How to help keep you kids shoulder strength and mobility at its best. Using these bands will keep your shoulders healthy and will increase your shoulder strength to keep shoulder structure intact. Crossover Symmetry - End Shoulder Pain - Push Performance (Symmetry, C. 2025) These bands can be used for whatever exercises or sport that you are doing.
1. Assess where you are at physically and where we need to start.
Different kids at different ages may think that they can go straight to the max bands but need to start out small and increase resistance over time. Focus on incremental stair steps each time that you do the exercises to prevent injuries.
2. Setting Goals that are achievable.
Setting goals for an athlete is one if not the most important things anybody can do. If an athlete doesn't set goals, how are they supposed to know if they are making strides forwards or standing still. Principles of Goal Setting (Monsma, 2007)
Principles of Goal Setting:
- Make goals that are specific and obtainable: Write down what specifically do you want to get better at (Ex. improve movement and muscle tone in shoulder)
- Identify how often to exercise: How many times do you want to do shoulder exercises in a week (Ex. 4 times a week morning and night)
- How difficult is the goal to achieve: Make sure that the goal is not to easy but not too hard. Want to be able to push yourself past what you think you can do to achieve. (Ex. I want to do my shoulder exercises 4 times a week morning and night but could push to 5 to 6 days a week if body feels up to it)
- Strategize on who can keep you accountable and motivated: Pick a friend or teammate that will push you to want to get better and will be their if things get rough.
3. Incorporate into normal practices, games and workouts.
- After you have stretched and have gotten a sweat going, then incorporate these into routine before activity starts.
Recap:
Make sure that you start off small and work up from there. The better of a foundation that you can build to work off of the better you will be in the long run. Take small steps to big gain later.
References:
Monsma, E. (2007). Principles of effective goal setting. Principles of Effective Goal Setting | Association for Applied Sport Psychology. https://appliedsportpsych.org/resources/resources-for-athletes/principles-of-effective-goal-setting/
Symmetry, C. (Ed.). (2025). End shoulder pain - push performance. Crossover Symmetry. https://crossoversymmetry.com/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=JRB+-+Branded+Search+By+Name+Ads&msclkid=5744e5c3a20a132bc84682198ea29643
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