Young Athletes and Resistance Bands At least once a week I am posed the question about how to train my son or daughter using bands and in most cases all I can envision is kids being put through a grueling workout using big bands that literally throw them around like a human sling [...] read more

    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

    Kettlebell Snatch For Young Athletes   by Jason C Brown read more

  Kids Fitness Game   I have referenced the “pirate game” several times in the past in the context of utilizing a fun game to provide several aspects of fitness to young athletes 6-9 years old. As a back drop we must remember the very nature of our programming for this age group must be [...] read more

  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

    Young Athletes Programming in a Small Space       By Dave Gleason   At Athletic Revolution South Shore we have 2500 sq feet in total. Our usable space is approximately 1600 sq feet with an open turf area of only 1300 sq ft. We max out our session at 16-18 athletes per [...] read more

    Brain Food for Coaching Young Athletes.   by Phil Hueston, NASM-PES; IYCA-YFS   Your feedback and communication is brain food when it comes to coaching young athletes. To develop correctly and effectively, young athlete’s brains need a steady flow of quality nutrients and stimuli. Neural development and conditioning is a process that never [...] 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

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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

Young Athletes Need More Than Training A staple of the IYCA Code:   “Teach young athletes… Don’t Train”.   A little scary, perhaps?   Most certainly counterintuitive?   How do you talk to Coaches andYoung Athletes who think that every training session needs to be a ‘throw-up-fest’ of nothing but hard work?   Watch this [...] read more

IYCA Olympic Lift – Instructor Course Can Help Take Your Athletes To The Next Level read more

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Olympic Lifting Educational Opportunity I posted this article on my blog back in 2009 but decided to re-hash it for a very good reason…   On Monday July 11, the incredible Wil Fleming of Athletic Revolution will be joining me for a free educational event:   Olympic Lifting – Technique, Programming & Progressions   You [...] read more

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

Young Athlete Coaching Tip. I have a secret that I’ll be using with every young athlete I work with this summer…   It’s the difference between being a ‘Good’ Coach and a ‘Great’ one:young athlete read more