Kids Training
Keep Them Moving
When training kids, the session needs to be upbeat and fun if you want to keep them engaged. Kids love to be challenged through training games and scenarios that force them to compete against and work alongside one another.
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Some children have incredible amount of energy, some are training to become athletes, and some need encouragement to move their bodies instead of all day sitting. My unique design of personal children lessons ensure purposeful energy release, speed and agility improvement and overall training motivation are all accelerated while children still feel like they are having lots of fun.
Types of Kids Training
ENERGY RELEASE
Children are born to move. Just watch them – they don’t walk anywhere, they run; they are balls of energy; sitting still is not at the top of their to-do list.
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Energetic activities for kids are important in gross motor skills development of any child, and a necessity for kids with high energy. Kids should work on developing their gross motor skills before working on fine motor skills because they need to build up the big muscles first and then the little muscles have a much easier time when growing. Doing energetic activities to work on gross motor skills also help in burning off energy. Combine this with fun exercises and your child will be asking for a nap after each training.
GET THEM MOVING
Maybe your child hates sports, or gets more excited about video games than the kickball field. Or maybe they feel too out of shape to keep up with other kids their age. Maybe they do not see a point in working out or find it boring. Whatever the reason, it can be tough to motivate a kid to exercise when they just are not interested. You know that nagging doesn’t work. And you might worry that if you push too hard on that evening walk or little league sign-up, you will turn your child off of exercise for good.
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However, there are a handful of tricks can get children moving more on a regular basis, even if they won’t be signing up for a soccer team any time soon. After working with children for over 6 years now I have found the best way to get even the least active ones moving and excited for the next lesson.
BUILD BALANCE AND COORDINATION
Developing balance and coordination begins almost at birth. As babies develop, they learn to lift their head, roll over and scoot across the floor. Eventually, when babies turn into toddlers, their balance and coordination develops more quickly as they begin to crawl, walk, skip, jump and run. During these developmental stages, children typically become involved in more complex and difficult activities on the playground and at home that help them in their growth and development. However, when a child has developmental delays and fails to improve their balance and coordination skills over time, they may experience gaps in learning.
With good balance and coordination, the child is likely to have appropriate postural responses when needed. The physical attributes of balance and coordination also allow appropriate posture for table top tasks and subsequent success at fine motor tasks.
ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE
FOR YOUTH
Regardless of the sport, speed and agility training exercises are essential to developing a young athlete's performance and ability. Agility training exercises help to teach young athletes healthy habits, proper body positioning, balance, coordination, and hand-eye coordination.
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When it comes to speed and movement training, diving deep into overly complicated technical mechanics and drills may not be the most effective approach. An alternative is to create an environment where the technical drill is actually being applied in a well structured, real world scenario. These scenarios can be presented as games. You are killing two birds with one stone with this type of training. The technical theme of the training session is being achieved in probably a much less rehearsed and fluid manner, and the kids are having a blast doing it.
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Incorporating games into one's training model can lead to a huge increase in full-speed, real world application that cannot be replicated, other then in sport itself. Games create a type of controlled chaos that is an amazing teaching tool provided the game has some sort of structure and method for an individual to know if they are succeeding at the objective or not. In my experience, games will excite the kids and encourage them to work harder alongside their peers. It is also a great buy-in point and will get the kids looking forward to their next session. This will ultimately lead to a better overall session which will lead to better overall results.
Why Is Kids Training Important?
The benefits of being physically active for children and adolescents include improved cardiovascular fitness, muscular fitness, bone health and cognition along with an increased likelihood of being healthy as an adult. To achieve these health benefits, children and adolescents should participate in a minimum of 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per day, with a focus on participating in vigorous activities at least three days per week. In addition, resistance-training activities, such as climbing or weightlifting, and bone-strengthening activities that provide impact, such as hopping and jumping, should be incorporated into the daily 60 minutes three days per week.