Sentences with phrase «younger athletes on»

He said he also looked forward to working with younger athletes on the team.

«Our prior Summits provided the foundation for this National Action Plan - the critical next step that will help keep young athletes on the field and off the sidelines with chronic, catastrophic or fatal conditions,» said NATA President Jim Thornton, MA, ATC, CES.

SPORTINGKID LIVE: Should young athletes on a losing team focus on making themselves a better player, or helping their team win?

This trend toward focusing on one sport can sharpen skills and even set young athletes on the path to scholarships and college success.

All Access, Season 2, Episode 1: Outside of the mixed martial arts cage and away from the media spotlight, the cameras of All Access: Ronda Rousey reveal a young athlete on the cusp of stardom.

Not exact matches

LANSING, Mich. (AP)-- Sports doctor Larry Nassar is on his way to prison for the rest of his life for molesting scores of young female athletes, but the scandal is far from over at Michigan State University as victims, lawmakers and a judge demand to know why he wasn't stopped years ago.

Tanking is obviously an inexact science, and has much more to do with lineup construction and the allocation of playing time than anything else — players are professional athletes, and convincing them to lose on purpose to bring younger, cheaper new talent to their franchise isn't exactly a great sell.

«It used to be that if you wanted performance enhancement, you'd have to go to the musclebound guy at the gym who was selling steroids,» says Mike Perko, an associate professor of Health and Applied Human Sciences at UNC Wilmington and author of Taking One for the Team: The New Thinking on Dietary Supplements and Young Athletes.

Velocity Sports Performance, a national chain of workout facilities, gets young athletes focused on phys - ed essentials

Even for an athlete as phenomenal as Ronaldo is, that's a lot of miles on his legs, so it would be unsurprising if he started a steep decline at a younger age than most top players, especially after the knee injury he suffered in the Euro 2016 final that kept him out of action for months.

Pioneering sports surgeon James Andrews is again on the cutting edge — against overuse injuries in young athletes

Sir: Talk about pressure on today's young athletes.

The reason I say as early as possible is to counter those exact problems, allowing the young athlete to be competent and ready to take on a heavier load by the time they progress into heavier weights.

We spoke to Kaigan about his achievements on the slopes, his future ambitions and aspirations and his advice to other young athletes.

But suddenly the young man who says that he set his watch and dorm - room clock 10 minutes ahead to try to stay on schedule, who served as the Chiefs» co-captain, who spent time volunteering at last summer's Special Olympics and who had just appeared as one of nine varsity athletes on the university president's Christmas card, was being described as the instigator of a scuffle during an intrasquad scrimmage — a bad actor no longer wanted by his coach or teammates.

When a young athlete suffers a traumatic injury to their knee, there can often be swelling and difficulty putting pressure on the leg.

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As a Youth Conditioning, Speed / Agility and Nutrition Specialist with the International Youth Conditioning Association, Fit -2-The-Core Training Systems offers an innovative approach to getting your young athletes back on the field of play post-rehabilitation (which get your athletes to normal functioning), continuing the process by progressing their bodies to handle what they must endure on the field or court.

We pledge to continue our emphasis on fundamentals and developing young athletes to be fine players and fine people.

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I think there is a misconception on what conditioning really is and how to improve it for young athletes.

There are plenty of young athletes drawn to MMA who simply want to be in top shape while enjoying one - on - one competition similar to what wrestling offers at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels.

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Loss of ankle mobility can have a negative impact on the health and performance of young athletes.

Wow, thanks for such an insightful angle on yet another young athlete who's helping to kill my interest in professional sports.

The summer camps, featuring big - name players and coaches, have always provided a come - on, but the strength of the program lies in the local Huddles, where an older athlete meets with younger ones.

He's a fluid athlete, one of the youngest players in the draft, and is still learning what he's capable of on the court.

They will lose some veteran leadership in 2018 as Jay Lehrman and Jake Prizant will be moving on but they have a nice pipeline of young athletes.

Both Judge and Porzingis are young athletes, so let's check in on one of the old guard.

Chronic adolescent hip pain often strikes young athletes with structural abnormalities sooner than their less active counterparts, due to the stress their level of activity places on the hip.

These young athletes pitted themselves again and again on the demoralizing slopes of Hurl Hill.

I'd estimate that 95 % of the young athletes who walk through my door on their first day to train are nowhere near strong enough to derive considerable benefit from advanced progressions of plyometrics.

As a Youth Conditioning, Speed / Agility and Nutrition Specialist with the IYCA, Fit 2 The Core Training Systems Boot Camps offer an innovative approach to getting young athletes back on the field post-rehabilitation, and continuing the process by progressing their bodies to handle what they must endure on the field or court.

First up on Sunday, Dec. 27 is the youth wrestlers featuring athletes as young as five - years - old up to middle school ages.

So as a general rule, throughout high school, roughly 70 percent of a young athlete's training program should be based on general fitness and athletic ability.

These are very simple yet effective strategies to improve your young athletes performance on the field, court or mat today.

When using a system that focuses on general skill development based on sound principles of movement, young athletes will see a tremendous improvement in speed, quickness, body control and — most importantly — injury reduction.

Most young athletes are rear foot dominant, which means they carry too much weight on their heels when they walk, run or move in general.

Sports are played on a single leg, and a trainer must understand the functional anatomy on a single leg and the needed pelvic stability to properly prepare your young athlete for the demands of their sport, not only for increased speed, power and agility, but most importantly for injury prevention.

«But we are also fortunate that there are existing athletes that are still well within an Olympic cycle — if not further — who are so fired up to still perform and fight for a place, which also has a knock on effect to the younger athletes knowing that's the level they need to achieve.

It's simple to see why each Real and Barcelona are focused on signing Odriozola, because the Spaniard has confirmed time and time once more to be one of the crucial gifted younger athletes in La Liga.

Of the estimated 3,000 young athletes currently participating on U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams, only about 30 - or 1 % (here we go with that number again) will end up playing professionally.

And we know that Kevin will do just that, and that «Crash Reel» and his advocacy on traumatic brain injury will have a great impact on the young athletes of this country..

My reaction was one of sadness, frustration, and worry: sadness that a young athlete simply assumed that he had CTE as a result of a single concussion and considered it to be a death sentence; frustration that, despite concerted efforts by researchers and clinicians, along with some in the media, to set the record straight on CTE, the prevailing media narrative continues to be that concussions or repetitive subconcussive blows «cause» chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), that CTE «causes» former athletes to commit suicide, and that such causal links are proven scientific fact (they're not); and, finally, worry: concern about the consequences of the football = CTE and CTE = suicide memes in the real world.

As someone who is usually in the position of moderating a discussion of concussions or giving a keynote address at a conference or convention on how to keep young athletes safe, and given the deep knowledge I have on the subject as a result of MomsTEAM's work as the «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, I have to admit I found myself in the somewhat unique position of knowing nearly as much about concussions as some of the presenters.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

«We must all take a hands - on approach with our young athletes and really understand all the issues that they are dealing with when it comes to weight management.»

In its 2012 Policy Statement on Baseball and Softball8, the AAP acknowledges the recent studies challenging the theory that the curveball and slider are stressful to the young elbow, but, on the basis of other studies showing increased injury among those who throw curve balls and sliders at early ages, continues to recommend that introduction of the curve ball be delayed until after age 14, or when pubertal development has advanced to the stage when the athlete has started to shave, and that sliders not be thrown until age 16.

Because the Maddocks questions can be asked by anyone, they are valuable on sports sidelines where no health care professional trained in performing a full sideline screening for concussion, such as doctor or certified athletic trainer, is present, as is often the case in contact and collision sports involving younger athletes.

The problem, as Paul S. Echlin, M.D. of the Elliott Sports Medicine Clinic in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and author of the Canadian study, points out, is that the «young athlete is often caught between competing demands of the adults around them» and «sometimes make decisions based on the adult whom they perceive to have the most influence on their success, and also whom they wish most to please for a variety of reasons.»