In my motor development class we have a discussion about the fitnessgram and activitygram program that has been developed for younger students by the Cooper Institue. When I was reading on the website for it I found it very interesting and thought that people in this class could benefit from it. The topics they teach are important and as coaches we might even consider teaching our players about them a little as well. The cooper institute has a great site for PE major's and I would suggest looking at that. It's cooperinstitute.org  and the fitnessgram/activity gram is a great program that I wish would have be implemented in my schools growing up. It teaches about aerobic capacity, body composition, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. Some of those things I did not learn about until my sophmore year of college and I wish I had learned them sooner. The link for that is: http://www.cooperinstitute.org/ourkidshealth/fitnessgram/documents/FITNESSGRAMRecommendedTestsHandout.pdf and there is more about it on the cooper institute site, but that handout is the basic idea of the program.

Let me know what you think about that program.