How to solve the mental health crisis in young people, according to young people
If active sports are good for kids, why are so many of them dropping out, being selected out or sitting the bench because injury is keeping them out? That’s the issue I set out to address in my book, Fit2Finish: Keeping Your Soccer Players in the Game. Because the good sport can do for their […]
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.
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.
How to use your exercise ball to strengthen at home
Here are 7 simple ways to use your exercise ball for core-strengthening. Try doing 2 sets of 10-12 repetitions of each activity. Ready… GO!
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 […]
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 […]
The Most Powerful Advice I Ever Received: “Just because it failed doesn’t mean you’re a failure”
Just because it failed, doesn’t mean you’re a failure. I heard this for the first time when I was in my early 20’s. Having completed an arduous laboratory experiment which required many repetitions over weeks of work, I could draw a conclusion about my hypothesis: it was wrong. Trial after trial proved my result: negative. […]
5 Potential Danger Zones in the Young Athlete
Kids need a challenge but they also need special handling. Most people think, why? My kids are flexible, resilient, and young. They bounce back from anything thrown at them. Let’s throw it all at them! They can handle it. Not so fast. Why? Because they’re growing, and growing presents special challenges and unique demands. They’re not mini-adults […]
How to Say No to the Pressure Toward Early Specialization in Youth Sports
Focusing only on one sport, year-round, can increase kids’ risk of injury and burnout, according to the recent position paper on the dangers of sport specialization put out by the American Academy of Pediatrics. But the incidence of early specialization in so many of our youth sports continues, regardless of doctor’s orders. Physicians tell us that kids […]
