Movement Games
Anytime that I work with/train kids, I always try to spend the 1st 10-15 minutes working on movement, agility, speed and overall athleticism. No matter the sport, the better the athlete that you are, the higher your ceiling. Plus, at some point the organized games and schedules stop and I want my young athletes to know how to maintain healthy lives as they grow older. Speed guru Lee Taft , when asked how he would structure a 1 hour speed session of 8-11 years, gave the following response: "Warm up with light fun games to make them move and solve. Then do reactive tier 1 acceleration with deceleration at the end of acceleration run and give them points for how well they do when decelerating. I would teach with small bites for them to chew on while they move. At the end pick one area to do some simple corrections for a few minutes and close it down with something competitive again." I would do something very similar for sport training: 1 - Dynamic warm-up that br...