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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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Coaching from the sidelines
Coaches Corner by Dave Gleason Coaching from the Sidelines? “Youth sports are big business selling big dreams. And, the denial runs deep among sports parents.” At least, that’s the word from Aisha Sultan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in an article that is garnering national attention. If your children are involved in sports, you’ve probably …
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 …
Pembroke Mariner & Reporter: Train Like a Pro; Are we hurting our kids?
Coaches Corner Training Like a Pro; Are we hurting our kids? By Dave Gleason There is a malady that is running a muck in the hyper competitive world of youth sports. The well intentioned and yet ill conceived notion of “more is better” that modern society places on young athletes in an effort to be …
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Every Sports Parent’s Nightmare
Over Specialization in Youth Sports By Brian Grasso You’ve heard the term ‘Sport-Specific-Training’ before, correct? Well, let me give you the cold hard facts… It doesn’t exist. Especially not with young athletes. When working with preadolescent and high school athletes, the undeniable reality is that we are tending to an organism that is in …
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 …
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 …
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