🚨 Growth spurts are sidelining young athletes—and most coaches have no idea why. Are you making the same mistakes? 🚨 Young athletes aren’t adults, and they can’t be trained like adults. Yet, many coaches apply the same training methods to growing bodies, leading to injuries, poor movement, and burnout before athletes ever reach their full potential. Coaches focus on technique, fitness, and skill development, but ignoring how the body changes during growth can make long standing problems. Back pain, movement issues, and overuse injuries are skyrocketing in youth sports because coaches are training young athletes like mini-adults instead of adapting to their rapid growth and maturation phases. In this episode, I sit down with Angela Jackson, who is an youth athlete physio and an expert in youth athletic development, to expose why so many young athletes are breaking down—and what coaches MUST do to prevent it. 💡 In this episode, you’ll learn: ✅ Why growth spurts increase injury risk—and what coaches MUST do about it. ✅ The biggest mistakes coaches make when managing young athletes. ✅ How ignoring maturation leads to long-term movement dysfunction & injury. ✅ How to adjust training without holding athletes back. ✅ The red flags every coach should recognise before it’s too late. 🔥 Ignoring growth & maturation isn’t just a mistake—it’s a career-ending risk. When coaches don’t adapt training, young athletes suffer from chronic pain, long-term movement issues, and even early burnout from sport. This episode will teach you how to stop that. 📩 Connect with Angela Jackson on LinkedIn  📚 Check out Kids Back 2 Sport where Angela shares tonnes of insights and resources designed for any Sports Coach  Want to learn more about injuries and how you can manage them as Sports Coach/PE teacher, check this out! Work in Cricket? Angela has some great resources for coaches to learn about how they can safely manage injuries! 👉 If this episode gave you valuable insights: ✅ Like the episode to help more coaches & practitioners find this content. 💬 "Have you ever coached an athlete struggling with back pain or movement issues after a growth spurt? What did you do? Drop your thoughts in the comments!" 📢 Share this with a sports coach, PE teacher, or S&C professional who needs to hear this. 📩 Subscribe for more expert insights on athlete development, coaching, and sports science. #AthleteDevelopment #YouthAthletes #StrengthAndConditioning #Coaching #InjuryPrevention #GrowthAndMaturation #SportsScience #PhysicalEducation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices