Play & Fitness
Navigating the Virtual World of Coaching Physical Activity with Kids: Overcoming Equipment Challenges
Having access to equipment while coaching or training kids lends not only to variety, but to our ability as coaches to modify activities to make them more level-appropriate and/or engaging. That being said, many youth coaches and teachers have been thrust into...
4 Ways to Integrate Physical Literacy Training into Sports Practice
Concepts of “physical literacy” are now becoming par for the course when it comes to creating activity programs for kids. International bodies for fitness and sport are embracing this “new” terminology as the foundational construct from which kids can learn to...
How to: 60 Minute Fitness Program for Grade School Kids
Learn the science and art behind fitness programs for grade school children!
Play for Athletic Performance and Lifetime Health
Whether the goal is to guide a child into lifelong athletic success, or merely equip them with the tools to be active for life, play is a powerful tool to deliver both results!
Who’s to Blame for Our Technology Addicted, Sugar Consuming, Inactive Kids?
Kids these days! It's so frustrating to see my kids just sit around being inactive, staring at their phones, eating sugar, and slowly becoming more and more obese. Someone needs to do something! I mean, someone else needs to do something. I’m an adult. I have to do...
How Childrens’ Sleep Habits Impact Their Bodyweight
Discover the science of how sleep quality and bodyweight are related with children.
5 Secrets to Making Healthy Living Easier for You and Your Family
Man, raising kids is hard. Before kids, we struggle to get ourselves to a point where we sort of feel like adults then BAM! Now we have to help someone else through the process. It’s like taking piano lessons and after struggling to learn your first song your teachers...
5 Essential At-home Fitness Toys that Inspire Kids to Move (Age 3-8)
“Toys” can take on many forms for a child. From the well-marketed plastic renderings of the Disney character- of- the- day to empty cardboard boxes, a child’s imagination can turn inanimate objects into an inspiration to think, dream, and move. As kids are less...
The BEST Pre-Game Warm Up to Create Young Champions!
Stretching....Is dead! Well, not really. (That’s just a really catchy headline.) In reality, the stretching we grew up with still has some benefit for our kids, we’ve just found it needs to be applied differently to provide a benefit. We’ve actually discovered that...
Training Kids for sports – Part 3: The Four Secrets to Successful Performance
By Jeff King, MA, CSCS In part 2 of my series on training kids for sports, I discussed the importance of injury prevention, and specific solutions such as increasing work capacity, improving stability through movement, and addressing muscle imbalances. In this final...
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