Training A High School Athletes Core   By Wil Fleming   Not very long ago AR Bloomington was fortunate to get IYCA Board of Experts Member, Mike Robertson, to do an in-service for our entire team and he really knocked it out of the park.   Mike’s selected topic was “Core Training”, needless [...] read more

    Concussion Prevention For Young Athletes     By Jim Kielbaso   The concussion problem in sports has reached epidemic proportions. The NFL is spending millions on awareness and just instituted new practice rules to reduce the number of blows the players are exposed to during practices. Several high school athletic associations are also [...] read more

    Young Athletes Coaching Style In A Nutshell   By Dave Gleason   The primary coaching style we want to use with our youngest athletes is called outcome based coaching. This style of coaching puts more emphasis on the outcome of the activity or exercise you have asked for from from your athletes.   [...] read more

    Using Weighted Sleds With Young Athletes     By Jim Kielbaso   There are plenty of toys out there designed for speed development, but one of the most effective and easiest to use is a weighted sled. The research on resisted sprinting using these sleds is way behind the actual use of the [...] read more

    Younger Athlete Push Ups Exercise     By Dave Gleason   Teaching the push up to a younger athlete can be arduous and complicated depending on physical maturity, body awareness, current skill and or experience. Let’s face it, in most scenarios the younger athlete has had no instruction, incomplete instruction or instruction with [...] read more

    Strength Training Program For Young Athletes   By Jim Kielbaso   Strength training program design can get very complicated, but it doesn’t have to be. The bottom line is that you need to develop a well-rounded, comprehensive program that encourages hard work and progressive overload of the musculature. If those components are in [...] read more

    Olympic Lifts and Foundatations   By Wil Fleming   Coaches everywhere, and a great percentage of coaches at that, choose to use some type of Olympic lifts in their training of athletes. Typically this Olympic lift is a power clean, starting from the floor. While this is appropriate for plenty of athletes, there [...] read more

    Athletes Options For Olympic Lifts     By Wil Fleming   Coaches everywhere, and a great percentage of coaches at that, choose to use some type of Olympic lift in their training of athletes. Typically this Olympic lift is a power clean, starting from the floor. While this is appropriate for plenty of [...] read more

    Creating a Great Youth Fitness Program   By Wil Fleming   Non-Programming elements of a great youth fitness program   That sure is a mouthful for a title. Maybe the meaning is quite self evident or maybe it is a little more veiled. Either way I think that these elements are essential to [...] read more

    Youth Sport Coaches Want These Habits   By Jim Herrick     Do you want to make the team, get more playing time, or win a championship this season? If you do, stop worrying about ability and start focusing on habit building.   Athletic Revolution coaches around the country work hard to instill [...] read more

    Young Athletes and Resistance Band Stretching   By Dave Schmitz   What age is good to start band stretching?   Is it appropriate to stretch young athlete ages 10 to 13 with Bands?   Are there precautions when stretching young athletes with bands?   As a band expert I have never felt doing [...] read more

    Young Athletes and Plyometric progressions   By Wil Fleming   On the surface plyometrics are all about force production. For young athletes they are a great way to learn to produce force, apply it into the ground and propel their body in a new direction. The overlooked part of plyometrics, that needs to [...] read more

    Youth sports training & (ACL) Injuries   By Jim Herrick   The good news about knee injuries these days, and Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tears in particular, is that medical science has turned what used to be a career-ending injury into something most athletes can recover from in time. The bad news is [...] read more

    Youth Training Program Boosting Tips   By Ryan Ketchum   Every so often you need to give your youth training programs a little boost.  The numbers might be slowly declining, it seems like you cannot generate interest from parents or athletes and you don’t know where to go.   Today I am going to [...] read more

      How to Get Young Athletes to Run Faster By Latif Thomas   If you want to improve athletic performance you have to make your young athletes faster. That’s pretty straight forward.   So let’s break the process down in very clear terms.   For the sake of argument, let us assume that [...] read more

      The Four Stages of Skill Acquisition For Young Athletes     By Latif Thomas   We live in fast paced society full of impatient people who want results right now. This same impatience holds true for uneducated athletes, coaches and parents who want to improve their own speed, their young athletes’ speed [...] read more

    Young Athletes and Resistance Bands At least once a week I am posed the question about how to train my son or daughter using bands and in most cases all I can envision is kids being put through a grueling workout using big bands that literally throw them around like a human sling [...] read more

High School Athletes Programming   By Wil Fleming   Recently I gave some thought to how many questions arise when putting together programming for high school athletes. Questions about general strength training practices, how to prioritize training goals, and what to do for speed and agility are all important, but the most basic of questions [...] read more

Transitioning to Power Cleans for High School Athletes in 4 simple Steps   All of my athletes become very efficient at performing the Olympic lifts from the hang position, and I love that. This comes from a lot of practice but also from a very specific and well refined process for teaching and progressing the [...] 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