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

A very interesting concept in  Sports Performance Training For Kids that needs more attention that it currently gets.   You need to see this:   read more

Youth Agility Obstacle Course Video Imagination, creativity AND biomotor improvements in speed and agility.   Have a look at this…   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

  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

Youth Training For Sports As a given sport evolves and the participants within that sport begin to break records and perform what was once considered impossible, you can be sure that advancements in training and conditioning regimes have occurred within that sport. Very few athletes ever become great sport technicians without the inclusion of a [...] read more

  Training young athletes… It seems that everybody dabbles in this market  Whether the fitness or sport training professional is a Physical Therapist by trade, Personal Trainer to the average adult clientele or Strength Coach to elite sporting stars, when stating their bios and areas or expertise, it seems that the sentence always ends with [...] read more

Exactly as I predicted, the “High School Strength & Conditioning Coach” certification has been absolutely flying off the shelves since I released it yesterday.   There is an unbelievable buzz at IYCA Head Office that, quite frankly, I haven’t seen in a very long time – the whole Fitness and Sport Training industry is lighting [...] read more

Speed Training for Youth Tissue Quality Mobility Torso Movement Preparation Skill   That SHOULD be what your speed training for youth Sessions look like.   No matter what sport (but soccer in this case).   Watch this:     The Most Important Part of Speed Training for Sport Looks Like This:   —> http://iyca.org/products/yfs1   read more

Here’s where I left off with ‘Part 2′ of the Dave Gleason chronicle:   "More on the training and business side in a bit, though, for now, I want to explain what Athletic Revolution has done for me, my life and my career…"   Now, here’s where we pick it up for ‘Part 3′:   [...] read more

Athletic Revolution is absolutely exploding nationwide.   A 100% done-for-you Youth Fitness & Sport Training facility or program that is just waiting for you…   … Waiting for you to join the AR Family and share in the joy of owning a business of your own that has proven effective, successful and fulfilling.   Every [...] read more

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9.) Financial Justification - Most athlete programs are funded by parents or the school system or a possible sponsor. Parents can rationalize spending the dollars on a youth fitness business and on their children more than themselves when it comes to physical fitness. Why? Parents view their children as “still having a chance” to achieve [...] read more

I start this 60-minute audio interview with the business genius Pat Rigsby by saying:   “You’re not going to get this information out of any books and you won’t hear this any other place”   This is one of the key elements to how Pat and myself have both built successful Youth Fitness business and [...] read more

  The Youth Fitness and Sport Training market has officially exploded.   Trainers, Coaches, Facilities and Health Clubs worldwide have all jumped at this new opportunity to provide quality service to the demographic most in need.   And the market has responded.   More than 1 million kids and teenagers hired a Personal Trainer last [...] read more

Youth Conditioning Market: the perfect storm Fitness Professionals with acumen for business will clearly recognize that the youth conditioning market represents a literal perfect storm in terms of revenue potential and stability.  There are relatively few professionals who specialize in this niche and yet the consumer demand is growing by the day.  In fact, unlike [...] read more

    Youth Fitness Camps … Dave, the incredbile BJ Gaddour and myself, all teamed up LAST summer to create an unbelievable Youth Fitness & Sport Training Summer Camp system that will be going on sale next week,   An incredible DVD package that showcases how each of us use very different training programs to [...] read more

    Youth Fitness Summer is the ‘make or break’ time of year.   Without a strong summer of youth fitness or sport training camps working effectively on all levels, you can literally kiss your business progress goodbye.   June, July and August represent your greatest potential to have a revenue spike.   They are [...] read more

Is it OK for 8 – 10 year old kids to participate in Triathlons?   BG Says…   While I am 100% heartened by virtually any activity a young person chooses to engage in, it is important to be careful how we direct their efforts in terms of "developmentally-sound" parameters.   The essence and need [...] read more