05 Mar Enough Fit Shaming: How Female Athletes Can Celebrate Their Achievements and Inspire Others
"I don't mean to brag, but...
Author: erica
03 Mar Online Training for Young Female Athletes
Online training is the future. For one, people have less and less time on their hands and want more convenience, more flexibility, and more days they can just stay home and lounge in their pajamas. Now, this isn't to say online training is a cakewalk. It involves...
27 Feb Be A Leader of Queens: How Coaches Can Serve Themselves To Help Their Female Athletes
What's that old saying? You have to put on your oxygen mask first so you can save your baby. If you can't breathe, how can you save the infant? This rings true in all areas of life: the more you take care of yourself, the more you...
26 Feb Exercises Females Athletes Should Be Doing For ACL Injury Prevention: Sprinter’s Balance
There are several common things I see when I first start working with middle school female athletes: - lack of coordination - lack of stability - lack of balance Of course, there are a multitude of reasons that have led up to these inefficiencies, from lack of free play...
23 Feb Exercises Female Athletes Should Be Doing For Injury Prevention: Lateral Toe Walks
The quadriceps, hamstrings and glutes get a lot of love when training female athletes for ACL injury prevention. One muscle group we cannot ignore are the calves, secondary muscles to providing stability of the knee and elevating joint compression. The calf muscles cross between the ankle...
20 Feb Exercises Female Athletes Should Be Doing for ACL Injury Prevention: Linear Deceleration
I'll be the first to celebrate strong girls. There's something so magical about a teenage girl crushing a 30lb pull over the bar: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUXI5eV_AuI&feature=youtu.be[/embed] And don't you dare take away from her achievement by screeching, "that's a CHIN-UP!!!" Whether a young female athlete does overhand, underhand or neutral, it...
16 Feb Making An Impact Greater Than Sports On Youth Athletes
I had no idea. I mean, I had some idea. But I didn't know the extent of the impact I've had on these kids off the field and out of the gym. When your message is, in fact, building resilient athletes for life, you still don't take the...
05 Feb Exercises Female Athletes Should Be Doing For ACL Injury Prevention: SL Broad Jump
I'm going to get right into today's post. When it comes to jumping drills, we don't want to get crazy. We want girls to execute quality, crisp landings, and progress slowly. Starting on two leg jumps, then progressing to single leg. Here is a challenging broad jump...
04 Feb The Next Journey: I’m Moving To Florida
Plot twist, I know. Truth be told: this has been something that has been marinating for several years. Although it seems like a decision as abrupt as Wall Street changing the rules with GameStop stock, it wasn't. For the longest time, I longed to make my exit out...
02 Feb Exercises Female Athletes Should Be Doing For ACL Injury Prevention: Single Leg RDL with Rotation
"Just find balance" seems to be the buzz phrase of the century. Busy? "Just find balance." Juggling having two jobs, schools, kids? "Just find balance." Coaching 7 days a week, while writing programs, while trying to keep up with the stock market shenanigans? "Just find a balance." Admittedly, I want to jolt...