7 Reasons Youth Athletes Need To Strength Train
Your child or student has the right equipment, eats the right food, gets enough sleep, and attends practice regularly. And yet, he or she might still be at risk for physical injury. Our seven reasons why it is imperative that young athletes should strength train will give you the real scoop on a crucial activity that is often overlooked in children’s sports:
7. Preparing Children’s Bodies For Intense Sports Activity
Boy and girls are not born with the musculature and joints necessary to sustain intense and repetitive athletic activity—they have to ease into it. Strength training develops their musculoskeletal system and prepares it for the specific activities they will do in their sport.
6. Increasing Self-Esteem
Strength training not only prepares the child’s body for the athletic challenges ahead of him or her, but can instill added confidence. As the strength training continues there is an increase in ability, stamina, and performance—and has a visible impact a swell that gives added pride.
5. Preventing Overuse Injuries
Repetitive injuries are common among youth athletes and often the first signs aren’t even understood or acknowledged. Strength training developed for your child or student’s particular sport will make joints and muscles stronger and flexible over time to resist such injuries.
4. Improving Sports Performance
It’s sort of a no-brainer: added physical strength leads to better performance out on the field or in the court. But other bonuses to adding strength training to your child or student’s workout regimen includes increased flexibility and less time lost due to injuries.
3. Receiving Extra Physical Guidance And Care
Working with a strength training professional will give the child an extra layer of guidance regarding his or her current physical status—pinpointing any potential trouble spots that might come back to hurt him or her during the games ahead. An ounce of prevention is worth an pound of cure!
2. Building A Support Team For The Athlete
The strength trainer, coach, and fellow athletes can create a “super team” of support for the child, each bringing a particular skill and perspective to the table. This is crucial for not only peak physical performance but for a sense of camaraderie and emotional strength.
1. It’s A New Fun Skill To Enjoy
Learning the basics of strength training is, in a sense, a type of sport in and of itself. It adds to the diversity of the child’s skills and opens up new aspects of physical fitness and activities to absorb and enjoy. And in the end—it’s all about the joy and sense of accomplishment the activity brings!
IMPROVE ATHLETE PERFORMANCE WITH ATHLETE INTELLIGENCE
Don’t forget that you can also improve your sportsmanship with our Athlete Intelligence system. With advanced impact and performance metrics, our sensors can help improve your technique, reduce the risk of injury, and keep playing to your full potential. All the data is translated into what we call Coachable Moments, which provide actionable recommendations for improvement.
For example, our using the Vector MouthGuard in football our smart system will notice when an athlete is taking more hits to the crown of their heads in fourth quarter. It will automatically provide the athlete or coach with a Coachable Moment that recognizes the athlete is tiring and dropping his head. The athlete can then recognize that do to overexposure on the field his technique has begun to decrease in performance and may result in injuries.
While using the Cue Sport Sensor in soccer our Athlete Intelligence system can recognize when players are using improper heading techniques and will provide Coachable Moments on proper technique in order to reduce the risk of serious injury.
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