Is Your Young Athlete Ready To Start Serious Training? Children gradually gain skill, balance, coordination, and strength through unstructured play. At some point we add structured sports to the mix and increase the focus on certain types of movement and strength (shooting baskets, hitting baseballs, sprinting 100 meters, etc.). But at what point should children…
Summer Nutrition Tips for Youth and Teen Athletes Conventional wisdom would say summer is the time when kids eat the healthiest and have the lowest risk of gaining weight. After all, it’s sunny and warm outside, kids are playing or going to camps during the day, and all the best fruits and vegetables are in…
How to Teach Accountability In A Positive Way Running sprints for being late to practice. A “no-excuses allowed” policy. Giving equal amounts of critique to every player on the team. In terms of sports, being accountable is often thought of in punitive contexts like these. But accountability can be taught in ways that don’t involve…
5 Ways Youth Sports Coaches Can Encourage Teamwork While we praise youth sports as a great way to develop teamwork, figuring out how to actually teach it isn’t always obvious as a coach. Preaching the importance of working together often falls on deaf ears at the youth level, as it’s the kind of advice that…