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Your nervous system is what signals muscles where “normal” is held.  To safely advance your set point range is with (progressive) resistance, gravity, ground reaction and with movement.

To begin, active stretching must be performed with some guidance of the functional tolerances under the control of reciprocal inhibition, stretch reflex, current active range of motion, and finally, functional need.   To address, focus should remain  on the eccentric loading, or lengthening, ability of your exercises.

Highly repetitive movement in ranges outside of normal without a well devised plan to first improve personal base strength may only increase the working force (effort) against moving with safety and effectiveness.

Simply stated,  dynamic movement and loaded/resistance exercises is how progress is made for the carryover to both life and sport longevity.

 

Is my child safe playing sports?

Gone are the days where kids played for hours, everyday after school and well until the evening hours come weekends.  Today your child’s motor skill development is governed by the sport they will play the most.

This may seem the proactive and appropriate way to keep them healthy, moving, and free of harm.  Often times it is, however, with everything good comes a not so good.

One danger young athletes face is the blind disarming of their own ability to play the sport they love for years.   This may not present a current problem, moreover, if your child spends hours attaining a skill set they will never use in the future, then your family time and financial investment will have diminished all the way down to nothing.

Well now what?   Grasp what athletic ability means for them!

Athletic ability is a full circle system, meaning the ability to perform, recover, and repeat.   Most organized sport programs only know or have the time to coach the ‘repeat’ part of the process, which does not directly support the performance or recover ability part of the athletic equation.

 

Athletic value is gained when kids can simply

• Play (move)
• Fall (dynamic flexibility)
• Jump (plyometric)
• and Run (aerobic conditioning)

And, in the opportunity to Create, Interact, and SELF COACH.

Skills such as these can carry over to personal strategies, and to their passion for playing, in turn, building resilience and leadership into their lifelong behaviors.

If you would like more information or to have your child’s fitness measured:  email – djsanidad@gmail.com 

 

From the sidelines of your child’s weekend tournaments, one may hear conversation ranging from “A purchased knee or foot brace”, to the “Physical Therapist prescribing rehabilitation for the shin, knee or elbow pain from  last week’s practices.”

Organized competitive youth sports has increased benefits for young girls and boys, moreover, has also elevated unnecessary and preventable injuries to your child’s ongoing athletic development.

In short, today’s athlete is missing one determining factor in their athletic ability, Strength 

Run or Sprint?  

 

Most youth sports played today require speed, stamina and grit to play both effectively, moreover, longer.  Sadly, today’s approach in developing this fundamental skill is through running, not sprinting.

Sprinting insists maximal bio-mechanical effort into the ground and improving ground force reaction.  Which, in turn, improves the working capacity to play at a higher force output (a.k.a.)  POWER!

Unfortunately, power does not arrive before strength and why having a child learn HOW to sprint properly will widen their playing skill well beyond our current state of overuse and open to injury.

If you would like more information or would like to have your child’s current fitness measured: email – djsanidad@gmail.com 

 

 

Development of functional strength and fundamental movement.

The building blocks:

A  – Athletic Preparedness 

Grounding – awareness of (ground) base with/to force reaction

Balance – coordinating movement + patterns

Stability – safeguarding key areas prone to injury

Mobility –  dynamic movement + coordination

B  –  Physical Readiness 

Strength – tolerance to intense force and force transfer

Power – tolerance to highest intense rate of force and force transfer

C –  Whole Body Ability 

Athletic Ability – swift & effective movement endurance

Mindful Focus – disciplined to all needs for lifelong ability