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Speed and Agility fun at Youth Soccer Camp
Last week we were very blessed to be a part of World Cup Soccer Camp in Pembroke.
This outstanding youth soccer camp is and has been run by Dean Sneider since 1997. Dean philosophy is character and effort first, soccer skills second. Young athletes leave this week with smiles on their faces and new soccer skills …
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Preparing for the X-Games
Pembroke Resident Going for Gold in 2010 X-Games in L.A.
Nora Vasconcellos Prepares for the Big Stage at Local Youth Sports Training Facility
July 2, 2010 – Competing in the Dew Tour, at the famed Boston Garden, Nora Vasconcellos was in the company of the greats of men and women’s skateboarding.
Fitting in practice time in Rye, New …
Athletic Development and Youth Performance Testing
If you have not seen the video or heard the feedback about our recent testing day, I have a very special treat for you.
Matt Travis is a Physical Education Teacher and a Certified Youth Fitness Specialist in Massachusetts. Matt attended our testing day as a bystander and someone who is also looking to make a …
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Testing Young Athletes – AR Style!
This past Saturday we celebrated with our 2nd Testing and Promotion Day.
It was inspirational, emotional, impressive and joyous.
We are changing youth sports performance testing and youth fitness testing. No longer will young athletes have to achieve just for the sake of achieving. No longer will they have to be subjected to 1 rep max tests, …
Injuries to Young Athletes on the Rise
There are several reasons why we opened Athletic Revolution.
None more important than helping reduce injuries in young athletes.
Is our goal to reduce injury by helping our athletes become…
Stronger?
More mobile and flexible?
Faster?
More proficient when moving?
More aware of skill development and how it relates to better athleticism?
Yes, yes, yes , yes and yes.
What is never mentioned in our …
Youth Sports Specific Training
The following video is uncut…unedited…raw footage of two 5 year old boys playing at Athletic Revolution as they await pick up.
They were left to their own accord to play with everything in the facility excluding the weights. I sat at the very desk I am typing this post from with a watchful eye to see what …
Sports Performance Training at 5 Years Old
Sometimes a video can speak a thousand words…with practically no words spoken.
View this video to see how through a process of discovery…5 year old Andrew teaches himself to jump rope.
Far too often kids are overcoached.
Have you seen over coaching?
Have you done it?
What are your thoughts…I want to know.
Til next time,
~Coach Dave
New England Revolution…at Athletic Revolution
Make no mistake.
Athletic Revolution is the only facility dedicated to youth athletic development and youth fitness – and we are backed by the ONLY organization in the world that educates trainers and coaches in youth fitness and sports performance training (International Youth Conditioning Association).
If you have read our other posts or watched our videos you …
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3 Myths of Coaching Youth Sports
Here is an article that I wrote that was just published in the Pembroke Mariner & Reporter:
3 Myths of Coaching Youth Sports
How to Coach Your Team to Success
Being a coach of a youth sports team puts you in a position to make an indelible impact on the children you are coaching. This is true if …
Youth Fitness and Sports Performance Advice…
The following is an excerpt from World Re-known Strength Coach Mike Boyle. Mike is highly respected and quite literally considered the best in the WORLD at what he does – prepare athletes to reach their absolute best. When the best trainers and strength coaches have a question…they go to Mike.
Recently Coach Boyle was asked a …
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