Welcome back to the Barbell Medicine Podcast, where we bring Modern Medicine to

Strength and Conditioning to Modern Medicine.

I'm your host Dr. Jordan Vaginbaum, and this is part four of the Resistance Training

for Youth Series written by Dr. Derek Miles.

If you haven't checked out the first three parts, you can head over to our website,

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W.org, and read all three

parts if you want to listen instead I've narrated the first three parts which I've

linked in the description below without further do let's get into part four of

the resistance training for Youth Series.

A variety of training modalities are included in the long-term athletic developmental model, included core, balance,

plyometric, and resistance training.

Aside from sport specific skills, these form the base upon which athletic potential is built.

This section will serve as a review of the role of each of these modalities within the design of a training program. Different activities involve these components to different degrees. There is not a minimal effective dose needed for each training modality and some such as core training

likely need better definitions before any specific training parameters can be laid out.

For example, a child developing balance skills is also likely improving trunk control or

their core and resistance training involving odd shaped objects likely

involves balance work as well. Arbitrary delineation of what constitutes

balance, pliometric, and even resistance training leads to arbitrary prescriptions for those modalities.

While involving components of each is recommended, approaching athletic development as a spectrum of skills

is a better operational framework for improving overall athletic performance. Core training.

Before we can discuss a particular training modality,

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