Hybrid Movements for Killer 6-13 Year Old Programming

Posted on: January 23rd, 2012 by IYCA No Comments

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 more ‘traditional’ exercises to generate new, hybrid movements will put your programming over the top!

Lunge walks (monster walks) combined with bear crawls for discovering balance, systemic strength, contra lateral coordination and with a progression even reactivity. Log rolls and push up holds (progressed to push ups) will cover a variety of training factors including core strength, upper extremity strength, spacial awareness and more.

Watch this short video below to see exactly how to put these hybrid movements together with progressions!

Youth Fitness Training Tug-Of-War?

Posted on: October 25th, 2010 by IYCA 9 Comments

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Youth Fitness Training Sample program from Dr. Kwame Brown

Skip Tag 10 minutes

Equipment

Cones (and line chalk if you have it) to mark off area
Colored pinnies (optional)

Instructions

Split into teams at opposite corners of the area
The first group is “it” (pick a color for them)
The second group is to be chased (wearing the other color)
Instruct the students that they must skip only
If anyone is tagged or caught running, they must do 5 lunges to get back in
The game round is over when everyone on Team 2 is tagged. Roles are reversed

Tips

Call out “freeze” randomly to keep it unpredictable
Make sure that you instruct students on proper touching
If the students can’t touch lightly, give them something soft like a balled up t-shirt to tag with

Purpose

Agility
Teamwork
Acceleration

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