mike_dyer
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Something I've noticed over the last few years is the number of injuries in youth sports seems to be on the rise. Also, anyone else noticed that every break seems to involve a "growth plate"?
Weird.
I didn't even know what a "growth plate" was until my kids got into sports.
Anyway. I see a lot of kids missing games over back injuries, catchers wearing knee braces, pulled and torn muscles, torn ACLs, torn MCLs, etc. and I don't remember it at all from my youth.
What happened?
I think it's a lack of strength training. Nearly everyone I talk to is convinced that if a kid picks up a weighted object they will explode, I think that has a lot to do with it. The same people send their kid out to throw weighted objects as hard as they can, swing weighted objects as hard as they can, and perform explosive movements that their bodies simply aren't prepared to perform over and over and over again.
It will have to be all bodyweight stuff because of the anti lifting propaganda that has infected my target audience, but it will follow the same formula that every workout that doesn't promise that you'll be an underwear model after "working out" for 10 minutes a day, 3 times a week.
Weird.
I didn't even know what a "growth plate" was until my kids got into sports.
Anyway. I see a lot of kids missing games over back injuries, catchers wearing knee braces, pulled and torn muscles, torn ACLs, torn MCLs, etc. and I don't remember it at all from my youth.
What happened?
I think it's a lack of strength training. Nearly everyone I talk to is convinced that if a kid picks up a weighted object they will explode, I think that has a lot to do with it. The same people send their kid out to throw weighted objects as hard as they can, swing weighted objects as hard as they can, and perform explosive movements that their bodies simply aren't prepared to perform over and over and over again.
It will have to be all bodyweight stuff because of the anti lifting propaganda that has infected my target audience, but it will follow the same formula that every workout that doesn't promise that you'll be an underwear model after "working out" for 10 minutes a day, 3 times a week.