The Elite Agility Sports Forum

Engaging with your child while they are playing sports is a great way to support their athletic development, build a strong parent-child relationship, and help them enjoy the experience even more. Here are some tips on how to do this effectively: 1. Be Supportive, Not Overbearing: - Encourage you

Imagine you’re 12 years old again...But you’re short, chubby, uncoordinated, and slow. You’re constantly losing races to your friends, being picked last in gym class. Constantly at the butt-end of jokes and being embarrassed... You’re nowhere NEAR the athlete you want to be What would be you

Training just sport-specifics is dangerous for ANY athlete. It might seem counterintuitive… But training for general athleticism is better than doing sport-specifics any day. Why? Because every athlete experiences some kind of pattern overload… > Baseball athletes throwing and pitching with one

Agility training is a great way to get the kids to not only be active but also develop their bodies athletically. Agility training exercises can help incorporate healthy habits into the young athletes, and teach them proper body positioning, coordination, and hand-eye. The best age to start is 2 ye

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As a Strength and Conditioning Coach, I'm always asked by parents "What can I do for my son/daughter to be more successful in sports down the road?" or "When is the right time to start training them?" In this video, I go through those answers, and the biggest mistakes parents can make, and what can

When you go into a game afraid to fail, you’re more likely to play timidly and scared. You tiptoe around your performance, terrified of making even the slightest mistake. But in order for you to perform your best, there needs to be a level of trust that is only present when you accept the possibi

Tommy Reynolds: Poly Tech - Football - Center - 6'2 - 220lbs J.J. Spence: Middletown - Football - QB ( 12 years old)

Heavy lifting isn’t enough for athletes. It’s absolutely KEY for athletes to transfer that newfound strength into explosiveness. But how do you train strength in a way that feeds explosiveness? Simple… Move down the force-velocity curve. If you don’t know, the force-velocity curve is the relati

At this age, your child is still growing. However, this is an excellent time to begin the phase of athletic development more thoroughly. When your child was younger, it was good for them to learn how to have fun. In addition, like untamed horses, your child was running around developing their cardio

I get this question all the time. And the answer is kind of strange… Because technically, no. But when you build strength the right way, you lay the groundwork for speed, vertical, agility, and overall explosiveness. Most guys only build static strength. And building static strength is the same

Mental Health & Athletes Approximately 46.6 million people are living with mental illness in the US. That’s 1 in 5 adults who will be living with a mental health condition at some point in their lives. Many manage symptoms with therapy, medication, eating a healthy diet or exercise. Research has sho

WEIGHTED VEST WORKOUTS – PROS & CONS Weighted vest workouts can be a valuable tool in holistic wellness programs and in natural bodybuilding training programs. Health and wellness coaching certified trainers encourage the use of weighted vest workouts for the extra challenge it brings to everyday

Top Ten Reasons for the Fear of Failure Reason #1: Perfectionism Having the desire to continually push yourself to become better and better is okay, only if it is done in a healthy manner. However, if you tend to self-deprecate and hold yourself to unrealistically high standards, that’s where tr

ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Sports Act. Living, 01 February 2022 Objectives: To examine mental health problems among elite athletes in a student population, compared to the general student population, and to explore the association between weekly hours of training across mental health indica

I want to share with you the #1 strategy that I have used with my clients in the last year to build routines, habits, and the personal development processes they need to win This strategy is built around my 4 Step Goal Formula. STEP #1. Set an intention STEP #2. Schedule when you will execute on tha