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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High School Certification Taster * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   Did you miss last night’s recording?   No worries!   The complete recording AND PDF transcript of every word that [...] read more

  "What’s the main goal I should concentrate on in the New Year, Brian?"   A question I get routinely asked between the beginning of October and the end of December every single year.   The turning of the calendar to a blank slate and brand new 12-months is a source of enthusiasm for most [...] read more

When it comes to young athletes I’m confident for a lot of reasons…   I’ve field-tested the ‘Complete Athlete Development’ system with about 20,000 young athletes worldwide over the past 12 years.   The system itself contains more than 100 photographs of exercises I use every day in developing the best and most dominant young [...] 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

Kids Fitness By Dr. Kwame M. Brown It would help to read the following article before reading this post, but I will try to summarize below. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article1689463.ece The title of the article: “Is PE a waste of time?”, by Barbara Lantin of the Sunday Times. Yet another provocative title. I guess that’s useful, but the [...] read more

Kids Fitness I’ve just released a very special video of one of my favorite presenters in the world of sport and  kids 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 for kids fitness with the entire audience – all [...] 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 Speed Training Priciples The "101" doesn’t mean easy or beginner – It means "critical".   The stuff that is truly important.   The stuff that enables you to create the fastest athletes in the game through correct youth speed training methods.   The stuff that matters above all else.   And here’s [...] read more

    Kids Coaching teaches us Blake came to me as a quiet, shy and terribly uncoordinated 8th grader.   13 years old and quite tall for his age, I knew the second I saw him that I was going to like the kid.   He never said much and certainly had a great deal [...] read more

I’ll just come straight out with it.   I wrecked my car last weekend.   Something I likely won’t forget anytime soon.   I was driving from Chicago to Minnesota in order to present at a seminar in St. Paul.   Scheduled to speak at 10:40 in the morning on Sunday, I opted to leave [...] read more

Our standards have sunk.   Do you realize that?   The fitness industry creates nonsense aerobic-style classes for children and the vast majority of professionals claim them to be useful because "at least it gets kids moving"   Now understand, I’m the biggest proponent in the world of the "something is better than nothing" way [...] read more

    IYCA Criticism is something I’ve just come to accept as part of my job.   It’s far easier to throw a brick at a house than it is to build one yourself.   And thus far since creating and launching the IYCA, I’ve seen firsthand how that statement is true.   From world-class, [...] read more

    My youth fitness question to you last Friday certainly created a stir.   The IYCA Blog was literally LIT UP by passionate professionals worldwide, all of whom chimed in with there thoughts to my query -   "What is the biggest problem in youth fitness and sport training?"   The responses were intelligent, [...] read more

    Youth Sports Specialization The IYCA Blog has been jumping of late with some great training-based conversation.   I wanted you to read an exchange I had with a reader named Keith.   It was in reference to my article on Early youth sports Specialization a few days ago.   Keith offered some great [...] read more

    "I would suggest that one of the greatest decisions that I have made in my life was to take the IYCA Youth Fitness Certification course that you offer"   - Bob Acton   Become a IYCA Youth Fitness Specialist – Level 1 today and join the movement!     read more

    OK…   Youth Speed Certification Details first -   :: Saturday July 18, "Speed & Agility Certification – Level 1" taught by Lee Taft and myself   :: Sunday July 19, "Youth Nutrition Certification" taught by Dr. Chris Mohr   :: A free 3-hour informal ‘master mind’ with me on Sunday morning   [...] read more

    Coaching safely a high school athlete A colleague of mine gave me the link to an article that was printed in an online sports publication. The article started out discussing the tragic and unfortunate death of a young high school athlete who collapsed during a training session in his school’s weight room   [...] read more

    Is the IYCA doing what you need? Every single day of every single week, I receive emails from all over the world.   And it’s the most amazing thing I have ever experienced.   I mean, I was raised in Toronto, Canada by a little redheaded Irish Mom with a big temper (who [...] read more