When working with today’s youth, our focus at Dynamic Sports Performance is on giving children and parents a lifelong knowledge and understanding of well-being and physical excellence. Two of our major concerns are: the continuous rise of childhood obesity and sport-related injuries. Nearly forty-five percent of all children in the United States are obese, and nearly eighty percent of all sport-related injuries reported last year were “non-impact injuries”, meaning that they could have been prevented.
The rise in obesity is due to children’s lack of exercise as well as poor eating habits that are common in this “pre-packaged” food age. With the hectic lifestyles families lead and both parents having to work, the result many nights is fast food and pizza delivery for dinner, and consequently for the main source of nutrition. The popularity of computers and video games has made our children sedentary. Years ago, children played from sun up until sun down and attended physical education class everyday. Today, we are seeing physical education classes and sports dwindle away in many schools.
Sport-related injuries can be attributed to two main causes- overuse injuries and inferior athletic development programs in today's sport performance facilities and schools. Overuse injuries have been linked to specializing in one particular sport at a young age and/or being involved in too many sports/activities during one time (i.e. going from two hours of basketball practice to playing in a baseball tournament, and then finishing with an hour-long pitching lesson all in the same day.)
At Dynamic Sports Performance we are dedicated to" Long-Term Athletic Development" as opposed to "quick fixes" or "instant gratification." Children are not "little adults", yet many of today's sport performance programs train children the same way they would train an adult professional athlete. Proper athletic development for our youth should be done in stages, and should be approached the same way our educational curriculum is set up. After all, we wouldn't teach a fourth-grader calculus, nor would we expect a junior in high school to be able to have the experience in the working world to manage a business. It's a building process, and when you try to speed the process up, the end result will be a weak foundation.
We believe that youth conditioning programs should be focused more on teaching instead of training, and quality is more important than quantity. Our programs are classified into three fitness stages based on needs at different ages.
- "Guided Discovery"- 6-9 years
- "Learning Exploration"- 10-13 years
- " Train with Application"- 14-18 years. This program was introduced by the International Youth Conditioning Association (IYCA), and has been proven to create a healthy well balanced athlete.
If you would like your child or teenager to develop into a strong, healthy, and superior athlete, or you just want your child to live a long, healthy life with a great fitness foundation that he or she can carry for a lifetime....... let DSP lead the way.
