Team Fit Total Athlete

01/16/2018

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GET BACK TO THE BASICS......

Coaching and correcting a Squat in 2 Reps.

Trainers, Coaches & Parents. There are more and more injuries each year in youth athletics. Youth sports are at an all time competitive high. Our athletes are grinding year round with very little breaks. Sports are overlapping and kids are getting injured younger and younger each year. We have gotten so wrapped up in sport specific training that we are forgetting to coach and teach our kids the basics and master the Foundational movements. We have got to get back to coaching the basic fundamentals.

Here is one of our Athletes doing a Squat Assessment.

As you can see in the video below, before she even took her first rep, her eyes were looking to the floor. When our eyes go down, our body forward and down.

As she squats during her first rep, her entire upper body goes down. She collapses at the waist and nearly touches her chest to her quads. This athlete has very good hip mobility. This squat is just lack of coaching and being taught how to squat properly.

As she comes back up, you can see that her eyes are still pointed down. Her chin is tucked.

The fix was easy. We coached her to keep her head up, eyes forward and chin neutral. Push her hips back, keep her core tight and engaged and drive through the heels on the way up...... THAT'S IT.

Her second rep was 100% better. Her weight is no longer coming forward. Her back is flat, chin is neutral, eyes forward and her weight is on her heels.

Our Athletes are smart, they are athletic and they will learn fast if we start coaching them the right way. GET BACK TO THE BASICS and let's start preventing injuries.

01/15/2018

Having been a Pro Wrestler for a long time, I'm almost on board here. Not really sure how this even happened.

Regardless, THIS is why you practice the basics and the Foundation even as a Pro Athlete. Keep your head up and tackle like they taught you in P*e Wee and you are off the the NFC Championship.

Williams ( #43) on the New Orleans Saints DODGES tackling Diggs to lose the game?.. on purpose?

01/09/2018

I don't usually like to vent out loud. However, Things have got to change. Coaches and Trainers have got to wake the hell up and get back to the basics and start building the foundation. There are too many kids getting too many injuries, way too young.

PARENTS: No matter how great your athlete is at a specific sport, IF they are not trained properly and they do not have a strong foundation, THEY WILL GET HURT.

Here are the FACTS:
1. There are an average of 200,000 ACL tears/year in the U.S
2. Females are up to 9 times more likely to tear an ACL
3. High school athletes account for an estimated 2 million injuries and 500,000 doctor visits and 30,000 hospitalizations each year.
4. Children ages 5 to 14 account for nearly 40 percent of all sports-related injuries treated in hospitals. On average the rate and severity of injury increases with a child's age.
5. Overuse injuries are responsible for nearly half of all sports injuries to middle and high school students.
6. By age 13, 70 percent of kids drop out of youth sports.
7. Since 2000 there has been a fivefold increase in the number of serious shoulder and elbow injuries among youth baseball, volleyball and softball players.

And on and on and on.............................

Just because an athlete is a single sport Volleyball player, can someone explain to me why they are not training the upper body, let alone anything above the waist??

Are the shoulders and upper body strength not an important factor in training a volleyball athlete??

If you are not training the shoulders, do you think that that athlete will NOT experience shoulder pain??

If we train the lower body ONLY and increase the athletes vertical jump then that means the shoulders and upper body strength is good to go??

Trainers have got to STOP putting 9,10,11,12 year old kids on top of a Bosu Ball (Dome Down), putting weights in their hands and making them do exercises because you think it looks cool. I can't remember the last time my college strength coach put us on a Bosu Ball to build Power and Strength. The ONLY thing you have accomplished is making yourself look like a JACKASS.

Coaches have GOT to start being smart and training SMART. 60% of Power comes from Core. Shoulders to Hips, PERIOD. As boring as it may be for them, you MUST incorporate Mobility in your programming.

Athletes get hurt, go to rehab, become Pain free and then go right back to the same damn grind. So that means they wont get hurt again? Wrong, the chances are probably greater.

BE SMART. No matter how boring you think it may be, GET BACK TO COACHING THE BASICS AND BECOME THE SOLUTION AND STOP CONTRIBUTING TO THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!!

01/08/2018

Increasing the percentage of elementary school children in the United States who participate in 25 minutes of physical activity three times a week from 32 percent to 50 percent would avoid $21.9 billion in medical costs and lost wages over the course of their lifetimes, new research suggests.

01/04/2018

Capped off an amazing winter break camp tonight. Really enjoyed meeting and coaching all of the news faces and parents. Always appreciate the opportunity to coach new kids.

Summer is always full of sport camps, training sessions, sport seasons and conditioning. Winter break is about the only time where our kids actually get a break from the grind for a few days and they NEED to relax, let loose and have fun. Some may not like that philosophy and that is ok. They are still kids FIRST.

Break is over and it's time to get back to building the foundation, getting stronger and getting better. 2018 will be a great year here at Team Fitness' Total Athlete Program. We will be starting a Junior Foundational Program for those kids/athletes who may be a bit younger and just getting into sport or for kids who just need to get moving. Check out our website: www.teamfitteam.com for more details.

Looking forward to getting back to the grind next week. It's GO TIME......💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

01/04/2018

Want to give a HUGE shout out to my man Matthew "MC" Crane. Matthew had PERFECT attendance over Christmas break camp. Way to get after it buddy. No school, No problem. Definitely worth the shout out.

01/02/2018

Excellent start to 2018. Getting back to the grind and getting ready to get back to sport. We covered Upper & Lower Body Speed Mechanics, Mobility, Linear Speed, Strength Assessments & Conditioning. Ready to get back to the grind and get to work.

01/02/2018

Happy New Year Year Everyone. We will be back on camp schedule tomorrow. 10:15AM & 6:30PM. We will be assessing, strength training and getting ready to get back to sport this week.

01/01/2018

Just a reminder, there will be no sessions today. We will be on regular schedule tomorrow and Wednesday.
Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!

12/22/2017

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Nearly 30 million children and adolescents participate in youth sports in the United States.

High school athletes account for an estimated 2 million injuries and 500,000 doctor visits and 30,000 hospitalizations each year.

More than 3.5 million kids under age 14 receive medical treatment for sports injuries each year

Children ages 5 to 14 account for nearly 40 percent of all sports-related injuries treated in hospitals.

On average the rate and severity of injury increases with a child's age

Overuse injuries are responsible for nearly half of all sports injuries to middle and high school students

Although 62 percent of organized sports-related injuries occur during practice, one-third of parents do not have their children take the same safety precautions at practice that they would during a game

Twenty percent of children ages 8 to 12 and 45 percent of those ages 13 to 14 will have arm pain during a single youth baseball season
According to the CDC, more than half of all sports injuries in children are preventable.

By age 13, 70 percent of kids drop out of youth sports. The top three reasons: adults, coaches and parents

Among athletes ages 5 to 14, 28 percent of percent of football players, 25 percent of baseball players, 22 percent of soccer players, 15 percent of basketball players, and 12 percent of softball players were injured while playing their respective sports.

References:

JS Powell, KD Barber Foss, 1999. Injury patterns in selected high school sports: a review of the 1995-1997 seasons. J Athl Train. 34: 277-84.
Safe Kids USA Campaign Web site. 2009.
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. 2009.
Preserving the Future of Sport: From Prevention to Treatment of Youth Overuse Sports Injuries. AOSSM 2009 Annual Meeting Pre-Conference Program. Keystone, Colorado.