Friday, September 21, 2012

CAAT Program

My 20 month old daughter knows what a squat is and we work on pushing her knees out when she squats, the same as I do with my 20 year old athletes.   Teaching the proper movement pattern for these young children ensure that they are successful with these movements as they age.  If a child learns how to use their hips to create force for kicking, throwing and/or punching then they will be successful in any rotational based sport.  Teaching these basic patterns are essential to a child's success in sport and that's why we developed our CAAT (complete athletic ability training) program.  In this program for 6-11 year olds we work on correctly establishing basic movement patterns that will transfer into greater athletic ability as the children age.  Many parents put children in organized sports on a year round basis but most of those sport coaches don't understand correct movement patterns or how to teach them.  This leads to the state of our children today who have poor overall athleticism but have very high sport skill due to the time spent practicing actual sport skill.  I've seen many children who could juggle a soccer ball like a pro but can't run or jump properly so they don't excel at their sport because of the lack of overall athleticism.  Don't let your child fall into this trap and enroll them in our CAAT program so that they have the tools they need to succeed in any sport they choose.

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