Age-Related Training Goals for Young Athletes (Part 3: Prime Time for Coordination)
In the 3rd installment in our series, you will learn that coordination is not one skill, but rather a combination of many specific elements of physical development. As with other skills, there are unique times during development in which there are increased...
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...
Movin’ to the Beat – The Key to Smooth Moves
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Kids can often seem clumsy. It’s not so much that they are truly uncoordinated and clumsy, it’s often the case that they simply haven’t fully developed the neural circuits, synaptic connections, nerve insulation (myelination) and sensory...
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