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15/09/2026

Noticed your child isn’t that engaged in training?

Here’s 4 things I like to make sure are incorporated into training for youth athletes 🙌

14/09/2026

The timing of the growth spurt can have a really big impact on your young athletes experience in sport - which is why I explained what those difference can look like and how you can help.

13/09/2026

Don’t tell my mum the bit about not doing the physio exercises 😂

But in all seriousness I reflect on this a lot as an adult and it’s quite clear why just resting and being given physio exercises on a piece of paper didn’t work for 13 year old Ben.

Just being told I needed to do a few rehab exercise each week wasn’t enough for me as a young teenager.

Doing some exercises from a piece of paper was boring, uninspiring and lacked engagement.

It was easy for another week to roll by without me doing those exercises - I’d keep lying to my Mum/ the physio each week saying yes I had stood on the bosu ball on one leg and done some of the band exercises…

Really what I needed was guidance on how to properly strength training in a way that was engaging for me at 13.

what would have been even more ideal is if I had something in place to follow to develop my overall athleticism.

At 13 years old i actually started going to the gym but just ended up doing lots of cardio as I had no idea what I was doing there.

I remember going to the gym for the first time and my older brother asking me if I wanted to train strength or cardio. I remember being too scared/ embarrassed to say I didn’t know the difference so I just said cardio. So he took me to the cardio room and I did a cross trainer for an hour…

I did want to train from a young age - I was motivated, there just wasn’t a plan in place for me.

The good thing is times have changed, we’re become so much more aware of all the positive things that can be done.

Your young athlete can really make meaningful changes in performance.

And even more importantly your young athlete can significantly reduce the risk of getting an injury in sport 🙌

11/09/2026

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, engagement is the currency of training youth athletes.

If you get good engagement what comes with that is good intent. That intent drives the outcome. Whether it’s intensity or focus.

With better intent in training sessions comes better training adaptions for youth athletes in my opinion. Plus, if it’s engaging they’re more likely to show up and train again week on week.

Thats why I love using challenge with young athletes. Not just because “they’re fun”. For me, it’s about using their attention/ driving their intent to get better training adaptions.

Not because I’m trying to turn a youth athlete into a super star.

But because I know what it takes from a physical development perspective to really make meaningful changes to their confidence, physical abilities and reducing risk of injury in the future 🙌

09/09/2026

Jumping isn’t just about helping young athletes become more explosive. It can actually change the developing skeleton.

In this study, prepubertal boys completed a pretty simple jumping intervention for 7 months. Just 10 minutes, 3x per week.

And they saw greater improvements in bone mineral measures at several sites compared with the control group.

This is important because childhood and adolescence give us a huge opportunity to develop stronger, more resilient bones. Jumping, landing, sprinting and strength training all expose the skeleton to the types of forces that can drive these adaptations.

There was one interesting caveat in this study though.

The boys above the 75th percentile for BMI didn’t see the same changes. One possible explanation is simply that their greater body mass made it harder to perform the jumping exercises as effectively and therefore get the same stimulus. But that’s a potential explanation, rather than something this study actually proved.

For the majority of the children though, the jumping intervention had a positive effect on bone development, and this isn’t the only study to show it.

It’s another reason why I think we need to look beyond just making young athletes faster or stronger right now.

What we expose them to during these years can help build the physical foundations they’ll carry with them into adulthood.

08/09/2026

What age can your child start strength training?

Well, we need to reframe that question a little bit to get full clarity.

But, it’s probably earlier than you anticipated 🙌

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