My son plays youth soccer for Carmel United. He has for a few years, and loves it. I’m proud of the progress he’s made.

Soon we’re going to start a youth soccer conditioning program to run during the winter. As you can tell, I’ve got a vested interest in the program. Better conditioning improves game performance but it also helps with injury prevention. For parents, that has to be a priority.

Fitness By Design has done youth fitness in the past but it has been quite awhile. I’m looking forward to doing this. Working with young athletes is quite different than working with adults but I’m excited about the opportunity. Because of their youth, their bodies can adapt so quickly to new challenges. It will be fun to watch how their fitness improves at a rapid pace.

The goal of the program is to improve the overall conditioning of the players. Soccer specific skills will not be a focus. As we do in the group fitness classes, we’ll work a lot on basic functional movements, developing endurance,strength, and agility. And we’ll have some fun.  I do expect a few rounds of dodge ball. The boys will love that.

Our fitness boot camp room is a perfect place for these workouts. Depending on how this goes we could expand on the program in the future. Youth sports are huge and many of the clubs simply don’t have the time, space, or expertise to really focus on the conditioning aspect of sports training.

Be sure to contact us if you’re interested in your child joining the program for the winter.