Health And Fitness For Teens Biography
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Watching professional athletes today is incredible. Their performances are often breathtaking—some of the shots they make, tackles they break, balls they catch and grand slams they hit seem almost impossible. People pay a lot of money to witness the skills and talent on display at the professional and Olympic levels.
This talent and skill certainly doesn’t develop over night! NO SIR! These talented athletic stars were once the youth we are inspiring and teaching today. Some were naturally more athletic than others, but most worked extra hard to develop the skills and strength needed to perform at such an optimal level.
As parents and coaches we must remember how critical the foundation of athletic performance is at the beginning of any strength and conditioning program. It all starts with teaching kids the fundamental movement skills: running, jumping, catching, throwing and kicking. Once these skills become regular practice, it’s time to progress into developing strength and conditioning. Although exercises can be performed from various positions, most ground-based fitness activities start with the athletic stance. It is the most basic postures we teach every new athlete in the weight room or on the field because it reinforces proper body mechanics and corrects errors in movement skill technique.
The athletic stance may also be referred as “looking like an athlete.” Here are the characteristics of looking like an athlete:
Have your feet shoulder-width apart.
Slightly bend your knees with your butt/hips shifted back (small arch in lower back).
Keep your chest and head upright and tall (chest over knees).
Shoulders should be back and arms active, but relaxed.
Keep the feet flat on the ground with weight on the heels.
Looking like an athlete teaches the postural cues that keep an athlete safe when performing exercises such as squats, lateral shuffles, biceps curls and shoulder press. Engraining this stance into a young athletes program will make it second nature during training and performance. Not only will they have better posture to lift safely, but their athletic performance will likely improve, as well. Athletes that have a stronger athletic stance can change direction more quickly, sprint faster, throw longer distances, jump higher and control their balance better because they have developed their foundation and postural strength.
Because there are several steps in mastering the athletic stance, a great place to practice is during warm-up activities and group exercises.
Have the young athletes follow each cue until they finish in perfect athletic stance. Once they learn how this movement should feel, run a drill with them to practice on command.
Begin by having participants run in place.
Call out STANCE—they should all immediately get into athletic stance.
Repeat the running and STANCE drill for at least five to 10 rounds.
Make this an important part of your athletes’ training programs and they are more likely to be the next Olympic champion.
As a pediatrician with a special interest in working with overweight children and their families, I frequently talk with families about how to help the kids achieve and maintain a healthy weight. In many cases, it comes down to not gaining any weight as the child grows in height. Then, body mass index (BMI) is likely to normalize and we can avert many of the health problems associated with obesity. Of course, this requires changes to family habits and patterns around nutrition and physical activity, but it is a relief to families that most overweight kids do not actually need to lose weight.
While I have thought this to be true—that maintenance of weight during increases in height will decrease BMI and help a child achieve a “healthy weight”—I’ve always talked about it in a “general” way, without having hard numbers to say just how many fewer calories a child needs to eat to be able to actually maintain that weight. Or for whom this strategy works best. But now we have the research that will enable me to be much more specific.
The Scoop
In late July 2013, a study was published by researchers from the National Institutes of Health, which shared results of a (complex) mathematical model that was able to predict a lot about kids’ weight, including how many fewer calories a child of a certain age needs to consume to maintain weight.
Here are a few key findings:
Today’s kids, on average, eat a lot more calories than kids from a generation ago. For example, the average 10-year-old boy eats about 300 calories per day more than his parents did when they were 10.
Kids who are obese eat a lot more calories than their healthy-weight peers. In fact, from ages 5-11 years, obese boys eat, on average, 750 calories per day more than healthy-weight peers; for girls the difference is 850 calories.
The well-touted formula that 3,500 calories = 1 pound of fat does not hold true for kids. The authors use an example of a 10-year-old female who was of normal weight at 5 years of age, but by age 10 was 4.5 pounds overweight. Using the standard formula of 3,500 calories in 1 pound, one would suppose she needed to consume an extra 15,750 calories to gain that amount of weight (4.5 X 3500) (that would end up being about 40 excess calories per day). Not so. Rather, she consumed an extra 157,000 calories too many in the five years to gain that amount of excess weight (400 calories per day)! (Once kids stop growing, the adult equation is more likely to hold true.)
Kids who are at a period of peak growth (roughly 10-15 years in boys and 9-13 years in girls) can achieve a healthy BMI by maintaining weight. The study found that 11-year-old obese boys who maintained their weight from 11-16, had normalized BMI and lost a lot of body fat, while increasing their lean mass. (Unfortunately, this didn’t work out as well for girls, possibly because the age range measured (11-16yrs) occurred during a period of slower growth potential than for the boys.)
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