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08/26/09 |
Pumping Iron Builds Bone Strength For Kids, Too
by Patti Neighmond
This fall, many kids on
playgrounds and on sports teams will injure
themselves, partly because they're not in good
enough shape to run and compete safely. Health
and fitness experts say that one way to increase
fitness before the season starts is weight
training. That's right, weight training can help
kids, even elementary schoolers. ...
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07/01/09 |
HEAT, ICE, RICE?
Managing Sports Injuries ...
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06/10/09 |
NOT MAKING IT - THE TRUE CHALLENGE
By Anson Dorrance, University Of
North Carolina Head Women's Soccer Coach and
former United States National Team Coach
One of the biggest gripes some
people have when they don't make a team is that
it has to do with some political process. They
blame lack of success on favoritism or
prejudice. So, rather than discussing or
evaluating failure through lack of ability or
performance, the issue is politics. The problem
with that specious argument is that it is made
by those players on the bottom of a roster. So
if you don't want to leave it to chance, don't
let it be close. Make a clear statement in the
trial about who you are and what you can do.
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05/26/09 |
Prevent Common Injuries in Soccer: Knee
Injuries ...
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01/13/09 |
Do We Coach Our Players to
Compete or Just Play? ...
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11/21/08 |
Club teams could hurt U.S. high schools. ...
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08/13/08 |
Chocolate Milk: Best for Recovery!
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D.
What should you eat after strenuous exercise or
competition? Many studies have shown that eating a
protein-rich meal as soon as possible after this
hard workout hastens muscle recovery. Intelligently
increased workloads make an athlete stronger, and
anything that helps you recover faster allows you to
do more work. When you feel the burn during intense
exercise, you are damaging your muscle fibers. The
pain that you feel 8 to 24 hours after a hard
workout is due to muscle damage. It is now fairly
well established that your muscles recover faster if
you eat protein as soon as possible after a hard
workout or competition.
You'll be happy to know that a study from Indiana
University in Bloomington shows that chocolate milk
helps athletes to recover faster from hard exercise
than drinks that replaced only carbohydrates or
fluid alone (International Journal of Sports
Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, February 2006).
This study controlled the portion
sizes, but other research has shown that athletes
will drink most of the beverage that tastes best to
them, so that may give chocolate milk its primary
advantage.
Chocolate Milk as a Post-Exercise Recovery Aid
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08/13/08 |
Heading Soccer Ball Does Not Injure Brain
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08/13/08 |
Tactical soccer training: in praise of 4 v 4
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07/31/08 |
USSF 2006 Youth
Soccer Heat & Hydration Guidelines
Soccer Warm Up?
How should young players warm-up? |
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06/29/08 |
What
Happens If You DON’T Get a Call on July 1st?
FULL STORY
http://blog.ncsasports.org/2008/06/29/what-happens-if-you-dont-get-a-call-on-july-1st/ |
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06/27/08 |
FA bans
under-eights' football leagues to nurture beautiful
game
FULL STORY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/jun/27/children |
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2008 |
National Soccer Coaches Association of
America (NSCAA) PARENT EDUCATION
The NSCAA has combined with
Sports Path to offer an online learning course
for soccer parents. ...
NSCAA - Soccer Parent Course |
