Tag Archives: flexibility

Conditioning in young sports people

By Shona Hendricks - Sport Scientist and Strength and Conditioning Coach | Published: April 30, 2012
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There are many misconceptions about training young sports people. While certain of these may have some truth to them, there are general guidelines to training young sports people. In this article we will be focusing on athletes in late childhood/early puberty phase. In this age group children will be experiencing normal growth development as this [...]

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Strength training exercises for children

By Licinda Liebenberg - Biokineticist and Sport Scientist | Published: February 6, 2012
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Last week we introduced you to the principles and safe guidelines to strength training for children. In this article we provide you with 4 examples of some exercises that children can safely undertake as long as the guidelines are adhered to. To re-emphasis some of the key points to remember: The exercises should be age [...]

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Strength training guidelines for children

By Licinda Liebenberg - Biokineticist and Sport Scientist | Published: January 27, 2012
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Can children participate in strength training programmes? A collaboration between Licinda Liebenberg and Dr. Kim Nolte (PhD – Human Movement Sciences) Strength training can be defined as a method of improving muscular strength by gradually increasing the ability to resist force through the use of free weights, machines, or the person’s own body weight. Strength [...]

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Do’s and don’ts of stretching

By Jeff Malan - Biokineticist | Published: October 6, 2011
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A collaboration between Guillaume (Jeff) Malan and Dr. Kim Nolte (PhD – Human Movement Sciences).   Most people know that stretching can be beneficial specifically in terms of injury prevention and sports performance. However, it is important that stretches are performed correctly in order to get the benefits of the stretches therefore this article addresses [...]

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