Social Distancing and Fun, Effective and Engaging Youth Programs
As the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the “typical” daily life of children and adults across the world, we are now left with the challenge of moving forward. If you are involved with youth sports or other physical activity programs, moving forward right...
Age-Related Training Goals for Young Athletes (Part 4: Learning How to Move for Sports and Other Activities)
In this final installment of the Age-Related Training Goals for Young Athletes series, we look at the fundamental movement skills that are the basis for all sports and activities. To reach the mature stage of the fundamental movement skills, expert instruction is...
Age-Related Training Goals for Young Athletes (Part 2: Start with the Senses)
In Part 1 you took home a basic framework for introducing athletic skills at opportune ages. In Part 2 of this series, you’ll discover how and when to develop the critical sensory skills that allow young athletes to process information quickly and create an...
Are We Missing the Point? Simple Success Tools for Young Athletes
As parents, we’ll do just about anything to give our kids a leg up on their future. As a matter of fact, it seems that parenthood now is mostly ferrying kids from one private teacher or coach to another – all in the name of giving them a leg up on their...
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...
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