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

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 [...] 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

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 10-year old football [...] 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

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 Specialization a few days ago.   Keith offered some great insight and thought. Here’s what he had [...] read more

OK…   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   I really don’t think there [...] read more