Better Coaching
DECEMBER 24, 2024
More, Younger Youth sports occupy a special place in American culture, shaping childrens character, health, and social lives. Children have shorter limbs and different leverage points compared to adults, which influences their biomechanics during movements like throwing, kicking, or running.
The Sporting
JUNE 19, 2024
Anatomical, biomechanical, hormonal and training factors play a part in women having a greater risk of ACL injury, as does footwear. Considering the differences between a man’s foot and a woman’s foot, a gender-neutral or unisex pair of boots is liable to be seriously detrimental for both men’s and women’s feet and biomechanics.
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Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 31, 2025
The main goal of this curriculum model is to provide students with the skills, knowledge and disposition to maintain lifetime physical activity through a health-related curricular focus that promotes physical activity. Health orientated/optimising physical education (HOPE: e.g. Metzler et al., Integrated Physical Education. Cone et al.
Stanford Childrens
AUGUST 9, 2023
The lab combines cutting-edge technology and decades of experience to help young athletes recover safely, improve sports performance, and reduce future injury risk through biomechanical assessment using 3-D motion capture video and force plates. I’m so proud of the time and dedication Aiden has put in to get his health and strength back.
Informed Practitioner in Sport
OCTOBER 3, 2021
Beyond sport, we must also consider the enormous numbers of recreational runners and those for whom running is a popular form of exercise for health and fitness. Running is an outlet for managing stress and a tool for bolstering mental health. Here are the common ones: Fundamental fragility problem?
PLT4M
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Standard 2 Students achieve a level of physical fitness for health and performance while demonstrating knowledge of fitness concepts, principles, and strategies. For example, “1.6 – Identify and apply the principles of biomechanics necessary for the safe and successful performance of weight training.”
Better Coaching
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
While pitch counts and rest days are now commonly monitored in amateur leagues, some coaches and parents push the boundaries, believing more practice and play will lead to greater success—often to the detriment of the child’s health. They may also work on correcting any biomechanical issues that contributed to the injury in the first place.
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