Mixing Youth Fitness & Politics doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.   But today, I’m taking a chance and risking a lot. Here’s the thing, I’m fed up, overwhelmed by stupid and entirely annoyed.   But all at the same time, I really don’t know which side of the fence I sit on. [...] read more

  Training Young Athletes Resource I’ll be blunt with a message heading into your weekend:   If Complete Athlete Development is not in your library of educational resources, you are sorely missing out. DVD Collection of Coaching Cues, Training Programs & Exercise Selections Manual with Specifics on Speed, Agility, Coaching, Philosophy of Training Audio CD’s [...] read more

  The IYCA forces you to answer the question with young athletes, “Why”?   … But doesn’t ask you to play Monkey-See-Monkey-Do:     An Organization That TEACHES You What You Need to Know for young athletes… read more

Motor Skill Development & Young Athletes…   The cornerstone of progressive training programs.   Enjoy this information on young athletes and please be sure to leave a comment below: read more

Strength Training & Young Athletes…   What’s right?   What’s wrong?   What you DO NOT know….   Listen and comment, as always: read more

Here are your updates to www.IYCAMembers.com for the week of August 30, 2010     1) AUDIO – HOW PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES ARE AFFECTED BY YOUTH CONDITIONING & TRAINING   Our newest IYCAMembers.com Columnist is the incredible, Sue Falsone.   Sue is the Head Physical Therapist for Athletes Performance, a Speaker on the Perform Better Tour [...] read more

Youth Fitness Rules to follow When I look around the industry, I find myself becoming more and more discontented with the view.  It seems that there is a never-ending litany of new, innovative and advanced techniques in the field of strength and conditioning that are, in essence, just re-fabricated models and methods that have proved [...] read more

Missing Ingredient in Youth Fitness From IYCA Columnist and internationally-acclaimed Coach, Wil Fleming:   “If you truly want your athletes to succeed, the IYCA nutrition certification is an absolute must! The IYCA Nutrition Certification is just one more thing in a long line that the IYCA has produced to help those in the youth fitness [...] read more

Young Athletes & Coordination Series Here is the third and final portion of ‘Young Athletes & Coordination’:   (3) Teenage Athletes Are ‘Too Old’   Now, while there is truth to the matter that many of the sensitive periods for coordination development lay during the preadolescent phase of life, it would be shortsighted to suggest [...] read more

Youth Sports Training Tips   Most professional Trainers, be them Fitness Gurus or Sports Performance Experts, may not ever take the time to realize that much of what we hold true and dear in our pursuits of enhancing both the health and ability of young athletes, also translates to the world of business and life [...] read more

Industry-wide, we complain that certification organizations are out-dated, take all our money and don’t give us anything back of value in return.   Plus, we struggle to earn a living and have one of the highest attrition rates of any profession anywhere in the world.   You are confusing the heck out of me!   [...] read more

Each week, I post a new audio for IYCA Members.   I call them the ‘8-Minute Rapid Fire’.   The amount of information you can get out of someone in just 8-minutes is absolutely amazing… I am stunned at how much experts can reveal in this short amount of time!   I want you to [...] read more

Young Athletes Goals and Dreams Dreams and ambition are great.   But how many times have you established a goal for yourself and not completed it?   I’ll bet that number totals into the dozens.   You start the process, get ultra-excited, amped-up beyond belief…   … And then…   Nothing.   You kind of [...] read more

Youth Sports   For years, I have had to put up with youth sport coaches and parents echoing the words and mimicking the behaviors of successful coaches such as Vince Lombardi and Mike Ditka.   True.   You can’t argue with the success those guys had.   But do you really think that yelling at [...] read more

Youth Fitness Specialists 1) How do I explain that my IYCA credentials make me more qualified than other Trainers?   As the market for youth fitness and sports training continues to increase, parents and coaches will continue seeking the services of professionals in our industry.   IYCA Professionals must differentiate themselves for other local competitors [...] read more

    Youth Fitness Camps … Dave, the incredbile BJ Gaddour and myself, all teamed up LAST summer to create an unbelievable Youth Fitness & Sport Training Summer Camp system that will be going on sale next week,   An incredible DVD package that showcases how each of us use very different training programs to [...] read more

Youth Coaching Dan Parsons had the greatest impact on my youth Coaching career.   Bar none.   Of all the wonderful Coaches I have had the sincere pleasure of meeting and working with over the years, he, by far and away, is the one that stands out to me.   I was 22.   Young [...] read more

Is it odd that in 2009, I drove to Iowa to spend two days with IYCA Member Aaron Larmore, just so I could see his new facility and offer insight on how it could run most efficiently?   Is it odd that Pat, Nick and myself routinely got on the phone with IYCA Members from [...] read more

  IYCA Summit   I decided to give away two free tickets to the 2010 IYCA Summit   All I need you to do is tell me why you want the free admission.   Just a brief sentence or two that illustrates your passion, speaks to your own altruistic intentions and reveals why the IYCA [...] read more

    Training Young Athletes The IYCA takes Membership very seriously.   :: Exclusive educational videos :: Private audio’s with world-class Fitness Professionals :: Private discussions and opportunities to converse with leading industry authorities     See why Membership to the IYCA is so valuable to more than 1,200 worldwide:   Click here right now [...] read more