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physiquality blog: how to prepare for sports tryouts

Athletes (and that includes those that try out for cheerleading and dance teams) often need to tryout or audition every year to stay on the team. For some kids, this can cause a great deal of stress or anxiety as they try to make sure they can continue to do a sport that they love. […]

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physiquality blog: playing football safely

I’ll admit, this was a tough one to write. We are parents of a boy and have recently moved to Texas; football is not a sport down here — it’s a religion. As my husband and I watched the Bears play the Packers on Sunday night, I asked him if our “touch football only” rule […]

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physiquality blog: how to play hockey safely

The title of this month’s blog post may sound like an oxymoron, but it is possible to reduce injuries in hockey, the only sport where some players still fight to play without a helmet. Smart players and athletes know that it is better to think about your body for the long term, and making sure […]

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physiquality blog: preventing baseball injuries

With professional baseball season in full swing, here’s a reminder for baseball parents that perhaps year-round baseball isn’t such a good idea. As I’ve written about in the past for Physiquality, playing multiple sports throughout the year strengthens athletes’ skill sets and lets stressed muscles from one sport rest while another set is tested. That’s […]

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physiquality blog: why are younger athletes burning out of sports?

My family lived in the South for four years. Being Midwesterners, certain things made us remember that we weren’t from around there. The use of a plural you (as in, “you all”). The prevalence of pimento cheese. The obsession with SEC football. But one thing caught me off guard — the number of baseball teams […]

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