The One Dumbbell In-Season Program

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Just thought I’d reblog this as coaches think about what to do this fall.

Originally posted on Michael Boyle's Strengthcoach.com Blog:

I recently spoke at the USA Hockey Level 5 Coaches Symposium in Las Vegas on Designing a Program for Your Team. The basic premise was to develop a “rink-based” program that any team can follow. It is based on a previous post called The All I Need is One Dumbell Workout.

So many coaches complain about not having a weight room, not having a strength coach, not having equipment etc. My feeling is instead of complaining, find a solution. There is a quote I love that sums this up.

“Better to light one candle than to sit and curse the darkness”

The truth is you can actually get a great workout in with only one dumbbell. You can get your entire team training for less than $500 in most cases.

To start, pick a dumbbell that will be challenging for Dumbbell Rows ( challenging but, not the heaviest…

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Making Activity Trackers More Fashion Forward

Picking a fashionable activity tracker may keep you wearing it and using it longer.

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Federal Task Force Withholds Support for Early Autism Screening

A federal task force has concluded that there is no evidence to support universal autism screening of young children, raising concern among autism advocates and experts who for years have been urging physicians to screen children as early as possible in order to begin early treatment.

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Baby Name Change Could Prevent Hospital Errors

A simple change in how the NICO names babies can significantly reduce medication errors.

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Pregnancy Is the Best Time for Some Vaccines

Many women go through pregnancy unprotected by readily available vaccines that can prevent irreversible harm to the woman, the unborn baby or the very young infant.

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3 Myths That Are Destroying Sports for Our Kids

John O’Sullivan at Changing the Game Project puts out some great stuff and this piece is no exception. If you are a parent, please read this. If you are involved in youth sports please read this. If you are an administrator of a youth sports program, please share this with your parents.

The 3 Myths That Are Destroying the Youth Sports Experience for Our Kids

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Hall of Famer Comes Out Against Early Specialization

This came to me courtesy of James Leath  (@jamesleath www.jamesleath.com ) but, the text is from the Hall of Fame induction speech of John Smoltz . Imagine how important John Smoltz thinks this is if he included it in the limited amount of time available to him at Cooperstown.

“Before I hand it over to the next inductee, I’d be remiss if I did not talk about Tommy John. I’ve been given an opportunity as one of the only players, the only one right now, to be inducted into the Hall of Fame with Tommy John surgery. It’s an epidemic. It’s something that is affecting our game. It’s something that I thought would cost me my career, but thanks to Dr. James Andrews and all those before him, performing the surgery with such precision has caused it to be almost a false read, like a Band‑Aid you put on your arm.

I want to encourage the families and parents that are out there to understand that this is not normal to have a surgery at 14 and 15 years old, that you have time, that baseball’s not a year‑round sport, that you have an opportunity to be athletic and play other sports.

Don’t let the institutions that are out there running before you guaranteeing scholarship dollars and signing bonuses (tell you) that this is the way. We have such great, dynamic arms in our game that it’s a shame that we’re having one and two and three Tommy John recipients. So I want to encourage you if nothing else, know that your children’s passion and desire to play baseball is something that they can do without a competitive pitch. Every throw a kid makes today is a competitive pitch. They don’t go outside; they don’t have fun; they don’t throw enough. But they’re competing and maxing out too hard, too early, and that’s why we’re having these problems. So please, take care of those great future arms.”

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