{"id":4572,"date":"2019-09-25T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2019-09-25T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T16:19:07","slug":"why-female-athletes-need-to-strength-train-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/blog-post\/why-female-athletes-need-to-strength-train-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Female Athletes Need To Strength Train – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The girls I see coming into the facility always out train the boys; gone are the days where we will accept the phrase \u201c—-like a girl\u201d to mean something inherently wrong, especially when it comes to sports! Female Athletes need to be taken just as seriously as their male counterparts, that goes for every aspect of their chosen sport and will benefit from strength and conditioning programs. With the trend towards early sport specialization becoming more common in young athletes, it is important to ensure that female athletes are competent in a broad spectrum of movements from a young age so that they are well rounded and able to perform their sports activities in the safest manner possible. The following four points (Points 1 &2 in part one and Points 3&4 in part two) highlight how strength and conditioning can be useful for your female athlete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1.      \nPreparation for the Future                                                                              <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past\n10 years, long term athletic development (LTAD) and youth physical development\n(YPD) have been the cornerstone models for development of young athletes. These\ntwo distinct approaches use a holistic view to training so that age, growth,\nmaturity and training level are all taken into consideration when a program is\ndesigned for an individual. Strength and conditioning training has a\nsignificant role in ensuring that young athletes become more coordinated,\nstable and strong as they advance through their athletic careers. It is important\nthat young athletes are proficient in movement basics so that their platform\nfor growth and development continues along an upward trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2.      \nReduced Injury Risk<\/strong>                                                                                       \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite\nconcerns in the past that strength training is harmful for young athletes, it\nhas been revealed that strength and conditioning can make a developing athlete\n\u201cmore resistant to injury\u201d (NSCA, 2008). A higher level of motor control and a\nbetter understanding of how their body moves in space, allows an athlete to\ntake more control over their injury prevention. Strategies of how to correctly\nstabilize the core, distribute bodyweight and resist force are all areas which\ncan lower the risk of injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A properly designed strength and conditioning program guards against over development of a specific set muscle group from playing a sport year round (specializing), by incorporating exercises to balance and provide joint stability for sport specific movement. The most balanced, strong and coordinate athletes are the athletes who are least likely to be injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in learning more about your preparation and reducing injury risk please email us at bskinner@sstcanada.com <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look out for Part @ of this blog!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The girls I see coming into the facility always out train the boys; gone are the days where we will accept the phrase \u201c—-like a girl\u201d to mean something inherently wrong, especially when it comes to sports! Female Athletes need to be taken just as seriously as their male counterparts, that goes for every aspect … Continue reading “Why Female Athletes Need To Strength Train – Part 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4580,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/4580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}