Author: Milo F. Bryant

This column is for the youth coaches and the parents of young athletes. Success begets success! Coaches must remember that when dealing with athletes. They should construct programs, games and drills that ensure the athletes face challenges while ultimately realizing success. This means making things easy for them – at least physically. Mentally, they still…

In my last column, I touched on the topic of 105 seconds of exercise potentially being as beneficial as 30 minutes of jogging. Without getting too technical, this is why. First, a disclaimer: I am not anti-jogging or anti-distance running. It is a form of exercise that many love, and that’s fine! I love it…

It’s time to reach into the mailbag. Thanks for all of your questions. Eventually, I will respond to every email or tackle the issues in this column. The following represent two of the more popular inquiries that I’ve received. Question: Milo, you are a real inspiration to me, and I appreciate all that you have…

Attention, working moms and working dads! I’m talking to you today, letting you know that no matter how much you work, you have time to exercise. I’ve heard all of the reasons why you can’t. Wake up. Shower. Get ready. Wake up kids. Fix breakfast. Make sure kids are ready. Eat. Drop off kids at…

Welcome to confessions of a fitness professional. Well, part confession, part resolution. Confession: I lost my mojo in India. Resolution: Get my mojo back. Some people might believe folks in this business never go through physical ups and downs. After all, we are the ones who are supposed to motivate and encourage and show everybody…

A new year is almost here, and many will be making resolutions concerning physical fitness. Here are a few dos and don’ts to consider while pondering the totality of the fitness-oriented resolution. Do: Take an honest assessment of your current health and fitness level. Don’t: Be embarrassed by what the assessment says. Remember, the first…

Calling another audible. I’ll get back to the development series in a couple of weeks. A mother of one of my young clients was concerned after seeing an athlete on her 12-year-old son’s football team taken off the field on a stretcher. As can happen with some parents, she freaked out. “Should I really have…

There are certain times in our lives when we have the best chance of maximizing our physical potential. At the Coalition for Launching Active Youth, we call these periods Proficiency Portals. They are stages when we can improve movement, strength, speed, spatial awareness, coordination, power, stamina, functional strength and skill. These Proficiency Portals are rooted…

How do we, as a society, go from failing our children (as it relates to physical fitness) to helping them become stronger, faster, more athletic, more confident and more comfortable in expressing themselves physically? The easy answer is for us to move more. Remember, our children mimic what we do more than follow what we…

Put bluntly, we are failing our children. Put nicely, we do not play anymore, and our children do not either. We aren’t making them run, jump, slide, climb, kick, hit and throw the way we did at their age. The present generation, my generation, the 30- and 40-somethings. We are villains, deteriorating our kids as…