03 Jul Complete Guide to Training the Youth Female Athlete
"It's because she's female and has wider hips...
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25 Jun Osgood-Schlatter in Female Athletes: No, You Can’t Do a Few Stretches For Your Knee (You NEED a FULL PROGRAM!)
"Do you have a few stretches for my knee?" - every young female athlete with knee pain. This won't work. To solve stubborn knee pain during growth spurts, a young girl needs a FULL PROGRAM that addresses strength, flexibility, mobility, and proper load management of her sport. However,...
10 May Why Your Female Athlete Is Getting Tired in Games (And Why She Isn’t Explosive!)
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It's the first half. Your female athlete is on fire. She's running off the ball. She's exploding into space. She's bursting past defenders. She looks downright unstoppable. Then, the halftime whistle blows and a switch flips. Hard left turn, in fact. Come the final stretch of the game, she's looking...
29 Apr Hip Strengthening Drills for Youth Female Athletes
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The bad news is this: the majority of female athletes have weak hips. Ah, glad that's out of the way now. Let's move onto some better news...
22 Apr Female Athlete Performance Nutrition: Improving Energy, Recovery and Speed
It's year 2022 and I'm still talking about the benefits of strength training for female athletes. For some, the conversation is easy and they get it. For others, I feel I have to cajole them to get under the iron, and that their female athletes...
14 Apr Improving Explosiveness in Female Athletes
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Explosiveness = power To get scientific, it is the ability to exert force as fast as possible. To get mathematical, speed + strength = power This means female athletes must be both strong and fast to become explosive. They must have strength in these main muscle groups: - Hamstrings -...
12 Apr The Unending Cycle of Self Care Practices: How They’re Ruining Female Athletes
Anxiety creeps in. The world crumbles. You fail. You're in a rut. *cue the mental skills gurus* "Do you affirmations!" "Meditate!" "Journal!" "Put motivational sticky notes on your bathroom mirror!" "Meditate again!" "Remove negativity!" "Rub essential oils on yourself!" "Get energy healing done!" "Go to the spa!" ...
03 Apr Mental Health and Female Athletes: When is the Discussion Too Much?
The death of Katie Meyer, the Stanford women's soccer goalkeeper and 2019 national champion, was a horrific and devastating event. It jolted millions across the globe, and sparked another wave of mental health discussion in the youth sports community. The loss of a young woman who...
17 Feb Be Enchanted By the Simple Things
I'll say it over and over again. "Be consistent with the basics." I've said it endlessly over the years, in fact louder each time. I don't care if the message has been blasted ad nauseam, and you're tired of hearing it. Let's push you even more. Consistency, in...
26 Jan Better Body Composition Improves Performance in Female Athletes
First things first: it's okay to chase muscle and build better body composition. When we are talking to female athletes who want to raise the ceiling on their performance - their speed, change of direction ability, endurance, and power output - having more muscle is...