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By Anita Sherman
Times Newspapers Staff Writer
Remember those halcyon days in the neighborhood, days of kick-the-can, roller skating races and bicycling block after block with friends?
Many parents do, and they regret that their children do not play in the same ways.
"Everything is so organized now," said Bob Allen, head varsity soccer coach at Highland School. "There is less time for natural development. Physical activity is done in more structured formats.
"When we were playing all those neighborhood games, we were developing our neuro-muscular system and being competitive in a more natural setting."
Allen, who heads up a fitness program for fourth and fifth graders at Highland, feels strongly that being physically fit helps everyone, especially children, develop and achieve more in other areas of life.
He is a proponent of competitive sports and, admittedly, most of his fitness training has a direct relation to soccer. In addition to coaching the Highland boys and girls varsity teams, he also coaches an ODSL U-12 boys soccer team, the Fauquier Excel.
The right fit
To maintain his personal fitness, Allen religiously devotes two hours a day, three times a week to a program called Pro-Speed. Designed and run by ex-Greenbay Packer, Rob Brown, it is an intense workout with a lot of resistance training, running and lifting weights.
"We do things like pull tires and •• run with heavy sacks on our backs," said Allen, who drives from Warrenton to Herndon for the program.
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