The Youth Fitness Podcast™

The Youth Fitness Podcast™


Episode 58: U18 - Positive Coaching Through Growth Spurts

March 12, 2025

Keegan and Mikki share proven strategies for positive coaching through growth spurts. Keeping youth engaged when physiological changes and challenges can create extra adjustment for both the youth and the coach.


Episode Highlights:


1. 1:31 "Early Bloomers" kindness, options, normalizing the experience and getting back to mastery

2. 3:29  Highlighting how their new body proportions have advantages

3. 6:32  Defining "Spend time in new positions"

4. 8:43  Awareness that the results of spending time in new positions are often discomfort, pain, struggling through tightness, and the need for specific mobility exercises

5. 10:55 "New Range of Motion is weak Range of Motion"

6. 11:36 Plan to incorporate more midline, core exercises, building core from more than a single direction- includie proprioceptive, rotation and anti rotation



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