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Guaranteed Young Athlete Success in Bloomington

Your Force Fitness/Bloomington Athletic Revolution is all about ‘long-term young athlete development’.

Now, what does that mean?

And why is it the very best approach for your young athlete?

Well… That’s easy:

It is very standard for Coaches and Training Facilities to both expect and ‘sell’ parents on the fact that the young athletes in their care will become decidedly better in only 6 or 8 weeks’ worth of training.

And in fact, they’re correct in saying so.

But not because their training system is somehow superior or because they possess unique talents as a Coach, quite simply, it’s because human beings are adaptive machines that alter (become better) under the strain of applied demand (training).

This is especially true for young people in the age bracket of 6 – 18.  This time of life represents a literal coming of age with respect to maturation and athletic ability.  The Central Nervous System is learning to master the art of movement, bones are growing more dense and muscles are becoming naturally longer and more powerful.

You could, quite literally, ask a 15 year old soccer player to run stairs 3 times per week for 6 weeks and show improvements to both their speed and power output capacity.  That doesn’t mean running stairs is an efficient training style, it just means that the human body is designed to accommodate the stress it is placed under by getting faster and stronger.

In short – with young athletes, EVERYTHING works… But what works best?

In response to the point raised in the ‘Mistake #2’ title, we need to look beyond trying to get young athletes better right now.  They will get better as a natural result of training – that’s the point I made above.

What are focus must be on is the long-term gains that will make them better (optimally better) over time.  Look at it from this angle:

Could your child pass Grade 2 in 6 weeks?

Could they obtain a Masters Degree before the graduated from High School?

In academics, there is a need to progress through a systemic process of knowledge acquisition.  When done well and in proper sequence, optimal intelligence is gained and your child as the ability (although perhaps not desire!) to become a world-class Rocket Scientist.  Without the process or long-term sequence, their ability to excel in anything would be greatly diminished.

Stop by Force Fitness/Bloomington Athletic Revolution anytime to see just what I mean.

Our address is:

3205 W Fullerton Pike, Bloomington, In 47403

Or, call me at your convenience 812-822-0636
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Speed Training For Bloomington Young Athletes

Speed and Agility are very important to the success of any young athlete…

… But most Coaches and Trainers make mistakes when it comes to training for speed.

Here’s what I mean:

It is customary to see young athletes being taught and drilled on how to run as fast as possible in a straight line.

Coaches spend hours teaching the mechanics of ‘linear speed’.  Arm drive, hip drive, ankle push, forward lean – all the usual suspects.  Whether on a high speed treadmill, gymnasium floor or football field, anywhere you go, you’ll likely see Coaches teaching the techniques of running fast in a straight line moving forward.

Now, I don’t really have any fundamental issue with respect to this style of training.  I could (and will) argue that virtually every sport is played in a non-linear format and so spending time on the mechanics of an exercise that a young athlete won’t typically ever need in a sporting situation is paramount to a large waste of time.

But young athletes (as you will read later) need to be exposed to as much training stimulus as possible – in all formats.  In that, no training style should ever be considered ‘not worth the time’ when we’re talking about preadolescent or high school aged athletes.

But the fact that linear speed training is both taught and drilled INSTEAD of more functional and useable styles of speed and agility work is where I draw the concern.

Football, baseball, soccer, basketball, volleyball – you name the sport.  Very seldom does a young athlete need to sprint forward with proper form; and they almost never hit ‘top-end-speed’ for any length of time.  If you look at any of the sports from a positional standpoint, that reality is even less likely.

Sports are multi-directional and varying in speed.  Young athletes must be taught how to move efficiently and quickly at angles (not just forward) and be ingrained with the knowledge and ability of how to decelerate (stop) and shift (change directions) as fast as possible.

Sport speed isn’t about straight lines.  It’s about angular quickness and the ability to re-accelerate.

Come on in and enjoy a complementary ‘2 Weeks Free’ of training at our Force Fitness/ Bloomington Athletic Revolution and see just how much faster your young athletes are going to become.

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