About this episode

The episode discusses smarter training strategies for youth athletes to enhance resilience and prevent injuries.

What We’re Getting Wrong When Training Youth Athletes Strength, movement quality, and long-term resilience in youth sports with Matthew McKayBuilding resilient athletes isn’t about pushing harder — it’s about training smarter . In Part Two of this two-part series, Matthew McKay returns to the FAKTR Podcast to move from philosophy into real-world application. This episode builds directly on the foundation laid in Part One, shifting the focus toward practical strategies that support long-term athletic resilience, performance consistency, and injury prevention in young athletes. Matthew breaks down why unilateral training reveals what bilateral strength can hide, how movement quality should guide programming decisions, and how even warm-ups can serve as powerful assessment tools when you know what to look for. Rather than chasing short-term performance gains, this conversation emphasizes sustainability — helping athletes stay healthy, adaptable, and available across seasons and stages of development. This episode is especially valuable for healthcare providers, strength coaches, athletic trainers, and anyone working with middle school or high school athletes who want to support…

Topics covered

• youth athletes
• performance training
• injury prevention
• movement quality
• unilateral training
• athletic resilience

Keywords

• strength training
• youth sports
• athletic performance
• long-term resilience
• bilateral strength
• assessment tools

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