Guest(s)
Greg Chertok, AASP, MEd
Topic
Sports Safety for Children
Topic Info
The Pressure on children to compete in sports can be exciting, humiliating, scary and very hard for children of a certain age to deal with. Greg Chertok, AASP, MEd, Director, Sport & Exercise Psychology at The Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Center, comes on the show to discuss this and other safety concerns for parents with children in sports.
Guest Info
Greg Chertok, AASP-CC, is the Director of Sport Psychology at The Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Center (PMR), a comprehensive outpatient spine, sports, and occupational rehabilitation facility in Englewood, NJ. His professional interests are in developing high-level mental and physical conditioning services for athletes. At PMR, Greg
has constructed the EXACT (Expert Athletic Counseling & Training) and Just For KIX (Kids In 'Xercise) Programs, through which student-athletes and high-level teams work with professionals in Fitness Training,
Nutrition, and Sport & Exercise Psychology to enhance overall athletic and personal performance. He has given seminars and workshops to coaches, parents, youth players, and professional athletes, and has written numerous articles on sport psychology topics, most recently
co-authoring a book geared toward youth baseball coaches entitled The Baseball Starter: A Handbook For Coaching Children and Teens.
He received his B.A. in Psychology at Tufts University and his M.Ed. in Counseling specializing in Sport & Exercise Psychology at Boston University in 2007. While at Tufts, he captained the 2006 baseball team and finished his career as an ESPN The Magazine Academic Regional All-American and a New England College All-Star. He currently co-owns and operates a youth summer baseball academy called Pitch by Pitch Baseball, Inc., in Congers, NY, one of the area's larger specialty day camps that features both physical and mental skills training for 7-13 year old ballplayers. He is a Certified Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology as well as a Personal Fitness Trainer.
He received his B.A. in Psychology at Tufts University and his M.Ed. in Counseling specializing in Sport & Exercise Psychology at Boston University in 2007. While at Tufts, he captained the 2006 baseball team and finished his career as an ESPN The Magazine Academic Regional All-American and a New England College All-Star. He currently co-owns and operates a youth summer baseball academy called Pitch by Pitch Baseball, Inc., in Congers, NY, one of the area's larger specialty day camps that features both physical and mental skills training for 7-13 year old ballplayers. He is a Certified Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology as well as a Personal Fitness Trainer.
Website
Website
Host
Melanie Cole, M.S.
Original Air Date
10 / 5 / 2010
