Female athletes should not be trained like their male counterparts. Their workouts should focus on improving range-of-motion and strengthening specific muscle groups—like glutes and hamstrings—during pre-season. What’s more, keeping up with such training throughout the regular season can dramatically reduce the risk of ACL injuries.
Scott Lancaster
Fixing The American Athlete Podcast
The only way to change the youth sports paradigm in America is to influence coaches, parents and kids. They are the key stakeholders—if you’ll forgive the corporate speak.
Fixing The American Athlete Podcast Series
We misguide and coddle athletes. We don’t properly coach and have created a generation of robots that lack creativity, can’t think on their feet, can’t problem solve and are prone to injuries – leaving them at a competitive disadvantage.
Three Things Female Athletes Can Do to Avoid A Season Ending ACL Tear
Teen ACL injuries on the rise, UNC researchers call for wider use of injury prevention programs.
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Raising awareness about the many problems in youth sports today and to provide advice and offer solutions to help improve our children’s sports experiences.
Scott Lancaster’s Introduction to “Beyond Winning”
What troubles me most about today’s youth sports culture is that children are not the primary focus.
How Bullying In Youth Sports Dehumanizes Us
They play to have fun, make friends, develop skills, and discover their own creativity, but too often we see children enact and mimic adult-sanctioned or tolerated behavior on the field of play.
The Shocking Injury Statistics in Youth Sports
It’s up to us as parents to ensure that our young athletes follow properly balanced preseason and in-season training and conditioning programs in order to proactively prevent injuries.
One Parent’s Golden Moment
Sports push us to the brink, and when we stand on the edge of that precipice, all charged up with purpose and passion, the unexpected happens: a golden moment.
Know Your Triggers
In addition to knowing how your own sports biography can affect your child’s youth sports experience, it’s also important to know what triggers you when you watch your child participate in sports.