Not Every Youth Superstar Is Going To Be A Professional I want to be the next Michael Jordan! Kobe… Brady… Lebron! As strength coaches, we've heard it all before not just from kids who we work with, but from their parents and sport coaches as well. At the very first glimpse of talent at a [...]
Sports Specialization Is Making Youth Less Athletic A new study by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health which included over 1,500 high school athletes found that athletes who specialized in one sport were twice as likely to report a lower extremity injury as compared to those who [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Over coaching, overtraining and over specialization is hurting your kids athletic development, period. And no, it's not your kids fault. The problem is with the parents and the coaches. 2. Athletic development and sport is just another motor learning skill, thus the reason to know and appreciate [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. "Jumper's Knee" is nothing new in the athletic population, but with the recent increases of knee related pain and dysfunction in an otherwise fit and healthy population, we are left with questions about some sports performance plyometric training methods and programs that have gained [...]
I was asked this year point blank at one of my seminars, "What's the secret to preventing non-contact ACL injuries?" and I honestly didn't have a definitive answer. With decades of "research" and prevention programs focusing in on ACL Injuries and Prevention from our industry, we've made no ground in systemizing [...]
