{"id":4582,"date":"2019-10-02T11:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2019-09-25T12:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T16:24:45","slug":"why-female-athletes-need-to-strength-train-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/blog-post\/why-female-athletes-need-to-strength-train-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Female Athletes Need To Strength Train – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Part one of this blog, we spoke about early specialization, Preparation for the future and reducing risk of injury. Today we will go over the other more looked over benefits of strength training for female athletes! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3.      \nIncreases in Strength                      <\/strong>                                                          <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developing an\nathletes strength capacity can be significantly enhanced through a program that\nuses a variety of forms of resistance training. The ability to coordinate\nmovement and to efficiently recruit muscles in synchronized action are two of\nthe main reasons for the strength improvements. As children age, this is a\nnatural pattern of development but using forms of strength and conditioning\ntraining can expedite the process. Individuals who train twice per week, on\naverage, have 33% higher strength gains than their once session per week\ncounterparts. Stronger athletes perform better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4.  Enjoyment\nin movement and physical activity for a lifetime                 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through\nresearch, we know that those individuals who enjoy movement and physical\nactivity are those who are the most likely to continue a healthy exercise\nlifestyle through their lives. It is much easier to enjoy physical activity\nwhen you move well and with no pain during the process. Strength and\nconditioning is a way to learn how to positively impact movement quality\nthrough mobility and movement training. All movements in our lives have an\noptimal way to be performed and the better you are at performing those\nmovements, the better chance you have of continuing those movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a final\nnote; Always keep in mind that social pressures are a large part of a female\nathlete\u2019s psyche and anything you do to take care of the body you must take\nequal care of their mind. An example of this is something I hear far too often.\nWhenever there is a young girl in the gym, the parents passing through tend to\nmake a comment along the lines of \u201caw, she is so cute\u201d \u2026. Well she is here to\nwork hard not to look cute. By saying that, you teach her to prioritize looking\ncute in the gym over the hard work they are putting in and devaluing that work\nall at the same time. Value the work your girls are putting into the gym and\nnot what they look like while doing so. These pressures are difficult enough to\ndeal with outside the gym and I don\u2019t want that pressure walking in with them\nto every session, practice or game they attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come into SST and see the difference our athlete training programs can make to you or your daughter!<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Part one of this blog, we spoke about early specialization, Preparation for the future and reducing risk of injury. Today we will go over the other more looked over benefits of strength training for female athletes! 3.       Increases in Strength                                                                                 Developing an athletes strength capacity can be significantly enhanced through a program that … Continue reading “Why Female Athletes Need To Strength Train – Part 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-4582","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\/4582","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4586,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions\/4586"}],"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=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}