Kettlebell Snatch For Young Athletes   by Jason C Brown read more

    High School Athletes Strength Training     By Wil Fleming Nearly all high school athletes, with very few exceptions, need to develop explosive strength.     The instances in which the skill of explosive strength are used in sports are endless, but when used “explosiveness” is very apparent.   A linemen firing off [...] read more

Strength And Conditioning Coaches Often Overlook Movement By Jim Kielbaso A lot of people in this field call themselves Strength & Conditioning Coaches. I don’t have a problem with the “Strength” part of the title, but the “Conditioning” part could use a little work.   As a former college S & C Coach, I fully [...] read more

  Coaches for high schools and teams need specialists… by Ryan Ketchum   The biggest obstacle that arises with youth fitness and sports performance coaches and business owners seems to be figuring out a way to gain the approval and access to high school or team coaches. Honestly, 99% of you are probably doing it [...] read more

–>     High School Athletes coaching should focus on the five biomotor abilities. By Latif Thomas When my mother attended her first ever Parent-Teacher Conference, she expected Mrs. Candlette to tell her how smart I was. Or how polite I was. Or to hear about some other facet of my considerable six year old [...] read more

    Brain Food for Coaching Young Athletes.   by Phil Hueston, NASM-PES; IYCA-YFS   Your feedback and communication is brain food when it comes to coaching young athletes. To develop correctly and effectively, young athlete’s brains need a steady flow of quality nutrients and stimuli. Neural development and conditioning is a process that never [...] read more

    Foot Strike: The most obvious but most overlooked component of training young athletes.     About eight years ago, one of my high school high jumpers, Danielle, came running down to me at a track meet to tell me the news. As the coach of the long, triple and high jumps I was [...] read more

Summer Youth Training  I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to approach summer training.  You’ve got a number of options, so here’s my take on getting the most out of summer youth training for sprinters (or any athlete in any sport, for that matter):   Consider not training at all.   Summer competitions [...] read more

A Training Program For Young Athletes From Brian Grasso. Here’s a program I did last week with a group of 15 year-old hockey players:   Mobility & Tissue Quality read more

Coaching young athletes: The biggest mistake you’re making…         Is Coaching Young Athletes & Communication More important Than Understanding Sets, Reps & Exercise Selection?   Maybe…   Click Here to Find Out: http://completeathletedevelopment.com/ read more

Young Athletes Need More Than Training A staple of the IYCA Code:   “Teach young athletes… Don’t Train”.   A little scary, perhaps?   Most certainly counterintuitive?   How do you talk to Coaches andYoung Athletes who think that every training session needs to be a ‘throw-up-fest’ of nothing but hard work?   Watch this [...] read more

IYCA Olympic Lift – Instructor Course Can Help Take Your Athletes To The Next Level read more

Training Strategies for Young Athletes With Battle Ropes …   Watch This:       Don’t Forget… Join Us LIVE On Monday July 11 @ 7:30pm (EST)…   read more

Changing perspective can make all the difference in youth training…   Watch this to see what I mean:   read more

  “Children and Sports Training” by Jozef Drabik.   By far, the most important read I’ve ever had.   An incredibly detailed look at developmental youth fitness, critical elements of coordination and pedagogical (Coaching) science.Youth Fitness   You can find this book virtually anywhere online for next to nothing.   Just Google the name and [...] read more

Young Athlete Coaching Tip. I have a secret that I’ll be using with every young athlete I work with this summer…   It’s the difference between being a ‘Good’ Coach and a ‘Great’ one:young athlete read more

Coaching Young Athletes – We learn from the Best…   (2) Coaching Presence   Yet another intuitive intangible that I truly believe cannot be taught… But CAN be improved upon so long as you’re prepared to look in the mirror…   A quality Coach has a presence.    Not because they are dictators or aristocratic [...] read more

Coaching Young Athletes – Teaching Again The funniest thing happened 3 weeks ago…   I decided to go back to the grassroots of where I started coaching young athletes.   Now make no mistake, although my ‘full time’ coaching days are about 7 years in the rearview mirror, I’ve maintained a coaching schedule through the [...] read more

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