[ 🏃 ] 6 Questions About Kids & Training
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
🤙🏼 Weekly Newsletter & the Chase Club
Empowering Kids in Sports: Listener Questions
We’re taking listener questions that revolve around helping kids with fitness, sports, and training.
Topics include the best activities for improving strength and movement patterns, the right approach to balancing sports participation for young athletes, the importance of focusing on fun and inclusion in youth sports, effective training methods, and how to appropriately introduce weights to kids. Alongside practical advice for parents and coaches, we also discuss ways to support children’s physical development without compromising their well-being.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview
00:29 Listener Questions Introduction
02:45 Question 1: Balancing Training and Variety for Kids
05:41 Question 2: Prioritizing Inclusivity in Youth Sports
12:21 Question 3: Pre-Season Training for Young Athletes
17:12 Thanks to our Sponsors: Momentous & the Defender 110
19:45 Question 4: Introducing Weights to Young Athletes
24:13 Question 5: CrossFit for Younger Teens
27:04 Question 6: Strength Training Focus for Teen Athletes
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ABOUT THE SHOW
We answer listener questions about health, fitness, fulfillment, and what it takes to chase what truly matters. New episodes on Tuesdays & Fridays.
ABOUT US
📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, writer, and podcaster. Find him on Instagram.
Transcript
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| 0:22.0 | Welcome to Park City, Utah. Naturally, Winter's favorite town. |
| 0:25.0 | Join the experience at visit Park City.com. And the Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence, a show about Chasing What Truly Matters. |
| 0:49.4 | My name is Patrick Cummings, as always here with Ben Bergeron. Thank you so much for tuning into the show this time around. How are you been? |
| 0:56.3 | Doing good, Patrick. |
| 0:57.5 | I am excited about this episode. We have listener questions, but listener questions focused on a particular area. |
| 1:05.6 | So we're going to focus on our move bucket or our train bucket. |
| 1:09.4 | And inside of that, we've got a bunch of questions six specifically six questions from parents |
| 1:14.7 | about helping their kids with fitness slash sports slash training so if you're new here |
| 1:21.3 | we often answer questions from our listeners inside of the five factors of health. |
| 1:25.0 | Real quick, those five factors, how we eat, how we move, how we think, connect and recover. |
| 1:29.0 | So I'm excited about the six questions we've got. |
| 1:31.0 | Couple little things in advance of that one just a reminder if you |
| 1:35.5 | would like to get a question into a future episode like the folks in this episode did |
| 1:39.7 | chasing excellence dot email is the best fastest and most efficient way to do it. |
| 1:44.0 | We send out an email on the weekends with a link to a forum. |
| 1:47.2 | We welcome you and invite you to ask as many questions as you've got and we thank you in |
| 1:51.6 | advance for it. |
| 1:53.0 | If you would like you can jump into our chase club |
| 1:55.2 | which is just our premium membership |
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