Coaching & Teaching
Training Kids for sports – Part 1: The Importance of Free Play!
By Jeff King, MA, CSCS My name is Jeff King and I am the Director of Athletics at Fitness Quest 10 in San Diego. Over the past nine years, I have had the great opportunity to work with young athletes. Thousands of hours training kids have created many positive...
Strategies To Enhance Kids’ Success In School – Using the Power of the “Hidden Senses”
By Lisa White, OTR It is an honor to be asked to contribute this month as a guest blogger. In case you missed it, April was Occupational Therapy Month! For those who are unfamiliar with occupational therapy, or OT for short, I would like to help explain who we are and...
Physical Education for ALL Kids Part 2: Adapting Curriculum for Kids with Special Needs
By Bailee Holt-Sandsmark, CSCS In part 1 of this series, I discussed the physical, mental, and emotional benefits for special needs kids when they are mainstreamed into physical education classes. In this article, I will discuss the various methods of adapting...
Kids Need Lots of Calories… and Here’s Why
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Considering we're in the middle of a youth obesity epidemic, why am I saying that kids need to eat more calories? Well, that’s not exactly the whole story. The two big factors at the root of the problem are sedentary behavior and eating too...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 5 – Temporal Awareness
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in my introductory post, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a unique...
Physical Education for All Kids: Adapting Curriculum for Kids With Special Needs
By Bailee Holt-Sandsmark, CSCS In my experience, when a full inclusion Physical Education program is taught properly it can have a massive positive impact on students with special needs. Physical Education is the only class that all students, regardless of disability,...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 4 – Spatial Awareness
by Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in my introductory post, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a unique...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 3 – Directional Awareness
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in the first post in this series, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 2 – Body Awareness
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS As I discussed in the first post of this series, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, and parents, we have a unique...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 1 – The 9 Perceptual-Motor Skills
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS With the rise in awareness of childhood obesity, we’ve been imploring kids to move more and eat less. But what if we're missing the mark? Today, many kids are over-scheduled, uninspired, and drowning in electronics – they simply don’t play...
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