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Youth Football Helmets

youth football helmets

These All-Star Catalyst NOP Youth Football Helmets feature a shell constructed with High Impact Resistant ABS plastic. The flared corrugations in the shell are for increased shell strength, improved deflection, and a unique stylized design. All holes and ridges on the helmet are rounded off for no sharp edges. Shell is compatible with 4 point low and high hook-up chin straps. The UltraCool venting system relies on an air channel designed liner and 8 large ventilation ports. The EPP liner combined with the Vinyl Nitrile inserts makes an extremely high energy absorbing helmet.

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Tips on Training for Football

To be a great player on the field for the football season it is important that you train until you achieve total fitness. Football requires that you have speed, strength and endurance for a sustained amount of time. However, keeping these three training “balls” in balance can be challenging. You need to pace for yourself, yet be persistent about your goals. Training for football is also rigorous enough that it can burn you out if you are not careful to pace yourself.

Here are three or the most essential fitness training tips to help you get ready for the football season.

Train for speed as often as you can. It does not matter what position that you play, you must be fast to play the game of football. It is a good idea to us plyometrics to develop the kind of torque that you need to have a lot of power when you are on the field. Practicing shuttle sprints, that require you to start running from a variety of different kneeling positions, are the best way to train your body to increase its speed. As effective as plyometric exercises are it is important to only do them once a week so that your muscles can recover.

Build muscle endurance. Building muscle endurance is about ensuring that you can play until the very end of the game. You will participate to the each of every play in the game. This is called “playing through the whistle.”

One way that you can build your muscles is to incorporate different movements as you do your running exercises such as lifting your knees high. This helps shake your routine up and train your muscles to stay active and recover faster.

Engage in Strength Training. The strongest football players are those who are in peak physical strength. Not every position is the same, so only those ones get a workout during practice games. Be sure to choose workouts that exercise both your upper and lower body. Be sure to bulk up using weights so you have as much heft as possible when you are on the field.

By working all three of these things – your speed, endurance and strength, you can keep up with your teammates and become a formidable enemy to players on other teams. The thing is to be consistent and develop yourself into a total athlete as well as you can.