Comments on: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure. http://www.stevenbubel.com/2009/09/an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-a-pound-of-cure/ EXPERIENCE : EDUCATION : RESULTS Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick Ward http://www.stevenbubel.com/2009/09/an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-a-pound-of-cure/#comment-61 Patrick Ward Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:25:50 +0000 http://www.stevenbubel.com/?p=304#comment-61 Parents are reluctant to get their kids into resistance training, yet they will put them in 5 different baseball leagues over the entire year. When do kids have time to train if the parents are always signing them up for all these youth leagues? There is no offseason. The gym is where fundamentals take place. You can slow things down to a more manageable pace and really learn movements. Everything on the field during practice or games is always 100% and most of the times the coaches are volunteer coaches, just supervising nonsense - there is no real coaching going on. patrick Parents are reluctant to get their kids into resistance training, yet they will put them in 5 different baseball leagues over the entire year.

When do kids have time to train if the parents are always signing them up for all these youth leagues? There is no offseason.

The gym is where fundamentals take place. You can slow things down to a more manageable pace and really learn movements. Everything on the field during practice or games is always 100% and most of the times the coaches are volunteer coaches, just supervising nonsense – there is no real coaching going on.

patrick

]]> By: Carson Boddicker http://www.stevenbubel.com/2009/09/an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-a-pound-of-cure/#comment-60 Carson Boddicker Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:14:36 +0000 http://www.stevenbubel.com/?p=304#comment-60 I am in full agreement here, Steven. I think parents are reluctant to get their kids involved in resistance training due to the abundance of myths associated with children lifting. Lifting will not stunt growth, create a "meathead" or develop an inclination to use PEDs. While, as professionals, we need to be choosy about how we load these kids, in the long run it is very much beneficial for development. I am in full agreement here, Steven. I think parents are reluctant to get their kids involved in resistance training due to the abundance of myths associated with children lifting. Lifting will not stunt growth, create a “meathead” or develop an inclination to use PEDs. While, as professionals, we need to be choosy about how we load these kids, in the long run it is very much beneficial for development.

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