Sleep and the Youth Athlete (Video)

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After the success and positive feedback of the last animated video on Relative Age Effect in Youth Sport, I decided to continue with a series on “The Youth Athlete”. This series will focus on a number of issues that coaches often encounter when working with young athletes. These videos will focus primarily on educating coaches, parents […]

"Weight training isn't safe" – myths every sport parent needs to know

Posted 2 CommentsPosted in Applied coaching, biological maturation, Coach development, Long term athlete development, myths, Myths series, Parents, Soccer, Youth strength and conditioning

Unfortunately there are a number of untruths that continue to negatively influence youth athletes, parents and coaches. In this series, I am to address a number of them which continue to hamper the progression of youth athletes to full senior level performance…