Strength Training for Young Athletes

This book is great. I am an ACSM Certified personal trainer, and was considering working with younger athletes. I do know most of this information, but I'm so happy to see that the authors know what they are talking about. Anyone interested in this topic can pick up this book and find it helpful. It has sample macrocycles for various sports, as well as exercises. Superb!

I'm the father of a young athlete and a coach. The information in this book defintely dispells the myth that weight training should wait until the teenage years. I look forward to applying the principals from this book with my son and players.

Good variety of exercises. Very good descriptions and diagrams. Long introductory chapters regarding safety, physical and psychological maturation concerns, and the need for age-appropriate, individualized training regimens.This is a solid, well-organized, and fairly comprehensive treatment, addressing the needs of both young men and young women. By that last part I mean that strength training for girls is given meaningful coverage and not just mentioned as an afterthought.

I bought this forever ago and I don't remember it so it must have gone well with this purchase, so yeah...

Easy to read and explains everything needed to write a program for kids.

This book opens well, with interesting stuff in regard to children, their development and trainability. All this until page 92. from there on begins the pageful exercise inventory. Truly, I was expecting these two modern experts to delve deeper in to exercise technique in this part of their book that could have really exploited its length. There are also some pictures that do not correspond adequately with the exercise description in the text. I was hoping that the exercise technique be developed in a kind of a modern version to Dr. Michael Yessis's outstanding book Kinesiology of Exercise (1992). To my regret, they might have just given a referral to his book, cause they did not do the expected job to that end. what we get at the end of the day, is a book which can be a very good start for the complete novice, yet the strength training professional or the deep enthusiast will remain with all sorts of curious questions as to the hows and the whys of certain techniques' effectiveness and safety.

Very informative. A great breakdown of cycles and circuits.

This book is a solid, standard setting, hand book for coaches training high school level athletes. for those not familiar with strength training as related to high school athletics, this is a must read.

Not yet gone through all the info but sondar deep enough for a technical entry level.

Book is brilliant and shows that what you believe can be done with the younger athlete is true, dispels the myths about what is right or wrong for the younger athlete

Bought as a gift for someone who reported back that it was very useful. Recommended.

Informative not just for the young.