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...
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...
The Winter Warm-Up
The Winter Warm-Up Brett Klika- CEO SPIDERfit Kids With winter temperature dropping, it’s more important than ever that youth follow a proper warm-up before PE class, sports practice, or any other physical activity. Below is a “plug and play” program for the first...
Foundations of Physical Literacy
By Brett Klika CSCS We start with letters. We learn that each letter had a sound. These sounds can be put together in to words. Words can then be put together into phrases, paragraphs, stories, and novels. Pretty soon, we’re reading. Literacy is developed by breaking...
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