Strength and conditioning for younger athletes has gained more and more popularity over the past few years, thanks to a better understanding of the benefits that appropriate training can elicit. Just over 4 weeks ago, I started working with a fantastic group of youth athletes from York Athletics Club, aged between 11 – 14…
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Why is youth strength and conditioning crucial? The benefits of a quality strength and conditioning (S&C) programme, along with sound coaching, are clear for most to see when it comes to coaching adults. Research and practice have demonstrated time and time again, improvements in strength, power, speed, coordination, mobility, movement efficiency…the list goes on.…
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[sgmb id=”1″]Ollie from UYRUFC performing a fantastic POWER exercise, the power clean and hang clean!
Earlier this year, I received a message through my website from a lady who asked if I could help with training her 12 year old son, Joe. Nothing out of the ordinary there but as I read on, I found that Joe was suffering from a condition called Spastic Cerebral Palsy (CP). For those who…
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08/04/14: The Easter holidays have arrived and we have completed six weeks of Strength and Conditioning training at Harrogate Grammar school! The pupils have been great and worked really hard! All of these sessions were aimed at improving a range of qualities relating to sport including movement, linear speed, lateral speed and multi-directional movement. In…
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12/03/14: OK, so we are now 3 weeks into the Strength and Conditioning, after school classes with a mixture of year 9 and 10 pupils from Harrogate Grammar School. Plenty of progress since we started and there are new faces joining the group every week! For the first few sessions, we’ve been working on basic…
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26/02/14: I have recently started a ‘Strength and Conditioning’, after school class with a mixture of year 9 and 10 pupils from Harrogate Grammar School. The long term aim of these types of sessions is to develop physical competency in movement, strength, speed and agility. These are essential qualities in almost all sports and the…
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