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Developmental activities of elite junior hockey players: an analysis of early sport specialization

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023
Early sport specialization is a popular and contentious topic in the scientific literature and popular media. The lure of extrinsic rewards has led to increasing rates of specialization among young athletes, while expert recommendations promote ...
W. J. Garland, K. L. Smith, J. C. Dixon, S. Horton   +3 more
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Long-Term Athletic Development- Part 1 [PDF]

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2015
The concept of developing talent and athleticism in youth is the goal of many coaches and sports systems. Consequently, an increasing number of sporting organizations have adopted long-term athletic development models in an attempt to provide a structured approach to the training of youth.
Lloyd, Rhodri S, Oliver, Jon L, Faigenbaum, Avery D, Howard, Rick, De Ste Croix, Mark B, Williams, Craig A, Best, Thomas M, Alvar, Brent A, Micheli, Lyle J, Thomas, D. Phillip, Hatfield, Disa L, Cronin, John B, Myer, Gregory D   +12 more
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Normative data and percentile curves for long-term athlete development in swimming [PDF]

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2022
Objectives: To provide normative data and establish percentile curves for long-course (50 m pool length) swimming events and to compare progression of race times longitudinally for the various swimming strokes and race distances. Design: Descriptive approach with longitudinal tracking of performance data. Methods: A total of 2,884,783 race results were
Dennis-Peter Born, Ishbel Lomax, Eva Rüeger, Michael Romann   +3 more
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Investigating the Youth Sports Development Pathway Within a South African Context

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The past two decades witnessed increased participation in professional as well as amateur sport, giving impetus to concomitant amplified interest in long-term athlete development (LTAD). LTAD has been described as the structured and progressive growth of
Liandi van den Berg, Petronella Jonck, Jhalukpreya Surujlal   +2 more
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Long-Term Athletic Development, Part 2 [PDF]

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2015
The first installment of this two-part commentary reviewed existing models of long-term athletic development. However, irrespective of the model that is adopted by practitioners, existing structures within competitive youth sports in addition to the prevalence of physical inactivity in a growing number of modern-day youth may serve as potential ...
Lloyd, Rhodri S, Oliver, Jon L, Faigenbaum, Avery D, Howard, Rick, De Ste Croix, Mark B, Williams, Craig A, Best, Thomas M, Alvar, Brent A, Micheli, Lyle J, Thomas, D. Phillip, Hatfield, Disa L, Cronin, John B, Myer, Gregory D   +12 more
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Sports training in volleyball youth sport centers in the Czech republic

Tělesná Kultura, 2012
BACKGROUND: Together with the increase of importance of sport as a social phenomenon importance of optimizing the system of sports training of talented athletes is growing.
Michal Lehnert, František Chmelík, Rudolf Psotta, Stanislav Horák   +3 more
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Problematizing the Adoption and Implementation of Athlete Development ‘Models’: A Foucauldian-Inspired Analysis of the Long-Term Athlete Development Framework

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to problematize the continued adoption and implementation of Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) framework (Balyi et al., 2005; 2014) as an increasingly orthodox conception of the athlete development process and for ...
Dowling, Mathew, Mills, Joseph, Stodter, Anna   +2 more
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Talent Management Processes as Predictors of Long-Term Athlete Development in Sports Organizations in Burundi [PDF]

Annals of Applied Sport Science, 2023
Background. Managing talent involves all the key elements of human resource management. It is evident to overemphasize the role played by sports administrators, coaches, and trainers in an effective long-term development program of athletes in sports ...
François Hatungimana, Isiaka Oladele Oladipo   +1 more
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The Coaches’ Perceptions and Experience Implementing a Long-Term Athletic Development Model in Competitive Swimming [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The aim of this study was to analyze the association between coaches’ experience and their perceptions on the implementation of a long-term athletic development (LTAD) model created in 2016 by the Portuguese Swimming Federation. Eighty-six swimming coaches were assembled in groups according to their experience level: “novice” (n = 24), “intermediate ...
Mário J. Costa, Mário J. Costa, Daniel A. Marinho, Daniel A. Marinho, Catarina C. Santos, Catarina C. Santos, Catarina C. Santos, Luís Quinta-Nova, Luís Quinta-Nova, Aldo M. Costa, Aldo M. Costa, António J. Silva, António J. Silva, Tiago M. Barbosa, Tiago M. Barbosa   +14 more
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Long-term athlete development: From theoretical and practical model to cognitive problem [PDF]

Fizička Kultura, 2019
Two decades after designing and implementing the course of Children's sport as a university subject at the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education, University of Belgrade, and its full academic and practical affirmation, the question of revising and ...
Ropret Robert, Jevtić Branislav
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