Training the Youth Athlete
Youth athletes need more attention and individualization than typical athletes. Use these tips to help them thrive during their development so they can crush it in their prime.
Engage-Inform-Get Warm: An Effective Warm-up for Recreational Youth Athl...
Physical prep will take your athletes only so far. Here’s a 3-check process to increase participation, inspiration, and safety.
A Strength and Conditioning Program for Youth Swimming
As with training any new client, there is a trial and error process to see what is effective and what isn’t. In this case, the training system I have put in place for my swimmers has supported them in breaking multiple national records in various events.
Safe Sport Act Update: Keep Your Gym Up to Code
Gym owners: Here's a quick reminder that the Safe Sport Act will extend to your businesses starting December 1st, 2020. Not sure about the requirements? Listen to this Two-Brain Business podcast episode for a refresher course.
Programming for Athletes — The Middle School Athlete: Grades 7-8, Ages 1...
These athletes undergo rapid physical development, increased workloads, new mental health challenges, and hormonal changes. As they hit peak height velocity, it’s vital to properly manage their training.
Project Jonah: The Final Report
This four-year journey following the development of a young athlete has finally come to a close, with many lessons learned.
The Irrational Immediate Gratification Society
Young athletes and parents of young athletes, listen up. There’s no powder or program to take you from Pee-wee Herman to Phil Heath overnight.
3 Youth Training Articles Coaches and Parents Should Read
3 Articles from around the web that will change your mind on how you feel about youth sports
WATCH: A Better Way to Train High School Athletes
A year-round training solution for the multi-sport athletes.
The Letter Every Volunteer Coach Want to Send to Parents
I’m the one who answered the call when the league said they didn’t have enough coaches
Late Bloomers: John O'Sullivan's Relative Age Effect
Simply put, the “Relative Age Effect” is the correlation between arbitrary age cutoffs in sports and the statistically high success ratio of kids with birthdates within a few months of those cutoffs.
Travel Baseball
Who really is invested in elite youth sports teams? Is it the kids or their parents? - Tim Keown
John O'Sullivan's Five Reasons Kids Quit Sports
We don’t simply lose the kids who cannot make varsity; we lose many of the best athletes on our teams.
Coaching Parents on The Reality of Their Child's Skill
Who needs more coaching when it comes to youth sports? You guessed it.
Changing the Game Author Explains The Problems in Youth Sports
John O'Sullivan knocks it out of the park again with the four biggest problems in Youth Sports.
Less Work, More Results in High School Athletes
Stop burying your athletes into the ground and do only as much training as needed for optimal results.
Lee Taft's Top Priorities For Youth Sports Development
If left unattended the loudest and most demanding parents or youth coach will take over the identity of a youth league. When a director listens to parents or coaches who say they won't be involved unless the score is kept, teams can press, the best players can all be put on one team, etc... the league will go wrong.
LISTEN: Changing the Game in Youth Sports
In the state of youth athletics, John O’Sullivan is the voice of reason amongst coaches, parents, and administrators.
The Goal of Physical Education: Moving to Learn Movement
When it comes to kids and exercise, schools need to step up and focus more on quality as well as quantity. And, says Dr. Gregory D. Myer, they need to promote activities that develop motor skills, socialization and fun.
Education to Entertainment: How Youth Sports Have Changed...for the Worse
Youth sports has become less a tool to educate children about sport and life, and more often a place where parents go to be entertained by their kids.
3 Reasons Athletes get Worse in the Summer
Health is the most important investment of all, and to place it in the hands of a competent Coach takes a little investigating.
What Video Games can Teach Youth Sports
They learned by doing, they played without fear, and they figured it out on their own terms, and at their own pace. They had fun!
Beyond the Point of Adaptation for Youth Sports
Do you really need to train your youth athletes like Bulgarian weightlifters?
Lessons for Parents, Coaches, and Players
Are players expected to display self control on the field if parents don't demonstrate it from the bleachers?
The Role of Athletics in Youth Development
Youth participation in athletics is more than just a pastime, it is a valuable resource for growth and positive development.
All-Star Parenting
Working with youth athletes has been an experience that has taught me several lessons.
Prepping the Youth Uber Athlete: Recollections of a Father-Coach from th...
I sometimes hear parents talk about how they don’t have the time to get involved in their children’s activities because of work.
Build More than Muscle and Strength in Your High School Weight Room
A structured off-season training program will do wonders for your in-season success.
How Adults Ruin Youth Sports
Like many of the readers of EliteFTS, my son is now old enough that we’re getting involved in organized sports.
Children Should Minor in all Sports and Major in None
The title says it all, which is a quote from Tom Myslinski, currently the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Robert Morris University in Pennsylvania. Every youth sports related newspaper or magazine article you read these days has children as young as 7-8 years-old playing organized year-round sports.
