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Youth Speed Training Mistakes

Posted on: February 21st, 2011 by IYCA 2 Comments

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Youth Speed Training

Youth Speed Training Expert Opinions

Coach Robert Dos Remedios is considered one of the best Strength Coaches in College sports.

And he agrees.

So does Sue Falsone.

Sue is the former Head Physical Therapist for the Los Angeles Dodgers and current Director of Physical Therapy for the vaunted ‘Athletes Performance’ facility in Arizona.

The ability of an athlete to become ‘elite’, ‘professional’ or ‘world-class’ is based almost entirely on what kind of development happened when they were young.

Coach Dos explained to me how puzzled and frustrated his is year-in and year-out to have all-state high school athletes come in as freshmen to his program…

… Only to be lacking in the BASICS of speed, agility and strength.

As far as he’s concerned the ‘Mistakes’ we make at the youth level from a Speed & Agility Training perspective are:

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Symptomatology of Training Young Athletes

Posted on: January 27th, 2011 by IYCA 5 Comments

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 ‘I am Training Young Athletes, too‘.

And why not, right?

Training young athletes is the fastest growing niche within the entire fitness industry.

It’s worth over $4 billion a year in the United States alone and more than 1 million children, youths and teens hired a Personal Trainer in 2007 – a large number for the purpose of enhancing sport performance.

But that term, ‘enhancing sport performance’ is something that doesn’t really belong in the vernacular of the youth sports training world. At least not in the way we currently use it.

At the risk of sounding acrimonious, let me ask you this question.

How much do you really know about human growth, development and the necessary components of training clients in the pediatric and formative years?

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Pro Athletes & Youth Conditioning

Posted on: September 7th, 2010 by IYCA No Comments

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Here are your updates to www.IYCAMembers.com for the week of August 30, 2010

1) AUDIO – HOW PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES ARE AFFECTED BY YOUTH CONDITIONING & TRAINING

Our newest IYCAMembers.com Columnist is the incredible, Sue Falsone.

Sue is the Head Physical Therapist for Athletes Performance, a Speaker on the Perform Better Tour and the PT for Major League Baseball’s, Los Angeles Dodgers.

Quite the pedigree!

In this interview, Sue explains the role of Youth Athlete Development Training and its impact she sees everyday with elite, professional athletes.

Quality training at the youth level is necessary… And Sue is going to tell you why:
youth conditioning

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