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- Plan for Success - Youth Training By: Brian Grasso
The most common problem facing Trainers & Coaches today with respect to developing young athletes over time is the ability to plan long-term.
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- Sports ALL Kids Should Play By: Brian Grasso
One of the questions that I get asked most routinely is which sports I believe offer the best development capacity to young athletes.
Tags: sports, kids, play, brian, grasso
- Teaching Technique - Laying the Foundation for Sporting Excellence By: Brian Grasso
Demonstrating good technique from a sporting perspective involves applying optimal movement ability in order to accomplish or solve a particular task effectively. A young athlete, for instance, who demonstrates sound technical ability while running is getting from point A to point B in an effective manner.
Tags: teaching, technique, sports, youth, brian, grasso
- Coordination and Movement Skill Development:The Key to Long Term Athletic Success By: Brian Grasso
As with anything else, an important issue with respect to coordination development is to provide stimulus that is specific (and therefore appropriate) for the individual.
Tags: coordination, movement, skill, development, sports, youth, brian grasso
- Plyometrics - How Watered Down Can It Get? By: Brian Grasso
Almost without exception, every ‘sport-performance training center’ and youth sporting association in North America both markets and incorporates some degree of plyometric conditioning into the routines of the athletes they manage.
Tags: sports, kids, play, brian, grasso
- The Machine Myth - Get Kids OFF Those Machines! By: Brian Grasso
Whenever I come into contact with a coach or trainer who preaches the virtues of machine-based strength training for young athletes, the same argument is typically offered – machines are safer for kids because they eliminate the dangerous aspects of traditional free weight training.
Tags: sports, kids, play, brian, grasso
- Kids and Exercise Machines By: Brian Grasso
There is no real danger in kids performing machine based training under the proper supervision and appropriate guidelines. Many studies done the world over have concluded that strength based training programs done on this kind of fitness equipment is very safe for young children (again under appropriate guidelines). My issue is not whether or not kids CAN perform this kind of training, my question is WHY they need to.
Tags: youth, sports, coaching, athlete, brian, grasso, play
- Why Do You Test Young Athletes? By: Brian Grasso
How to test a group of young athletes has become a popular 'discussion board' question recently. I have seen this query raised on several prominent websites and have been asked about it a great deal over the last few months. Thus... my desire to touch on the subject.
Tags: youth, sports, coaching, athlete, brian, grasso
- How to Warm-up Your Young Athletes By: Brian Grasso
Warming up for sport or activity is, in essence, preparing the body for the task it is about to do.
Tags: youth, sports, coaching, athlete, brian, grasso
- Speed Training By: Brian Grasso
Much like you wouldn’t expect your son or daughter to pass grade 2 or earn a bachelors degree in just 6 weeks, so to must you understand that optimal and lasting speed improvements don’t come in a short period of time.
Tags: sports, youth, training, coaching, brian, grasso, speed
- Overtraining - Part 1 By: Brian Grasso
The problem is that overtraining syndromes are not hard to develop with adolescent athletes and must be recognized as an issue with respect to programming.
Tags: overtraining, youth, sports, training, brian, grasso
- Overtraining - Part 2 By: Brian Grasso
General overtraining syndromes impact both the central nervous system as well as the endocrine system. Given that the regulation of many hormones within the endocrine system serve to oversee and manage our stress levels, it is fair to imply that general overtraining could be considered a stress related issue.
Tags: overtraining, youth, sports, training, brian, grasso
- A Practical Way to Prevent Overtraining By: Brian Grasso
In working with young athletes, there is very little reason to ever ‘test’ their ability at certain lifts or speed variances. Your programming guidelines must be based around instilling proper execution of technique in your young athletes from a lift and movement economy standpoint.
Tags: overtraining, youth, sports, training, brian, grasso, prevention
- Flexibility - More Than Stretching By: Brian Grasso
Performing basic static stretches (like a standard hamstring or calf stretch) can certainly increase the resting length and decrease the tone of a given muscle, but that may have little to no effect on the actual flexibility that a young athlete has.
Tags: flexibility, coaching, youth, sports, brian, grasso
- Sport Diversity - The Application Behind The Theory By: Brian Grasso
While the multilateral development versus early specialization debate tends to wage endlessly in North America, other nations have adopted its concepts and applied its principals, due to both practical success as well as scientific research.
Tags: sports, youth, training, coaching, brian, grasso, speed
- The Concepts of Multilateral Development By: Brian Grasso
Without question the most mismanaged collection of athletes in North America are young athletes.
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- Flexibility - Are We Hurting Kids? By: Brian Grasso
The scope of confusion regarding flexibility can be seen when considering the assessment tools most commonly used to test one’s suppleness.
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- Flexibility for Young Athletes - Q & A with Bill Hartman By: Brian Grasso
What is the difference between Flexibility and Mobility?
Technically speaking based on textbook definitions there may be no difference, but I do tend to separate the two.
Tags: sports, youth, training, coaching, brian, grasso
- Flexibility for Young Athletes - Q & A with Dr. Kwame Brown By: Brian Grasso
What is the single greatest mistake or myth people make when it comes to Flexibility training?
Tags: sports, youth, training, coaching, brian, grasso
- Global Development vs. Sport Specific Training It's All in the Science By: Brian Grasso
No one can learn how to create 6 or 12 month plans in a day. It takes time and diligent effort to acquire this skill, but your ability to get better over time will have a direct and positive impact on both your young athletes’ success rate as well as your businesses ability to attract new clients.
Tags: sports, youth, training, coaching, brian, grasso
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