A Coaching Session Framework to Facilitate Long-Term Athletic Development [PDF]
ABSTRACT The implementation of long-term athletic development (LTAD) aims to improve health, physical activity, and performance of all youth. Contemporary LTAD models suggest that a broad range of physical and psychosocial competencies should be developed in youth, but few resources are available for coaches that describe “how” to achieve ...
Till, Kevin +8 more
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Long-Term Athletic Development- Part 1 [PDF]
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 +12 more
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Investigating the Youth Sports Development Pathway Within a South African Context
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 +2 more
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Long-Term Athletic Development, Part 2 [PDF]
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 +12 more
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Normative data and percentile curves for long-term athlete development in swimming [PDF]
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 +3 more
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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 +2 more
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Interpreting and Implementing the Long Term Athlete Development Model: English Swimming Coaches’ Views on the (Swimming) LTAD in Practice [PDF]
The LTAD (Long Term Athlete Development) model has come to represent a sports-wide set of principles that significantly influences national sports policy in England.
Lang, M, Light, R
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Trainability of junior Rugby Union players [PDF]
Growing interest in producing expert performance, and increasing sport participation, has led to a number of models being proposed for optimal sporting development.
Hendricks, MS
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Sports training in volleyball youth sport centers in the Czech republic
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 +3 more
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Variable and changing trajectories in youth athlete development: further verification in advocating a long-term inclusive tracking approach. [PDF]
Athlete development through adolescence can vary greatly because of maturational processes. For example, variation can be observed in anthropometric and fitness measures with later maturing individuals "catching up" their earlier maturing peers at later ...
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