Tag: Youth
Surviving the Gap: Navigating Puberty in Sport
Beware of the gap.
It’s a challenging time for you - physically and psychologically. Some of your friends will be experiencing it already, some not...
The Menstrual Cycle and How It Affects the Female Athlete
It’s well-known that sex differences between men and woman exist. Differences that affect your physiology.
But what’s not so well known is how these differences...
EP 19 – Fiona Mather – What we can learn from...
ADS 0019: Fiona Mather – What we can learn from the horse racing industry
My guest of the show today is Fiona Mather (@FifiMather).
Fiona...
Bone Growth and What Every Young Athlete Needs to Know to...
The benefits of participating in sport and physical activity are well known: you learn about team work and communication, how to commit to something...
Lessons from A Silver Fern
Guest Contribution: Anna Harrison - New Zealand Netballer.
Another big year of Northern Mystics and New Zealand Silver Fern Netball commitments has come to an...
5 Essential Ingredients to Better Sporting Performance
Your performance in competition is dependent on doing the right things in training. Here are 5 essential ingredients to consider.
Ambition
Where does your motivation...
Injuries in Young Athletes
Although they seem to be much more physically resilient than the rest of us; children and teenagers are also prone to injuries, especially if...
The R Word: Responsibility and how we can develop it in...
If there’s one thing sport can teach, it’s responsibility.
Being responsible means performing a particular task assigned to you by someone else, or created by...
3 Things to avoid when signing your child up for sport
With so many sports and development programme on offer these days, it’s hard to know what’s right, and what’s not, for your child. Here...
Forget Running. Play More Games.
Aerobic fitness is crucial for team sport players. It helps you produce ‘game-defining’ high-intensity efforts, and to sustain these efforts for the duration of...