Coaches' adoption and implementation of the South African long-term athlete development model in cricket. [PDF]
Background: Although Cricket South Africa has implemented the Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model, there is limited information available about the adoption and implementation of its principles among cricket coaches. Objectives: This study aimed to gain a better understanding of how South African cricket coaches adopt and implement the LTAD ...
Mokwena KL, Kubayi A.
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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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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.
Light, R +5 more
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Effective talent development: The elite coach perspective in UK sport [PDF]
Research to effectively inform the design and conduct of talent development environments (TDEs) is sparse, especially relating to the goals and systems involved.
Martindale, RJJ +5 more
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The Coaches’ Perceptions and Experience Implementing a Long-Term Athletic Development Model in Competitive Swimming [PDF]
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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Training Management of the Elite Adolescent Soccer Player throughout Maturation
Professional soccer clubs invest significantly into the development of their academy prospects with the hopes of producing elite players. Talented youngsters in elite development systems are exposed to high amounts of sports-specific practise with the ...
Alistair J. McBurnie +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 ...
O'Hara, J +9 more
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Long-term athlete development: From theoretical and practical model to cognitive problem [PDF]
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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Competition age: does it matter for swimmers?
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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Eccentric Resistance Training in Youth: Perspectives for Long-Term Athletic Development [PDF]
The purpose of this narrative review is to discuss the role of eccentric resistance training in youth and how this training modality can be utilized within long-term physical development. Current literature on responses to eccentric exercise in youth has demonstrated that potential concerns, such as fatigue and muscle damage, compared to adults are not
Benjamin Drury +5 more
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