Don’t be a “Dick”
Last summer we had a very successful Sports Conditioning Program for middle school highschool and college athletes. All of our athletes performed very well (which was definitely noticed by their coaches). Most of the players moved up from JV to varsity or nonstarter to starting positions, but the most important thing was that everyone remained injury free all season.
I recently had found out about a female soccer player who wanted to come with her friend and train with us this past Summer, but her father did not want to pay for the training for his daughter because he neglected t see the value in quality professional strength coaching. As a result his daughter was unprepared and she tore her ACL which needed surgery. unfortunately she missed her entire highschool senior season and she lost any hope of a scholarship to play at the college level. We could have helped her be stronger, faster, more conditioned and most importantly more resilient to injury! What a “Dick”, don’t be that dude.
This could have been a baseball player, football player, basketball player or any other sport for that matter. Don’t start the season unprepared.
The Spring sports season is about here and it’s not too late to get some conditioning and prep work done. If you’re an athlete get in here and get going. Going to the “Gym” and messing around on the bench or jogging on a treadmill is not going to prepare you for potentially your best season ever.
If you’re the parent of an athlete give your young athlete the best possible chance of having a successful season and remaining injury free. Want your athlete to be a scholarship athlete in college? What parent wouldn’t, with the tuition rates skyrocketing you should want them to have even a partial scholarship and . If you think about it every game, every practice, everything they do will potentially increase that athletes chance of becoming a scholarship athlete.
Did you know that women are almost three times more likely to have ACL injuries than men and a few statistics show that female soccer players are eight times more likely to injury their ACL than a male soccer player.
ACL injuries are most common in sports that involve sudden changes of direction, such as football, soccer and basketball. The majority are non-contact injuries that occur during change of direction, a sudden twisting motion or when landing from a jump.
Fortunately an athlete can prepare themselves to more resilient to this type of injury. Athletes can reduce their risk of ACL injuries by performing various types of drills that require speed (acceleration and deceleration) agility, balance and power. Adding exercises that target these areas will help improve neuromuscular conditioning and muscular reactions as well as speed and quickness. A well prepared and conditioned athlete will ultimately have reduced risk of ACL injury.
If you have any questions regarding some ideas and programs you can implement yourself or for information about our Sports Conditioning Program feel free to contact us by phone or email.
509-209-7217