The Blog
Plain-language writing on youth development, the three training windows, and what the urgency machine of youth sports gets wrong. No hype, no jargon.
Nobody voted to turn childhood into a season that never ends. It happened one reasonable decision at a time. How youth sports became an arms race, and what it quietly costs.
Read article →Youth sports sells urgency, not development. There is a biological order to building an athlete: wire movement, adapt through growth, then build force. Train it in sequence, and the kid who looks behind catches up.
Read article →Most decisions that damage young athletes trace back to three lies, each one with a business model behind it. Here is what they are, and what to do instead.
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