Athletic fitness for kids / Scott Lancaster, Radu Teodorescu.
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TextPublication details: Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2008.Description: xiii, 167 p. ; ill. ; 26 cmISBN: - 0736062424 (pbk.)
- 9780736062428 (pbk.)
- 613.7 LAN
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Finally, here is a conditioning program designed to fully develop a young athlete's physical skills without dropout, injury, or burnout.
Athletic Fitness for Kids enhances athletic skills for young athletes using a fun, self-directed, and self-tested system. Gamelike activities help young athletes develop seven key sport skills:
-Flexibility
-Coordination
-Balance
-Stamina
-Strength
-Speed
-Agility
Athletic Fitness for Kids includes drills, games, and exercises that cross over with popular sports such as baseball, basketball, football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis. Sport-specific drill suggestions are also included.
Developed by Scott Lancaster, founder and CEO of Youth Evolution Sports, and Radu Teodorescu, fitness adviser, Athletic Fitness for Kids will maximize athletic potential and open doors to a lifetime of fitness and sport participation.
The athletic fitness method -- Setting up the program -- Increase flexibility -- Gain coordination -- Build balance -- Boost stamina -- Harness strength -- Maximize speed -- Enhance agility -- Appendix A. metric conversions -- Appendix B. Throwing tips.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Drill Finder (p. viii)
- Acknowledgments (p. xiii)
- Chapter 1 The Athletic Fitness Method (p. 1)
- Chapter 2 Set Up the Program (p. 7)
- Chapter 3 Improve Flexibility (p. 17)
- Chapter 4 Gain Coordination (p. 39)
- Chapter 5 Build Balance (p. 63)
- Chapter 6 Boost Stamina (p. 81)
- Chapter 7 Increase Strength (p. 101)
- Chapter 8 Maximize Speed (p. 121)
- Chapter 9 Enhance Agility (p. 143)
- Appendix A Metric Conversions (p. 163)
- Appendix B Throwing Tips (p. 165)
- About the Authors (p. 167)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Scott Lancaster is the founder and CEO of Youth Evolution Sports (www.youthevolutionsports.com), a multimedia, content, and youth sports marketing company that services kids, parents, coaches, corporations, and major league sport organizations. He has developed youth sport programs for the past 19 years, both in affiliation with U.S. Soccer and as the former senior director of youth football for the National Football League. The author of Fair Play , he has been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including the NBC "Today Show," CNN, the CBS "Early Show," the New York Times , the Chicago Tribune , the Boston Globe , National Public Radio, Woman's Day , and Ladies' Home Journal . He also hosts his own national youth sports radio show, "The ABC's of Sports," for parents and coaches on Sirius Radio, channel 123.
Radu Teodorescu runs a training center in New York City, where he has trained everyone from children to celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Candice Bergen, Matthew Broderick, and Vanessa Williams. Teodorescu has been featured in more than 400 magazine articles and has spoken at conferences and given fitness clinics across the United States. He is widely known for creating, writing, and producing videos with celebrity model and fitness enthusiast Cindy Crawford, including Shape Your Body , which is the best-selling fitness video of all time.