Female athlete ACL injury reduction is a journey, not a quick Google search. Peruse the internet and there are a plethora of balance exercises, prevention programs, and warmups for coaches to get their hands on to keep their female athletes healthy. While some of these are amazing...
Never would I have thought I'd be on a podcast chatting with two colleagues in cutoff shirts, while drinking coffee at 2pm in the afternoon. As crazy as this was, we got into some solid discussion on youth physical training. We talked speed development, injury prevention...
“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.” – Mia Hamm I stumbled into the house after dark. Drenched in sweat, rose colored cheeks, with a gradual calming of my huffing and puffing....
I'm going to get right to it today. No lengthy dissertation. I've been tapping away at my keyboard writing my print book, and my fingers are exhausted. Here is a Q&A I did with Simplifaster on making youth strength and conditioning fun: Youth Strength and Conditioning and Injury...
Chasing perfectionism is a losing game. It leaves young female athletes feeling defeated and flat, and it's a pursuit that becomes an unending cycle of frustration. You see, striving to be perfect goes against the human condition as well as the nature of life. It's hard...
Young girls’ muscles aren’t tight. They’re weak. Stop static stretching them. Just stop. Spare them the nonchalant team stretch at the end of the game, please. There have been numerous times I’ve been out watching soccer games and wandered around the sports complex to only see a team...