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Exactly How to Become The Best Youth Coach Possible…

Posted on: March 7th, 2011 by IYCA 11 Comments

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OK… Here are the definitions that were emailed to me.

What do you think?

(1) Balance
The ability to remain centered while center of gravity changes within static, dynamic, locomotive and non-locomotive action

(2) Rhythm
The ability to express timing

(3) Movement
The ability or aptitude to be locomotive through varying levels and directions

(4) Strength
The ability to express force

(5) Mobility
The ability to move within free and full ranges

(6) Tactical
The ability to demonstrate strategic or intentional action in order to produce a desired outcomes

Become a Youth Coach

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Youth Sports Training Technique: Part 3

Posted on: February 17th, 2011 by IYCA No Comments

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Youth Sports Training

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The Importance of Speed Training for Young Athletes…

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Open versus Closed Habits?

‘Part 3’:

The core of technique development or learning is in the action of achieving perfect sensory-motor habits. A sensory-motor habit is simply a “learned activity of sensory and motor processes intentionally practiced to the point of nationalization”. From a physiological perspective, this entails creating a permanent conditional reflex connection that enables the exact same motor reactions to respond to the same stimuli. The development of a sensory-motor habit occurs through many stages:

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Young Athletes & Coordination – Part 3

Posted on: August 10th, 2010 by IYCA No Comments

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Young Athletes & Coordination Series

Here is the third and final portion of ‘Young Athletes & Coordination’:

(3) Teenage Athletes Are ‘Too Old’

Now, while there is truth to the matter that many of the sensitive periods for coordination development lay during the preadolescent phase of life, it would be shortsighted to suggest that teenage athletes should not be exposed to this type of training.

Firstly, much of the training of coordination takes the form of injury preventative. Any sort of ‘balance’ exercise, for example, requires proprioceptive conditioning and increases in stabilizer recruitment. With ‘synchronization of movement’, large ROM and mobility work is necessary. ‘Kinesthetic differentiation’, by definition, involves sub-maximal efforts or ‘fine-touch’ capacity which is a drastically different stimulus than most young athletes are used to in training settings.

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Coordination and Movement Skill Development For Young Athletes: The Key to Long Term Athletic Success

Posted on: July 10th, 2009 by IYCA 6 Comments

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Young Athletes Long Term Athletic Success

The key ingredient to working with pre-adolescent and early adolescent young athletes is providing global stimulation from a movement perspective. Younger athletes must experience and eventually perfect a variety of motor skills in order to ensure both future athletic success and injury prevention. Developing basic coordination through movement stimulus is a must, with the eventual goal of developing sport-specific coordination in the teenage years. Coordination itself, however, is a global system made up of several synergistic elements and not necessarily a singularly defined ability.

Balance, rhythm, spatial orientation and the ability to react to both auditory and visual stimulus have all been identified as elements of coordination. In fact, the development of good coordination is a multi-tiered sequence that progresses from skills performed with good spatial awareness but without speed to skills performed at increased speeds and in a constantly changing environment. As Joseph Drabik points out, Young Athletes coordination is best developed between the ages of 7 – 14, with the most crucial period being between 10 – 13 years of age.

As with anything else, an important issue with respect to coordination development is to provide stimulus that is specific (and therefore appropriate) for the individual. Prescribing drills that are either too easy or too difficult for the young athletes will have a less than optimal result.

An interesting note, as I have suggested in past articles, is that there appears to be a cap with respect to coordination development and ability. Younger athletes who learn to master the elements associated with good coordination (balance, rhythm, spatial awareness, reaction etc), are far better off then athletes who are not exposed to this kind of exercise stimulation until advanced ages. The ability to optimally develop coordination ends at around the age of 16. This validates the claim that global, early exposure is the key from an athletic development standpoint. Again, global coordination will serve as the basis to develop specific coordination in the teenage years.

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Developing Young Athletes: Intelligent vs. Dumb

Posted on: June 15th, 2009 by IYCA 6 Comments

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>Developing Young Athletes With the IYCA

‘Intelligence’.

Defined by the dictionary as –

“The capacity for learning, understanding and aptitude for grasping relationships”

That sets the stage very nicely for the meaning of this IYCA-based term.

What about ‘Athletic’?

It’s defined as such –

“Involving the use of physical skills or capabilities”

String those two definitions together and you’ve got the basis for the main motivation needed when training and developing young athletes.

In short –

“Increasing the capacity for learning and understanding various physical skills and how they relate”

That is the crux and critical requirement with respect to programming for young athletes.

And how backwards do we have that these days?

Increase the capacity for learning:

It’s not about over-coaching pre-adolescent children.

Teaching them the ‘mechanics’ of how to throw a baseball or kick a soccer ball.

It’s about enhancing their knowledge and understanding of how to perform these actions via Guided Discovery.

Allowing them to play.

Get a feel for the motion themselves and through trail and error, develop bodily aptitude.

Understanding various physical skills and how they relate:

Through this ‘trail and error’ period of development, it can’t be about specificity, either.

It’s about indirect, global stimulus.

Running fast, for example, isn’t just based on the action of running.

It’s based on:

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Complete Athlete Development: No More Guessing

Posted on: October 27th, 2008 by IYCA 4 Comments

No more guessing.

Proven strategies that work every time.

Complete Athlete Development:

That’s what you get when you follow what is in the DVD

An all-inclusive training system for working with

young athletes ages 6 – 18.

And yes. It’s been internationally field-tested and

proven to work.

Over 15,000 young athletes worldwide have been exposed

to my training system. And I may a lot of mistakes

with them along the way.

That’s kind of like the built-in guarantee of Complete

Athlete Development.

I’ve made mistakes and am certainly never afraid to

say I was wrong.

I used to work endlessly on linear speed technique.

Teach my young athletes who to accelerate forward,

drive their arms and get full hip extension with every

stride.

Then I realized I was wrong.

It’s not about linear speed. It’s about angles and

deceleration.

That’s why I created my Principles of Movement.

They teach young athletes how to accelerate and decelerate

through a progressive sequence –

1) Repeat Statically

2) Repeat Dynamically

3) Repeat Randomly

4) Predictable Specificity

5) Random Specificity

6) Individualization

I also used to think that working with pre-adolescents

was nothing more than playing some random games.

Tag

Sharks and Minnows

Capture the Flag

Then I realized that these games had to be cloaked in

certain aspects of coordination.

That without these coordination efforts, young athletes

would be grossly deficient in certain areas of athletic

ability by the time they reached the teenage years.

Some of the coordination facets include –

1) Kinesthetic Differentiation

2) Balance

3) Rhythm

4) Spatial Awareness

5) Movement Adequacy

Ever since I adopted all these ideas and put them into

practical use, I have seen the injury rates of my young

athletes drop considerably while their overall performance

increase dramatically.

Have a look at what other Coaches worldwide have to

say about my Complete Athlete Development system –

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This training system has changed the philosophies,

training styles and lives of countless Coaches worldwide.

And all because I was in the trenches making mistakes.

Until I found the secret to it all…

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‘Till next time,

Brian

Developing Young Athletes: What is Athletic Intelligence?

Posted on: July 14th, 2008 by IYCA No Comments

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Developing Young Athletes

‘Intelligence’.

Defined by the dictionary as –

“The capacity for learning, understanding and aptitude for grasping relationships”

That sets the stage very nicely for the meaning of this IYCA-based term.

What about ‘Athletic’?

It’s defined as such –

“Involving the use of physical skills or capabilities”

String those two definitions together and you’ve got the basis for the main motivation needed when training and developing young athletes.

In short –

“Increasing the capacity for learning and understanding various physical skills and how they relate”

That is the crux and critical requirement with respect to programming for young athletes.

And how backwards do we have that these days?

Increase the capacity for learning:

It’s not about over-coaching pre-adolescent children.

Teaching them the ‘mechanics’ of how to throw a baseball or kick a soccer ball.

It’s about enhancing their knowledge and understanding of how to perform these actions via Guided Discovery.

Allowing them to play.

Get a feel for the motion themselves and through trail and error, develop bodily aptitude.

Understanding various physical skills and how they relate:

Through this ‘trail and error’ period of development, it can’t be about specificity, either.

It’s about indirect, global stimulus.

Running fast, for example, isn’t just based on the action of running.

It’s based on:

– Rhythm

– Movement Adequacy

– Efficient production and absorption of force

– Body position for optimal acceleration and deceleration

These physical skills aren’t only developed via performing endless sets of sprints or start and stop drills for young athletes

In fact, they are BEST developed singularly. Learned and understood in isolation and then eventually brought together in a relative format.

If you haven’t already, watch this basic ‘Skip Loop’ exercise from the ‘Coordination Development’ DVD found in Complete Athlete Development –

Rhythm

Timing

Movement Adequacy

Force Production and Absorption

Through drills like these, my young athletes are learning how to be ‘intelligent’.

It is through indirect methods of enhancing bodily knowledge that kids form the basis of becoming superior athletes in time.

It’s a process that can’t be rushed or overlooked.

The problem is, we rush and/or ignore this phase of athletic development all the time.

And that’s the main reason so few of our young athletes ever amount to much in terms of optimal sporting success.

They were rushed through a process.

Over-coached and ‘specified’ too early.

They simply aren’t Athletically Intelligent.

And when you don’t have basic intelligence, you can’t possibly expand your knowledge passed a certain point.

You lack the foundational aptitude on which to learn more.

Ask yourself this question –

Are the indirect aspects of learning addition and subtraction important to the eventual mastery of specific mathematical skills such as calculus or algebra?

You better believe they are.

Now apply that reasoning to developing young athletes.

Isn’t it time you saw firsthand what training for sporting success should REALLY look like?

Have a look at Complete Athlete Development and see what you’re missing –

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Brian