youth fitness

US Congress Declares Pizza a Vegetable??

By Coach Dave

United States Congress Declares Pizza Sauce a Vegetable But All is Not Lost in Pembroke   Pembroke, November 21, 2011 – Congress recently unveiled a new bill which includes language that will allow a serving of pizza to be considered a vegetable if spread with two tablespoons of tomato paste. The bill would deny funding …

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Youth Winter Sports Speed Clinic

By Coach Dave

YOUTH Winter Sport Speed Clinic Speed Clinic: Friday November 11th 10:00am Boys and Girls u10-u12 ONLY $29.00 Developing game changing speed is a skill.  Speed, agility and quickness can be learned just like shooting, dribbling and passing, skating, etc. Take your game to the next level with our cutting edge programs specifically designed for superior …

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High School Winter Sport Speed Clinic

By Coach Dave

High School Winter Sport Speed Clinic Speed Clinic: Friday November 11th 11:00am Boys and Girls 14+ ONLY $29.00 Developing game changing speed is a skill.  Speed, agility and quickness can be learned just like shooting, dribbling and passing, skating, etc. Take your game to the next level with our cutting edge programs specifically designed for …

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The Best Sports Performance Workout EVER?

By Coach Dave

Youth fitness and athletic development is much more that merely a program to make kids tired. WATCH THIS to see what I mean!   See you soon! Coach Dave . Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Athletic Testing and Promotion Day

By Coach Dave

**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 …

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Growing youth dependence on technology

By Coach Dave

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 …

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Decreasing 40 times in young athletes

By Coach Dave

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 …

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1 Million Children Hire Personal Trainers

By Coach Dave

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

By Coach Dave

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 …

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Balance Training for 10-13 year olds

By Coach Dave

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 …

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