Key Discussion Points:
How do we prevent injury and prolong our athletic careers?
The importance of kids having an aerobic base?
As far as training and conditioning in youth teams, what are things that can be done to make sure the athletes are being taught the correct technique, as it is often overlooked?
The importance of reinforcing good mechanics in training?
Why is MCE the new recovery for injuries?
Key Lessons:
If its not from contact, most injuries we see are 100% preventable
We don’t know its a problem until its a problem
It is important to have a ball sport in your repertoire as a kid
As an athlete, there is no OFF button; athletes have a tendency to push through knowing something is wrong, coaches need to pay for attention
Its important to enforce good mechanics when training youth
“So what we are seeing is people are reinforcing these bad mechanics, and when it matters most, under the highest levels of stress or when there is fatigue..there’s gonna default to those practice states..and that’s where we can immediately start to make these huge changes.” KS @ 16:20
As a more experienced athlete, it is important to share what you have learned with younger athletes
When conditioning properly, we can get leading indicators, signals of possible injuries that may come in the future
“How do we know we have a problem? Pain, swelling, numbness and tingling, loss of forced production..that gets our attention, but those are lagging indicators. What we get from better conditioning is a set of leading indicators.”KS @ 21:38
“The best technique actually mimics the physiology of the human..now coaches, because we’re obsessed with going fast, and jumping the highest, and hitting the hardest, most technique ends up matching perfectly the physiologic expression of how the human being works.”KS @ 22:44
Ready position is ready position and its the same in all sports
Training isn’t always about strength, but more so efficiency
Icing doesn’t necessarily cure an injury
“There is not a single piece of research that shows icing helps an injury”KS @ 41:03
We reduce swelling by elevation, compression, and squeezing the inflamed/swollen area
Anything you put a brace on is eventually going to become weaker
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