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Athletic Testing and Promotion Results

By Coach Dave

There are no words to accurately describe the energy, emotion, and utter athleticism that reigned over Athletic Revolution this past Saturday! We are so proud of all of you! 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 …

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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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AR Athletes Achieve New Rank!

By Coach Dave

**Champion Promotion** Congratulations to the following athletes for successfully achieving  higher rank on Saturday March 19th, 2011. Level 1 Phase 1 – White Jacob Lyons Nick Gillespie Jake Donnelly Kyle Gibson Cole Nichols Will LeClair Phase 2 – Orange Alexis Rynning Andrew Gleason Chris Wesinger Anthony Sulfaro Aidan Maggiore Level 2 Phase 1 White Trevor …

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Youth Fitness Testing and Assessment [Video]

By Coach Dave

Testing and assessing young athletes should not begin with adjusted 1 rep max or 3 rep max in the squat and or bench press. Collecting data on a young athlete who is beginning an athletic development program should not be be based on how many push ups, sit ups and pull ups they can perform …

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Testing Young Athletes – AR Style!

By Coach Dave

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 …

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Youth Fitness Assessment Day

By Coach Dave

The date has been set: Saturday, March 2oth 2010 is the first Athletic Revolution Champions Assessment Day From 10:00 am to 1:00 pm a group of Athletic Revolution athletes will display their athleticism in front of friends, family and neighbors. This is a big deal and here is why…   Til next time, ~Coach Dave …

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Testing Youth Fitness and Sports Performance

By Coach Dave

All to often youth fitness programs assess their young athletes by measuring flexibility, strength, speed, power etc while using adult protocols including 1 rep max tests (or adjusted 1 rep max), sit and reach, shuttle runs and vertical jump…to name a few. Watch this video to find out why this approach does NOT work when working …

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