Hybrid Movements For Young Athletes     By Dave Gleason   Creating fun, imaginative and challenging activities for 6-9, and 10-13 year old can be a difficult task.  Keeping in mind that 6-9 year old athletes are still discovering movement and 10-13 year old athletes are exploring movement will help.  Combining 2 or [...] 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

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  In this video Dave Jack shares a great Transition Game that he uses   to help his young athletes make the transition from school or wherever else   they may be coming in from into their training session.   This is a superb way to get the young athletes focussed from their outside stressors. [...] read more

  By Melissa Lambert Young athletes require more than physical training As a former collegiate athlete, I remember spending my off seasons training every opportunity I had including weight lifting, running and playing with the men’s team to increase my speed of play. I took pride in having the top times in running and physically [...] 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

  Young athletes hip turn whole-part coaching By Dave Gleason   Coaching any exercise to young athletes can be challenging. One of the most effective methods is to break down an activity into its component parts, often times all the way down to the smallest or simplest part possible.   This is very true when [...] 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

    by Wil Fleming   Both bands and medicine balls are great tools to develop power for athletes. When you combine them, though, you can get some really practical drills for athletes to use for total body power. Check out the video below to see a great drill I use to link the upper [...] read more

    by Ryan Ketchum   The more and more business coaching that I do for IYCA members, mastermind members, and franchisees the more I realize that our training philosophies and mindset sometimes get in the way of us running a great business.   I am prepared to be tarred and feathered, put in the stockades [...] read more

    by Wil Fleming   I remember vividly 3 years ago at this time Ryan and I were working our tails off to get ready for our grand opening that was only a couple weeks away. It was a really exciting time for us.   We were assembling all the equipment we ordered.   [...] read more

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    by Wil Fleming   The other day a track coach that I really respect called me to discuss an athlete that we both work with and right away I knew he was excited. I could hear in his voice that he was just fired up. I asked him what was going on and [...] read more

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  by Dave Gleason   Setting short, medium and long term goals is the foundation for any action plan.  Creating and attaining any goal is a process.   In the context of goal setting for young athletes, often a trainer or coach will direct the question of desired goal(s) by giving away the answers.  A [...] read more

  Sport specialization the brief, but telling conclusion…   The study’s findings are relatively convincing.  The elite group tended to devote far less time at earlier ages in sport-specific training.    Additionally, early sport specialization was found to be a likely predictor of classification as a near-elite athlete.    In other words, while the early [...] 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

Over the past 3 years with the IYCA, I’ve spent a lot of time considering this subject.   Are Kettlebells safe for young athletes?   Are they just a fad that our industry is embracing right now?   Are the reputed performance gains you get from using Kettlebells real?   I considered it all.   [...] read more

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