As far as athletes are concerned, there are only two seasons in a year: the in-season and the off-season. There is one major mistake that youth athletes make every year — they overemphasize sport-specific, in-season type training year-round and don’t put nearly enough emphasis on strength and conditioning for youth
In today’s day and age there is no shortage of information and data surrounding health, fitness, and working out. The problem is that this abundance of information has also led to an abundance of misinformation. This is especially true when it comes to training youth athletes in the weight room.
When training athletes, or even the general population, a common, desirable adaptation is increased power output. In order to understand how to train for power, we first have to understand exactly what power is. The equation for power in the context of athletics is: P = force x velocity Force
For the most part, we all know that early sport specialization is bad for athletes. And yet, we still see youth athletes as young as 10 and under signing up for prospect clinics and camps where they are tracking 40-yard dashes, jump heights, and throwing speeds/distances, all to tell athletes
When you work with high-level athletes, like D1 college athletes, or pros, there are a lot of things you can play with, there are a lot of things you can do and experiment with, and there’s a lot of variety you can have in training because chances are, these higher