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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m realizing my two boys are really fit, fast, energetic. They can climb trees, run forever, and they have endurance for long bike rides. Muscular builds run in both mine and DH’s genes.

But, in sports, they don’t have confidence, focus, or aggressiveness. They’re always short on height too.

Our experiences in rec so far have them in the 45th percentile of all players….not bad but sometimes not contributing well.

I thought we’d find a sport for them. They’re individually, respectively, liking soccer and basketball. It hit me recently that the same kids that are top in basketball, are top in baseball, are top in soccer, any sport, if they want to be.

What’s the fitness plan for my kids until high school? More than ever, more than in the 90s and 00s, you can really lose a kid to video games. Well, my kids LOVE computers and games. It’s antithetical to my worldview to allow that to be their life. (Part of their life, ok.)

Keep them in rec? Does it help or hurt confidence? Rec is way more skilled and competitive. I wish there was a size and skill breakdown instead of age breakdown, but I understand the ease of the age breakdown…

Thoughts?[/quote]

You can get book(s) on fitness plans.  I highly recommend this.  Filled in my gaps for sure.  Even with private lessons, parents do a substantial amount of planning her.  I mean a one-hour session isn't a plan.

You can look up certain metrics.  For example: many of the best athletes are in the 6'2"-6'2" range across the board because speed and strength.  Marathoners and distance cyclists can be shorter like exactly average in height.   Ball throwing sports long arms are a huge advantage: QB's, Pitchers, Basketball etc. Ironically even ping pong can benefit from long arms even with slower reflexes.  Shorter athletes often times like speed but their real magic is agility/reflexes eg gymnastics, acrobatics, martial arts (inertia is not your friend).  Very agile shorter athletes are actually IMO very rare.  I wish there were better options, like why don't we play cricket in the US.  I mean I don't dig it, but it would be nice for more kids to have options here.  My suspicion these kids aren't into athletics that much or there would be more of those sports.  I will say, short kids do like basketball, because it is a relatively civilized game compared to soccer, they just don't do well at it in the long run.[/quote]

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