Sport Specialization in Young Athletes discusses the implications of playing a single sport all year long (Jayanthi, 2013). The article argues that in order to play at an elite level, athletes need to participate in 10000 hours or 10 years of sport specific training. Neeru Jayanthi suggests that in order to meet these expectations, athletes need to start sport specialization at a young age. Sport specialization can have consequences such as physical injury or physiological st

What is the actual point of the burpee? Effectively it accomplishes not much in terms of improvement from a physical standard and serves as a filler to expend calories that could otherwise be put into a useful exercise chosen to elicit an improvement. When choosing an exercise, you need to understand the risk vs reward scale otherwise you should move on. If risk wins, burpees out; if reward wins burpees are in. The consistency of the burpee diminishes fairly quickly so the ri

Can we as coaches change the way we view strengths and weaknesses and call them something else? What about efficiencies and inefficiencies? Sounds like a mouthful sure, but the reality is that the power of words actually changes the context of how they are applied. Some coaches say train your weaknesses a little more, so they become stronger. We fail to realize that youth athletes’ egos are still in their infancy. They are still working on navigating the world, and throwing a