the school emphasises the need to have fun yet still expect success. Some athletes switch into “go” mode and get […]
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Is 10,000 Hours Enough? Many people drive their car every day to and from work. Week upon week, month upon month, year upon year. Many of these people clock up 10,000 hours of driving but they rarely end up excellent drivers. Many of us cook every day, sometimes two or three times a day, yet
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Prior to puberty, young girls are physiologically the same as both where strength and conditioning is concerned. As soon as puberty kicks in however, there are specific implications that coaches and parents of youth female athletes need to be aware of. In this blog you will learn: What changes occur during puberty that warrants considerations
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Kalos, from the Greek word meaning beauty. Thenics from the Greek word meaning strength. Some may scoff at calisthenics as being simple bodyweight training…and building up towards seemingly superhuman feats of athleticism, such as a human flag, handstand push-ups or one arm pull-ups, is simple..but not easy. Yet people often confuse the two. When using
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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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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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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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Why do Young Athletes Need to Future Proofing? Today’s children have swapped time outdoors for time in front of screens & even those participating in sport appear under increasing pressure to be the next big thing. Sadly, drop out rates in sport, whether it is a result of leaving the structured environment of school P.E
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In part 1 (read here ) we defined the trunk, explored the anatomy of the trunk, and used this to help lay out the parameters for optimising our trunk training for the youth athlete. Today’s post will dive into more detail on low load stability trunk training. Following this article you should: Understand how to
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The powers of social media mean every man and their dog has an opinion on how best to train the muscles of the core, or what will be defined in the rest of this post, as the trunk.
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