Specialization in sports creates an issue of making holes in athletic skills and longevity. Due to the fact that development is not only personal, moreover within itself, an individual approach of improving athleticism (skill acquisition)
A physical limiting factor with specialization play is that everyone can not achieve their own personal best performance. Yielding a need for parents of young athletes help fill their child’s athletic “gaps”, and thus, ensure their young athletes have a better chance of remaining healthy, playing strong and competitively for years to come.
Some of the more common performance gaps found in young athletes lie in the lack of transferring ability of fundamental movement. Movements that help to specifically transfer both speed and power. This weighs heavily for longevity as their ability to efficiently repeat a pattern or position used on the field will only continue to diminish as they get older.
Fundamental Movement Examples:
- running
- sprinting
- multi-direction transitioning/transferring (agility)
To help fill the gaps, here are a few activities that mimic the neuromuscular demand: range of motion and mechanical position, needed for improving fielding skill play.
Single leg-posterior reach: grounding and stability via core range of motion
Leg cranks – muscle chain used for running (speed) and sprinting (power)
Cutting/Skating – fall with gravity for swift explosive movement/agility
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