Chrissy Cannellas soccer future appears bright. She received several Division I offers. She has played for travel teams and in national camps.

Cannella, a Cornwall senior, refuses to let her right knee stop her despite it sparking an emotional August conversation with Cornwall coach Amanda Greenblatt.

A midfielder, Cannella played at a U.S. soccer team camp in 2012 in Carson, Calif. Then 14, she turned wrong during a drill and felt a pop in her right knee. The pain forced her into shock. Cannella had torn her anterior cruciate ligament. She needed more than a year to fully regain health.

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Although the larger impact of sub-concussive hits is unknown, athletes who participate in soccer year-round clearly risk overuse injuries. The rate of overuse injuries continues to rise while the average age of kids affected by such injuries decreases, according to the STOP (Sports Trauma and Overuse Protection) Sports Injuries campaign.

Overuse injuries arent exclusive to soccer. But Rick Scarpulla, a sports trainer and owner of Ultimate Advantage Training in Fair Oaks outside Middletown, says he most often sees soccer and basketball players suffer consequences of playing one sport year-round. That includes emotional perils.

In my experience, a large percentage of athletes that play a sport year-round with no shutdown period rarely make it to the upper levels of playing their sport, Scarpulla said, because theyre so sick of it that the sport they once loved as a child is something that they can hardly stand the word of now.

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In this episode of STACK Fitness Weekly, Rick Scarpulla provides a detailed explanation of how to build a bigger Bench Press by altering your technique and approach to the exercise.

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Understanding Your CNS & Recovery Needs

What makes a good strength and conditioning coach? How can you tell a good coach from a bad one? Can anyone become a good coach? Should good coaches, or coaches in general, be judged purely on wins and losses? What is the most important attribute of a coach?

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Many of the best strength coaches regularly share their techniques and offer tips via social media. Although you may not work directly with these coaches, you can get a glimpse of what they are doing to help their athletes get better. So whether youre an athlete, team coach or strength coach, it would be wise to follow these experts in 2015.

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I find it slightly humorous how things go in phases when it comes to strength training and conditioning. It seems that a few people start the drum-beating and before you know it, you have a bandwagon and everyone is jumping on it.