This week on SportsSteps: Youth Strength Training and Growth Plates: A Parent’s Guide, plus 5 more from the site.
The TLDR
- Training Tip of the Week: Youth Strength Training and Growth Plates: A Parent’s Guide
- New on SportsSteps: How to Teach Youth Athletes to Clear Hurdles
Training Tip of the Week
Youth Strength Training and Growth Plates: A Parent’s Guide
If your kid wants to start lifting weights, you’ve probably heard the warning: strength training will stunt their growth or damage their growth plates. It’s one of the most repeated myths in youth… Read the full tip →
New on SportsSteps
How to Teach Youth Athletes to Clear Hurdles
Hurdling looks intimidating to most beginners — a sprint interrupted by barriers doesn’t feel natural, and young athletes often respond by jumping instead of running over the hurdle. That one habit… Read it →
How to Test Your Athleticism at Home: 8 Key Benchmarks
You don’t need a combine, a lab, or a fancy gym to find out where you actually stand as an athlete. A handful of simple movements — a jump, a sprint, a hold — can tell you more about your power… Read it →
How to Sight in Open Water Swimming Without Losing Speed
Lifting your head too high, too often, or at the wrong point in your stroke is the main reason sighting slows swimmers down. Every time your head comes up and your hips drop, you create drag, and if… Read it →
Youth Sports Tryout Etiquette: What Parents Should Do
Tryouts are stressful enough for a kid without a parent’s behavior adding to the pressure — or costing them a spot on the team. Coaches running evaluations are watching more than footwork and hustle… Read it →
Can You Sync TrainingPeaks and Strava Without Losing Data?
If you log workouts in Strava but do your real training analysis in TrainingPeaks, you’ve probably assumed there’s a button somewhere that connects the two. There isn’t, and searching for one wastes… Read it →
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