Welcome to NASM’s How to Train Youth Athletes Effectively and Efficiently Mini Course
The future of sports is ready and waiting to be trained. It's time to build the foundation to allow you to help them reach their potential.
This course will help you get there!
Within this mini course, you will find the following content:
- 55-minute Podcast:
"Training Youth Athletes" - 1-hour Webinar:
"Fitness Games for Youth Athletes: Performance and Fun" - Articles:
"Teaching Kids Sports"
"Enhancing General Fitness and Athletic Performance for Children" - 10-Page Downloadable PDF:
"Stand Up to Childhood Obesity"
To learn more about training youth athletes, check out our Youth Exercise Specialization. This includes the Youth Exercise Specialization, Performance Enhancement Specialization, and Personal Trainer Certification, all of which will provide you with the skills and knowledge to work with children ages 6-19.
Podcast
NASM-CPT Podcast: Training Youth Athletes
With our lives being spent more indoors—whether because of restrictions around COVID-19 or higher interest in things like video games and Netflix—it's never been more critical for today's youth to stay active. But how do we not only empower our teens and kids to be engaged in fitness but train effectively? NASM Master Instructor and host Rick Richey is joined by Mike Bracko, EdD, to discuss how to train younger athletes while keeping things fun and interesting. The two discuss how to reenergize your youth programming, the challenges of training younger clients, and much more.
Love podcasts? NASM has a whole podcast network! Check out our shows: The NASM-CPT Podcast with Rick Richey, NASM Master Instructor Roundtable, Random Fit, Strong Mind, Strong Body & NASM-CPT Chapter Review
Webinar
Fitness Games for Youth Athletes: Performance and Fun
Kids love to play! So, let's capture their attention by creating fitness games that will motivate them while providing a fun avenue to improve their fitness and sports performance. As most kids don't tend to like long, slow distance-type exercise, fitness games that feature short bursts of activity followed by rest are just the ticket! Come to this engaging workshop to get ideas on capturing the attention of this population with relay races, partner drills, and exercise tag, all while teaching proper exercise techniques. This session has it all for trainers who are looking to reenergize their youth programming or wish to learn new strategies for training children and adolescents.
Earn 0.1 CEUs for this webinar by signing up for NASM One Membership, and get access to our CEU Library of over 300 courses.
Articles
Teaching Kids Sports
This article will show you how to encourage ‘athletes-to-be' to move and move well. It covers:
- How sports can help children move effectively
- Why and how to encourage children to do sports
- 6 important sports skills for children
- Youth sports programing
- And much more
Enhancing General Fitness and Athletic Performance for Children
Help harness children's desire and need to move and play and use it as a positive learning tool. In this article, you'll learn:
- Suggestions for keeping kids healthy
- Does specializing in sports make youth athletes special?
- Is athleticism a learned skill or an innate ability?
- Core training for youth athletes
- And much more
Downloadable PDF
Stand Up to Childhood Obesity: How Fitness Pros Can Impact the Future
In this downloadable PDF, you'll learn the science behind the sources of this troubling trend, its sobering effects on children's quality of life, and the steps you can take to help set up youth for lifelong health.
Earn 0.2 CEUs for reading this article by purchasing the course and CEU quiz here.
