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Competition age: does it matter for swimmers?
BMC Research Notes, 2022 Objective To establish reference data on required competition age regarding performance levels for both sexes, all swimming strokes, and race distances and to determine the effect of competition age on swimming performance in the context of other common ...
Dennis-Peter Born +3 more
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Description of Paralympic Athletic Talent Development Environment
مجله پژوهش در علوم توانبخشی, 2019 Introduction: The contemporary studies seek to describe the appropriate environments for athletic talent development by changing procedure instead of talent identification, which is a tedious process that sometimes does not yield the desirable result ...
Sahar Mahmodi +3 more
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023 The pathway towards senior professional status in sport is affected by a multitude of factors. An abductive examination of the talent identification and development processes at an English Premiership rugby union (RU) club was undertaken for the present ...
Francesco Dimundo +9 more
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Optimising long-term athletic development: An investigation of practitioners’ knowledge, adherence, practices and challenges [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2022 Long-term athletic development practices have been recommended for the past two decades. However, limited research exists exploring the knowledge and skills required by practitioners to optimise long-term athletic development. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, adherence, practices, and challenges of practitioners responsible for ...
Kevin Till +5 more
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Evaluation of fms, dynamic balance and jump performance in faculty of sports sciences students
ROL Spor Bilimleri Dergisi, 2023 The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a difference between the Functional Movement Screening (FMS), dynamic balance and drop jump values of male and female athletes and non-athletes.
Gamze Erikoglu Orer +5 more
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The Social Construction of the Long-Term Athlete Development Framework [PDF]
Journal of Global Sport Management, 2019 This article examines the social construction of the Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) framework (Balyi et al., 2005; 2014) and the Canadian Sport for Life Leadership Team (now Sport for Life), the group responsible for the creation, development and promotion of LTAD.
Dowling, Mathew, Washington, Marvin
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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 +14 more
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Annual Performance Progression in Swimming Across Competition Levels and Race Distances
Journal of Functional Morphology and KinesiologyObjective: As performance progression provides an essential indicator for talent selection and development, this study aimed to compare annual swimming performance progression between different competitive levels and to establish benchmarks for long-term
Jesús J. Ruiz-Navarro +1 more
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Volleyball players long term development through game system learning [PDF]
Fizička Kultura, 2020 The subject of this paper are training methodologies important for improving tactics in youth categories of volleyball players. In practice, coaches very quickly switch from learning the 6: 0 system (initial system), to the 5: 1 system (competitive ...
Nešić Goran +4 more
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National Strength and Conditioning Association Position Statement on Long-Term Athletic Development [PDF]
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2016 There has recently been a growing interest in long-term athletic development for youth. Because of their unique physical, psychological, and social differences, children and adolescents should engage in appropriately prescribed exercise programs that promote physical development to prevent injury and enhance fitness behaviors that can be retained later
Lloyd, Rhodri S. +8 more
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