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Another great piece from USA Hockey looking at the athletes role in development. If you are nagging your kid at 14 to work out, shoot pucks, stickhandle etc. you are probably wasting your time. If they don’t want it at 14, they probably won’t ever.

When Development Becomes the Players Responsibility

Should My Child Be Playing Up

Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2014 by mboyle1959

This is a good piece from USA Hockey on playing up. I must confess my daughter had always played up. One piece of advice from my friend Kevin Kneeld. ” if your son or daughter is not one of the five best players on their team, they do not need to play up”. This makes a lot of sense to me. If your child plays up and is a very strong offensive player at the higher levels from a hockey standpoint it can be beneficial to play up. If your child plays up and struggles to score move them back down. The key is to be able to be an offensive player at any level you play at. Players who play up and suddenly become grinders, dumping pucks in, are going backward not forward in development. My son is a late December birthday and struggles a bit at his age level in the first year of each level as he plays against kids almost two years older in some cases. He really can’t play up.

The other issue to deal with in playing up is the psycho-social aspect of being around older kids and being in the dressing room and hearing conversations they don’t need to hear. You need to consider that aspect also as you chase “development”.

Should My 10 Year Old Play Up?

Top Five Core Exercises (Video)

Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2014 by mboyle1959

Check out a recent video we filmed at MBSC

http://www.boston.com/health/2014/09/15/five-strength-training-moves-build-your-core/BTobLjxYMMt39GHub0qdgJ/story.html

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A Possible Cause to Celiac Disease

Posted in Guest Authors, MBSC News, Media, Nutrition with tags Glyphosate and Celiac on September 15, 2014 by mboyle1959

Check out this article from Mercola.com on a potential cause to celiac disease.

Why the Use of Glyphosate in Wheat has Increased Celiac Disease

FYI the research was done at MIT.

MBSC Internship Part 5

Posted in Guest Authors, MBSC News, Strength Coach Podcast, StrengthCoach.com Updates, Training, Training Females, Youth Training on September 7, 2014 by mboyle1959

This is Daniel’s last post in the series about his summer internship at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning

MBSC Internship Part 5

Want To Stink This Winter? I Have the Answer

Posted in Uncategorized on September 4, 2014 by mboyle1959

Read this if you haven’t, reread it if your young athlete is preparing for a winter sport.

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Catchy title? This article is for all you parents who are trying to help your kid get in shape for a winter sport. I spoke with a mom the other day who inspired me to write this. There is a saying I use often in my talks. It is in fact the title of this article.

If you want your child to perform poorly this winter I have the answer. The answer is cross country. I have had countless parents over the years tell me that they can’t figure out why little Janie or Johnny had such a bad winter sports season. They worked so hard in the fall, running all those miles.

Lets get some facts straight. There are no team sports where you run for miles at a time. Even if you actually “run” miles in a game, those miles are actually a series of sprints interspersed with…

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