World Cup women: free to play with fury
Once women can leave it all on the field, they are free to display their full arsenal. Just like men.
The simple solution to defeating acl injuries: teach healthy movement to our U-8s and U-10s!
To beat ACL injuries which are devastating our athletes in their teens and twenties, we have to train them to move healthier when they’re 8-14! Here’s how you can put that in place.
Five Simple Ways to Beat Overuse Injuries
Keep your players fresh and injury free by adding variety and changing things up. Here are some easy-to-implement ideas that will pay off big in healthy play and keeping injuries away.
Don’t let Pickleball Injuries Spoil the Fun
Play better pickleball using these Fit2Finish precautions and the game itself to help you improve and compete well.
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!
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 […]
The Secret to Beating ACL Injury
ACL injuries should be on the decline since we know that ACL injury prevention programs like the FIFA 11+ significantly reduce the risk of this injury. But instead, they’re on the rise — especially among high school athletes and particularly among high school female athletes in running, jumping and cutting sports like soccer, basketball, field […]
What’s Gone Wrong in Youth Sports? Error #1 There’s Too Much Adulting
Up or Out! That’s the model in play today, says Aspen Institute’s Tom Farrey, kicking off the 2018 Project Play Summit. A few kids move up but most are out: dropping out because it’s not fun, selected out because they’re “not good enough” or sitting out, either because they’re 2nd or 3rd string or because they’re […]
16 Action Items for Healthy Sport, Fitness and Life
The world’s leaders in exercise science and sports medicine met in Minneapolis at the 65th annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine. The result: BIG news and reliable, evidence-based recommendations for physical activity, health and the reduction of injury. Here are my top 16 headlines with news you can use. Knee Injury Prevention ACL injury […]