Created and led by Dr. Jordan Metzl, renowned sports medicine physician, best selling author of the Exercise Cure and the Athlete's Book of Home Remedies, 31 time marathon runner and 12 time Ironman triathlete, Ironstrength
teaches athletes of all ages how to build strength and reduce the aches and pains of every life in the process.
Not exact matches
Coaches often are are quite good at
teaching this part
of the sport and high school -
age athletes are technically better than they've ever been.
He has devoted his life to
teaching and coaching
athletes of all
ages.
All
of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the
athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number
of hits to the head a player receives over the course
of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program),
teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath
of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether
athletes below a certain
age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy
of Pediatrics recommend).
A former professional
athlete and life - long student
of exercise and metabolism, he is a living example
of what he
teaches: at the
age of 72 he is 6» 1 ″, 205 pounds and has less than 8 % body fat.
I
teach yoga to students in a wide range
of ages, from 4 to 86, kids,
athletes & non-
athletes alike.
There is an excellent book, The Mindfulness - Acceptance - Commitment Approach, that outlines how to
teach and use mindfulness with
athletes of all
ages.