Change can manifest disaster for a child with autism. Here are three steps to follow when presenting something NEW in the training schedule.
These areas will significantly increase how a child is progressing in the gym.
Blaine needs this training to help address the stress and frustrations he will have all his life.
Using some basic equipment from elitefts, here are four easy and inexpensive ways to make typical exercises child friendly.
Every client has the right to an effective program. It’s all about applying accommodating, modifying, and offering support.
All fell victim to this except for Matt Goodwin, who has become so accustomed to such wet bugle blasts as to not notice.
“I like training athletes, but when you can help a child walk or save someone’s life, that’s a big deal.”
Dave and I planned that Tuesdays would be a good day that Blaine and I could routinely work together.
Dave wants the best for his son; he wants the world for his son; a world that also balances movement, strength, exertion, all with a self-motivating willingness to be active.
April is Autism awareness month. Reliable, accurate, and useful information should be accessible to those faced with the diagnosis of a loved one and the inevitable challenges that will arise.
Whether you are training high school athletes, professional sports icons, or people with special needs, you’re working with human movement and behavior..and there will always be underlying correlations.
It’s often a challenge to train an unmotivated client or a client with special needs. However, if you can apply some basic behavioral fundamentals, you can be empowered to take control of your training sessions and help your client reach his/her goals.
It’s an area that is in dire need of attention; however, basic programming knowledge will not suffice. If you want to help children with disabilities, specialized knowledge and insight must first be gained.
Getting kids to exercise is never the easiest of tasks, especially when working with those who need a little more attention. However, it’s all about finding what brings them joy.
Rather than just being the guy called in to school when mom is angry, dads have a valuable roles and responsibilities. Involving and encouraging fathers to be directly involved is critical.
It has been nearly a year since I last had a bad day and I feel like a completely different person now.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a significant issue impacting countless children.
If there’s one thing I learned over the course of the past five years, it’s how to train by myself and be successful.
Each step you take towards getting your child the support he needs, is one more step towards your child having the most fulfilling life possible.
I saw a chance to pull out and hide and took it. This is not something I’m afraid to admit.
I already had my column for the week done (“Aggression”) when I received this email from my mother.
Many things have changed since I wrote the book Under the Bar. Looking back, it seems like forever since I sat down to write it.
We are two different people and his experiences will not be the same as mine; they will be his own. I want SO badly for him to not to go through the things I did, that it’s taken me a long time to see that he won’t.
It seems to be a generally accepted fact that exercise has a positive impact on depression and anxiety.
Nobody quits “one day at a time.” Quitting doesn’t happen that way.
If you clicked on this article because you think you can relate, because you think I’m going to be talking about being ‘addicted to iron,’ addicted to the feel of a heavy barbell on my back, addicted to the way your throat tightens up from breathing in chalk dust or addicted to the whiff of a snapped ammonia cap, just pass on through.
If you’re in the military, or you’re a police officer or fireman, or you work some other job where you’re under considerable amounts of stress on a regular basis, you’re going to want to read this article.
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