3 Recovery Tips For Youth Athletes For youth athletes, post-game recovery routines are just as important as pre-game ones. After the final whistle, a focus on re-fueling, resting, and mixing things up allows athletes to recover for their next game or season, safely.
Youth Sport Recovery: Sleep More, Train Less In sports, it’s easy to fall prey to the bogus mindset of ‘more is more’: that the number of hours of hard work an athlete puts into their sports, the exponentially better their skills will become. But research has repeatedly shown that scheduled periods of time for rest…
Recovery During Sports Tournaments Day and weekend-long tournaments are a staple of modern youth sport, especially in soccer, lacrosse, baseball, and basketball. But there’s a reason these multiple-games-in-a-day events aren’t common beyond the youth level: they take a toll on athletes’ bodies, and the more an athlete plays in a fatigued state the more vulnerable…