Kids anxious or antsy? At-Home PE Primer to the rescue!
Regular workouts ease depression and lift mood according to studies performed on adults, but regular exercise may be even more important to the health and mental well-being of children. Especially now, while kids are stuck at home with parents who are struggling to deliver homeschool lessons, a jolt of fun physical activity may be just what […]
8 Ways to Pump Up Your At-Home Workout
Why are at-home workouts so much harder than team training and group classes? Because there is: No schedule or called practice time insisting you show up. No one counting your reps or yelling at you to stay with it. No peer pressure to shame you into keeping the pace. No one to follow when you […]
While we wait, we move: Cherry picker
Do this slowly and with good core form and you’ll have solid hamstrings, strong abs and great balance. Let’s keep moving!
While we wait, we move: Lateral jump (video)
If you are sidelined at the moment and looking for ways to keep active and injury free, incorporate some Fit2Finish training into your routine. Be sure to keep the healthy BBB position (Bend your knees, Be on the balls of your feet, Balanced with your head up) for every activity. Give this a try! Find […]
5 reasons why the pro’s never skip warm-up and neither should you
Pro baseball players in balmy Florida for spring training and NFL players in temperature-controlled domes all still go through carefully scripted warm up routines before they train and play. Why, when they’re already sweating? Because warm-up has surprisingly less to do with increasing temperature and more to do with ensuring good performance. Here are the […]
The Mature Athlete: We Can’t Defeat Age, but We Can Put Up A Darned Good Fight
Once an athlete always an athlete, but that doesn’t mean that getting older won’t slow us down a bit. It will, and that’s a tough pill for active people to swallow. Maybe that pill won’t taste quite so sour when we realize the physical changes we can’t control as they are ushered in over an […]
How to make your dynamic warm-up into an ACL injury prevention warm-up
Dynamic warm-ups are the norm for teams getting ready to play, but they’re not enough to address the high risk for ACL injuries that exists for female high school athletes today. To do that, we need to include ACL injury prevention exercises. There is strong evidence that well-structured ACL injury prevention warm- ups work. They […]
Prevention Programs Reduce ACL Injuries by > 50%
Neuromuscular injury prevention training programs have been shown to reduce non-contact and indirect-contact ACL injuries by more than 50%. This percentage jumps to as high as 88% for comprehensive programs designed for the highest risk populations — young female athletes who participate in jumping and cutting sports. Recent meta-analyses of various injury prevention programs identified […]
7 Keys to Coaching Millennial Athletes
Guest post today by Maia Fletcher. Millennials got you surrounded? Yep, they’ve taken over the place. In fact, this year they’ll surpass the Baby Boomers as the largest generation in America. To connect with them we need to recognize, says guest blogger Maia Fletcher, that our athletes in their 20’s and 30’s occupy a unique […]
Play to Win: Our World Cup Champions Showed us How
Wow, what a run the US Women’s Soccer Team made to their 4th World Cup Championship! They were exciting, inspiring, motivating, and … provoking. Before the blazing images lose their luster, I want to remember what their efforts have sparked in this old soul, slightly past her soccer prime. No, I can’t hope to imitate […]