Easy Learning: 6 Steps to Teaching Movement Skills to Grade Schoolers
A growing number of children are entering sports and fitness programs lacking basic, fundamental movement skills. Once a task for physical education and play, youth sports and fitness coaches must now add the introduction of basic movement skills to their coaching...
Do Kids Need “Speed” Training Before Puberty?
Speed is the currency of success in most sports, even during the early years before sport skill is developed. This has led parents and coaches of young athletes to embark on a constant quest for gimmicks, gadgets, and gurus that could prove a shortcut for creating...
4 Reasons You Can’t Train Kids Like “Small Adults”
If you work with kids in any capacity, it’s goes without saying that their thoughts, motivations, and actions are very different than those of an adult. In the realm of sports and physical training however, many overlook or are unaware of just how...
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...
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