Miles Lee Hargreaves is Bournemouth’s finest youth surfer.  He is the best in the country for his age group and was recently selected to join the Youth GB team in Auckland, New Zealand for the World Championships.  Miles is off to Australia’s High Performance Centre for some intensive training before heading to New Zealand in January 2010 for the world comps.

Good luck Miles, we can’t wait to hear all about your trip down under.

Check out Miles’ awesome surfing.  Let’s not forget too he is only 14 years old!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwPvB4y010Y

A massive thank you to Robbie Yates for an outstanding report…

“When I was appointed Dorset Girls Centre of Excellence director in May 2009 I knew that I had a big task in front of me. The centre runs girls under 10-12-14-16 football teams of up to 20 players per squad.

The main factor I have had try to effect was the girl’s fitness. But the problem I had I did not have a fitness coach to work with. Then my luck changed I was introduced to Rachel Light Head trainer & owner of Young Athletics Training Academy (YATA)

The general fitness of the players ABC’S Aerobic, Anaerobic & fundamental movements were poor.

I asked Rachel (YATA) to design a fitness plan for the season for all age groups. The effects the fitness training has had on the players from Rachel (YATA) has been unbelievable

Football is a sport requiring high levels of physical fitness. It is one of those sports that demands not only speed but agility, strength, power and endurance. Players at top levels can run a total of 14 km in a typical game, not forgetting the frequent accelerations, decelerations, changes of direction and jumps they must undertake.

But you don’t have to be David Beckham to train specifically for football. Fitness is important at all levels of the game. Whilst being essential for elite performers it is beneficial for players of all standards since both their effectiveness and

Enjoyment will improve as they develop their fitness. The aim of fitness training in football is to enable a player to cope with the physical demands of the game as well as allowing the efficient use of his various technical and tactical competencies throughout the match YATA has worked on all the above

This includes general conditioning, aerobic fitness and muscular strength. If you are in good condition then you are less likely to get injuries. Strong muscles are less likely to tear. A player that can keep going for the full game is less likely to be late in a tackle. Good all-round conditioning will balance the body and help avoid necessary injuries. Footballers can get stronger hip flexor muscles through repeated kicking on one side. This twists the pelvis and lower back causing other problems including recurrent hamstring injuries.

Also Nutrition needed to be effected educating the players & parents Rachel (YATA) again set the standards information related to the centre has been of high quality.

The work undertaken has made such a massive impact on all players, feeling better within themselves running styles have improved I can not say in words how much the work performed by YATA has done for the players.

I would have no hesitation in promoting Rachel’s work with YATA to any Organisation in sport her work with the Centre has had the most effect with everyone including my own coaches learning from the session Rachel delivers”.

Robbie Yates

(Dorset Centre of Excellence Director & Community Coach)

The Young Athletes Training Academy Official Merchandise for further information please contact us

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/archive/2009/11/05/swimming/4719989.Dolphins_star_Joe_heads_for_Millfield/

We’ve been so fortunate to have some of the counties finest young athletes answer some questions for us.  Their answers are truly inspirational and definitely ones to watch for the future.  Check out here to read their interviews  http://www.yatasports.com/what-we-do/for-future-stars/

For the last seven weeks I have been working the the Dorset Centre of Excellence for girls football.  I currently train under 10’s, under 12’s, under 14’s and under 16’s.

When I first joined the centre I was concerned at the number of girls whose fitness levels were very poor.  I ran some performance tests and the results were surprising.  It was a task ahead to help improve the girls fitness and their understanding of general health.  For the last seven weeks I have introduced aerobic and strength training to the older girls and with the younger ones concentrated more on the FUNdamental movements of sport.  To our delight we are now starting to see good results.  The older girls are really enjoying the fitness and getting better at their sport.  They all have a better range of movement and there are no injuries at present.  I am confident to say this is because I have drummed in to them about the importance of stretching.

I would like to say a big thank you to Robbie and the other coaches for supporting me and an even bigger thank you to ALL the girls at the centre for listening to me and putting it in to practice.

Rachel xx

Well today Rachel Light was lucky enough to get her photo taken with the official Premiership Trophy.  Check out the photo for the proof  

Rachel is hoping Chelsea FC will take the title again this year…

The Academy is running a special presentation for schools.  We are visiting schools around Dorset to interact with children about the importance of eating the right foods to stay fit and healthy.  The response is fantastic and we can’t wait to set off in a couple of weeks to educate children, parents and teachers  

Rachel Light has descended on Australia with her first visit to Canberra.  On Monday 17th August Rachel will meet with the Australian Institute of Sport and will be shown around their facilities including the Testing and Research Unit for Swimming.  On Tuesday 18th August Rachel Light will visit Swimming Australia, the governing body for Swimming in Australia, she hopes to gain a greater insight in to grass roots level swimming and understand just how they support their athletes right to the top, including funding for the sport and where it gets spent.  On Wednesday 19th August Rachel will take to the studio of ABC 666 Canberra Radio Station for a follow up interview.  Rachel has already been interviewed by one of the presenters.  You can listen to the interview here (Download 2MB: Right Click & “Save Target As”).  After her visit to the studio Rachel will catch a flight to Brisbane for further meetings with sporting organisations.  Stay tuned for further info or contact news@yatasports.com