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

    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

Here is some fantastic and practical advice on how to create programs and drills that will make your young athletes quicker and more agile…     Young Athlete Speed & Agility Training Made Easy: Click Here —> http://CompleteAthleteDevelopment.com/   read more

Is there a difference in ‘Injury Prevention’ for soccer versus baseball with young athletes?   How about hockey versus volleyball?   Interesting topic…   Watch this video on Youth Sports Injuries and see what you think:     read more

Do you ever ‘test’ your young athletes?   Their speed?   Strength?   Flexibility?   If so, why?   You know, most Coaches and Trainers can’t answer that question.   They test because they think they’re supposed to.   That they need to in order to show ‘results’.   But there are other reasons…   read more

  Youth Sports Training with Weights At what age should a young person begin lifting weights or using Kettlebells?   The question I get asked more than any other.   Here’s my brief thought on the matter (taken right from the curriculum found in the IYCA’s Youth Fitness Specialist – Level 1 Certification read more

Youth Fitness Tools What do you REALLY need to train young athletes properly?   What if I gave you an exact template to spend no more than $50, but with that small investment, could stock your entire Youth Fitness & Sport Training business with exactly what you needed to both:   Get started now…   [...] read more

Youth Sports Training For; Mobility & Active Flexibility Injury Prevention – Mechanics Injury Prevention – Deficits Torso   I had 20 minutes, one volleyball court and 50+ young athletes…   So, here’s how I broke it down:   (A) Mobility/Active Flexibility (7 Minutes)   read more

Youth Training Systems   (1) Create An Ascension System   Prior to my arrival, if you watched the Novice Teams (8 – 11 years old) go through their conditioning regime and then you watched the Senior Team (16 – 18) right after, you’d have trouble distinguishing the difference.   Exercise Selection.   Volume.   Coaching [...] read more

It’s important for me to hear what you have to say about this topic on young athletes…  Read this short (but hopefully powerful) ‘Part 1′ and then chime in to let me know what you think…   read more

I’ve just released a very special video of one of my favorite presenters in the world of sport and fitness training, Lee Taft.   http://iyca.org/dvds/lee   It’s from the 2010 IYCA International Summit, where Lee started off his presentation by playing Simon Says with the entire audience – all 300 of us!!   But it [...] read more

In far too many situations throughout North America, strength coaches and personal trainers make common errors in their programming for young athletes, many of which can lead to overtraining syndromes -   Critical Analysis of Biomotor Ability   In working with young athletes, there is very little reason to ever ‘test’ their ability at certain [...] read more

Developing a young athlete is not based solely on a given conditioning coach’s understanding of scientifically valid measures of motor stimulus, strength training or flexibility exercises. In fact, it could be argued that given all of the critical information contained in this textbook on exercise selection, methodology and sensitive period development, successful coaches will be [...] read more