| Fitness Article For The Week of May 20th, 2012 |
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| "WHEN SHOULD CHILDREN START ATHLETIC TRAINING?" |
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Jarrod Parra, MS, CSCS (Director of Training) |
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| If your child is participating in a sport already, then he or she is definitely old enough to start a properly designed and supervised resistance training program. Resistance training involves personalized guidance and performance of exercises in an attempt to make a child stronger and more powerful. Resistance training does not have to involve the use of maximal or near-maximal resistances. Resistance training may include the use of weights, elastic bands, medicine balls, isokinetics or simply body weight (i.e., push-ups or pull-ups) or anything else that can be safely thrown or lifted. Actually, most children perform some type of resistance training every day of their life. For example, hopscotch or giving a friend a piggyback ride or jumping from a tree branch. During free play, you will see children hopping, jumping and skipping. These are very important rudimentary skills that should be learned and are key to a child's physical and social development. When a child walks down stairs or jumps over a ditch he or she may encounter forces reaching up to 3 times body weight or more upon landing. ............. |
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