Athlete development - Porto

a multitude of whole-body sensory experiences on a daily basis in order to develop strong bodies and minds. This is best done outside where the senses are fully ignited and young bodies are challenged by the uneven and unpredictable, ever-changing terrain.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/09/01/the-decline-of-play-in-preschoolers-and-the-rise-in-sensory-issues/

strong efficient muscles help protect joints, so resistance exercise is crucial if you want to keep doing a demanding sport into your golden years. Skiers’ knees, cyclists’ backs, and runners’ Achilles tendons are more prone to injury, and strong hip abductors can help prevent injuries in knees, ankles, and feet. Strengthen the four trouble spots below by doing at least two sets of ten of the suggested exercises several days per week.

Injury Prevention: Resistance is Essential Injury prevention for the aging athlete

important to develop a lifelong habit of physical activity early in life, starting so young and specializing too soon has its risks. It makes kids more prone to burnout, injury, and inactivity later in life, according to the Changing The Game Project, an initiative designed to bring balance...

this has been a falut of the industry fitness/gyms and in competitive sport.. It's only when we move or exerice for its own sake—rather than trying to get something from it—that we find the results we're after...

Stop Rushing to Build Baby Athletes The pressure to enlist kids in competitive sports has us putting four-year-olds on the soccer field. It’s clear they don’t know what they’re doing. And it may be a more harmful decision than you realize.

I use lots of parkour concepts during the rehabilitation

To Be & To Last: A Parkour Documentary

“If you want to play fast – you must train fast.” – Vern Gambetta
“We can’t guarantee that you will be fast but we can make you faster.”
“Move as fast as your technique allows you to.”
“Before dealing with how far and how fast – deal with how to move correctly.


Always great insights to add perspective to your tool box.

Speed Development | Movement Dynamics – Welcome Speed Development Posted on August 20, 2015 by Kelvin Giles One of the great advantages of being part of the GAIN network – a group of practitioners who attend the annual GAIN conference organised and founded by Vern Gambetta (www.gambetta.com) – is the on-going ‘questioning of assumptions’ as membe…

any coach will tell you that adequate rest is part of the training, rather than the absence of it.

Originally from: http://eu.ironman.com/triathlon/news/articles/2015/12/the-other-9-5-sleep-effect-on-training.aspx

The Other 9-5: Smart Training Starts with Sleep How the right amount of sleep at the right time can boost performance.

Many approaches inside traditional practices have been severely distorted and are misunderstood.
The use of various functional, physiological, historical and cultural prisms increase your chances of understanding what, when, if, how much and who. (that was, at least, my attempt at approaching this)
Many training exercises that were developed to enhance a certain attribute were mistaken for actual end goals, I suspect. Simple deductive work, really.
Other drills and practices took on their own culture, central dogma and stage where perhaps it was never intended to be so.

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Movement Research in China I've been training and researching in China for over a week now (out of a total month I will spend here at industrial/rural China) and wanted to share with you a few anecdotes:

There are some good reason to Move

Making a new decision

It's almost impossible to persuade someone that he's wrong. Almost impossible to make your argument louder and sharper and have the other person say, "I was wrong and I will change my mind."

Far more effective: Help someone make a new decision, based on new alternatives and a new story.

Arnold got it right in this passionate invitation to (re) think about our future.

seth godin...

I invite you to learn more about our future on how we move as even in gyms we pay to sit down and exercise...

encourage flexibility, bottom-up idea flow, constant feedback and accountability.. today we need to be able to adapt... Great ted Talk worth a listen....

Agile programming -- for your family Bruce Feiler has a radical idea: To deal with the stress of modern family life, go agile. Inspired by agile software programming, Feiler introduces family practices which encourage flexibility, bottom-up idea flow, constant feedback and accountability. One surprising feature: Kids pick their own pun…

spending too much time playing on electronic games instead of getting outside and being active, that is going to contribute to obesity,"
However, I would also like to see policy makers and healthcare providers looking at some innovative ways to deal with these problems."

Parents Less Likely To Recognise Obesity In Their Own Children It seems parents are wearing rose-tinted glasses when it comes to their kids' health and wellbeing, according to a new study released on Wednesday by The Royal Children's Hospital. The nationwide

one thing has remained the same: to avoid injury, you need burly feet...

The trend in football and in running has seen an increase in minimilistic boots lighter more versatile. However also leads to increase in injuries to ankles if you do not prepare your feet properly to take take the loads which the bigger and bulkeier shoes so called advance technology has taken away from normal proproception.

5 Moves for Stronger Feet As the trends have swung from minimalist slippers to fat shoes and back again, one thing has remained the same: to avoid injury, you need burly feet.