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Athletic Testing and Promotion Day
**Champion Promotion** Congratulations to the following athletes for successfully achieving higher rank on Saturday September 17th, 2011. Testing, evaluating and assessing young athletes is and should be a continual process. Those terms are all synonymous with each other. One overlooked commonality they have is that they are largely misunderstood. All to often the concept …
Growing youth dependence on technology
Coaches Corner by Dave Gleason Growing youth dependence on technology As seen in Wicked Local Pembroke and the Pembroke Mariner Children all over the US are returning to school next week, leaving houses empty for perhaps the first time since summer began. Recent research indicates that the number of children who remain indoors and …
Decreasing 40 times in young athletes
Here is a video I recently shot for the IYCA (International Youth Conditioning Association). Our mission engulfs making change far beyond the reach of my facility here in Pembroke. Coaching a young athlete takes much more that drills or practicing a specific activity such as the 40 yard dash in an effort to get a …
ACL Injuries: Trending in the wrong direction
As see in the OLD COLONY MEMORIAL newspaper and Wicked Local Plymouth Trending in the Wrong Direction ACL injuries in female athletes on the rise PLYMOUTH — On a recent Saturday night, the U.S. Women’s National Team debuted its 2011 World Cup team in a pre-World Cup friendly match against Japan. Less than 30 …
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1 Million Children Hire Personal Trainers
Coaches Corner by Dave Gleason As seen in the Pembroke Mariner and WickedLocal.com 1 Million Children Hire Personal Trainers According to multiple sources, including MSNBC and Newsweek, more than 1 million children hire a personal trainer every year in the United States. The rate of youth obesity and the increased competitive nature of youth sports …
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Training athletes from the back forward
Most training programs for young athletes focus all of their attention on the big pushers and fancy drills. Bench pressing, squatting, high speed treadmills and the like are the mainstay of many sports performance center. These ways of helping a young athlete become better are ill advised and not optimal. The posterior chain is a …
Balance Training for 10-13 year olds
Core strength and balance are important components of successful sports performance. Training these elements in young athletes can be fun and challenging or boring and time consuming. Static and dynamic balance can effectively be trained by partnering young athletes together and using an implement to “battle” for balance supremacy. At Athletic Revolution I will use …
Youth Sports Burnout
Coaches Corner by Dave Gleason Youth Sports Burnout Around the age of 6 (sometimes younger) our children begin to explore recreational sports. The experience of playing youth sports often continues throughout high school. Soccer, basketball, football, lacrosse, hockey and lacrosse are extremely popular. In a recent article by the Journal of the …
High School Girls Soccer Training Program
Girls Soccer Strength and Conditioning for Grades 9-12 At Athletic Revolution our goal is not performance. PERFORMANCE is the OUTCOME! There are certain training principles that are crucial to the short and long term success of any young athlete. Never more important is the focus on injury resistance and movement skill be addressed than when …
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Pembroke Mariner – Is Fitness Bootcamp Worth Its Weight?
Coaches Corner By Dave Gleason Is Fitness Boot Camp Worth Its Weight? As spring has now arrived with the hope and thoughts of warm weather with bathing suit season to follow, there are countless numbers of people once again looking into a faster way to shed pounds and get in shape. …
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