Posted on September 4, 2009 by chriskolba
Actual Question: Is it OK for 8 – 10 year old kids to participate in Triathlons?
Reply from Brian Grasso (Founder and CEO of International Youth Conditioning Assoc.)
While I am 100% heartened by virtually any activity a young person chooses to engage in, it is important to be careful how we direct their efforts in terms [...]
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Posted on September 5, 2008 by chriskolba
Ladders arent just for climbing. Great for fitness, sport, youth training and just plain fun for anyone. Variety is the spice of everything. Keep your workouts fresh. These could be done as workout by itself or maybe do 1 pattern between sets of lower body exercise and do the leg patterns [...]
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Posted on July 25, 2008 by chriskolba
One of the many problems with youth sports today is early specialization. This basically means that kids are pigeon holed into one sport at too early of an age. The consequences of this are the development of compensatory and faulty movement patterns, missing critical stages of development, increased likely hood of injury, inconsistant performance and [...]
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