Freeman Circuit
Need the floor and a seat. Start with 30 seconds of pushups. Then lay on back with knees bent and rolled to one side and lift top part of body (don’t strain neck look up). Swap to other side. Lay on floor face down – lift up on toes and arms. Now put feet on chair and face floor leaning on vertical hands. Lift on hand to chin.
At age 35 you reach peak bone mass It’s all downhill after that losing bone and muscle mass.
Start building strength from the day you are born to put bone and muscle in your bone and muscle bank. It will protect you against osteoporotic injury later.
By 2025 one in three hospital beds will be filled with an osteoporotic fracture. We need to avoid this.
It will save a lot of money if kids get active and avoid osteoporotic fractures later. It is like saving a dollar a week every week until age 35.
The danger in training kids with resistance training is damaging growth plates with too great stress. Be sensible. Start at body weight. Move to medicine balls and little weights.
Swimming is not load-bearing. They can fit more training sessions in than say runners.
Sit-ups have gone out of fashion.
Don’t go and ask the party animal how they’re feeling. Ask the diligent fellow.
Team goals – is it just a fun team or are we trying to win the premiership? Get the team to talk to players who are letting the team down.
Every time you get an athlete doing an activity you should be able to say: The reason you’re doing this activity is… If you don’t know/ can’t say it’s probably a stupid activity.