Seventy percent of kids drop out of sports before their high school graduation. Only 15% leave because they feel they are not good enough. Almost 70% leave because they were not having fun, or due to problems with the coach. Injuries cause 30% to give up sports. This course is packed full of practical sports science information that provide youth coaches and parents with the practical pediatric sports science insights to successfully retain young athletes and develop their sport potential while avoiding injury and overtraining. We begin by examining the multidimensional nature of coaching, the relevant sport motor performance abilities, the impact of growth and development on motor skills, the gene versus practice controversy, and briefly overview the body structures strengthened through training. Then we explore the athlete's energy supply, where this energy comes from, and how it matures along with the athlete. Finally, we examine the development of strength, power, anaerobic capacity, coordination and flexibility through the life span. The optional text manual for this course is available at: http://www.learnitez.com/HighPerformanceScience/manuals/
Dr. Tom Livengood
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The Science of Training Young Athletes
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Week 5: Enhancing the fluidity of movement
Coordination and flexibility permit movements that are precise, fluid and spatially controlled. In this section we examine current knowledge about coordination and flexibility as the young child moves through early childhood and into adolescence.
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Dr. Chris BrooksInstructor
Coaching Science Coordinator for USA Track and Field
PAADS is the Professional Association of Athlete Development Specialists,
it was incorporated in 2011.
It's a membership organization across elite governing bodies of sport and
other sports organizations.
The idea for PAADS originated from a meeting in 2002
between the NHL Players Association, the NFL and the NBA.
Those three organizations met together and from that was born Summit,
an Athlete Development Summit that started in 2003.
So those three sport governing bodies started inviting other
governing bodies from sport.
So it turned into a conference, an annual summit that lasted about a day and
a half every year since 2003.
And in 2011, we actually formalized the organization.
The membership sports organizations that are involved
include the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball,
the LPGA, the WTA, the ATP and others.
The intent is for these organizations to get together, and
share what they do with athletes in order to educate them,
to maximize their performance, and to promote the sport in a better way.
What we call membership organization pays due to PAADS and for those membership
organizations, each one of them have a representative on the board of directors.
So the board gets together a few times a year,
and they make decisions about how to grow the sport.
The real idea behind PAADS is to
nail down what the athlete development profession is and how it can work.
Not just at the elite level of sports but from the ground up.
We want to see athletes get to us having education
when they get to the elite levels.
So that they can perform better and excel better and
they want to be able to deal with the stressors of working in the environment.
Not just as an athlete but as a business person and as a human.
One of the chief ideas and goals of PAADS is
to promote the actual field of athlete development.
We have recognized that people are coming in from various different backgrounds and
specialties.
When we first started meeting together in 2003, and
before organizing the actual organization, we realized that there were people coming
in with sports medicine background, people coming in with psychological background.
Social sciences, business, legal, so it was really interesting to see that there
is this broad group of professionals that were working in one field.
And so what we decided to do was to brainstorm and figure out what were
the consistencies across organizations and how they worked with the athletes.
And find out what were some of the differences and
see if those would meld together.
So what we did was we created a education committee.
Went through and I identified what are the consistent topics and
educational pieces that we need as a professional in
the space of athlete development to work with the athletes, to help educate them.
And then we matched those specific concrete ideas
with looking at different universities across the US that have sports management
programs and tried to figure out what were the similarities and differences there.
So in order to grow the sport, we started reaching out to universities and
Florida has become an actual educational partner, we hope to get more.
But the whole point is we want to institutionalize the concept and
the field itself of athlete development.
So people can work with athletes when they're from a grassroots level,
whether it's in high school, university, olympic sport.
So they realize when they work with the athletes what are the pressures on
the athlete.
How can we work with the athlete to make them understand what their role is?
And also how can we empower them to perform at their best level?
It's not necessarily physically, It's more of educating them on,
how the organizations that they represent work,
what their role is in that organization.
And also what's the impact of them behaving in a specific way?
How does that help them, how does that help the sport,
how does that help basically everybody win financially?
Well first to go back to what are the actual content areas themselves?
We talk on a broad range.
We're looking at the players and
the people who work with them to have a general understanding of some key parts.
Most people will specialize in one content area, but we think it's important for
them to have a base understanding of the different content areas that there are.
So what we're saying when we say athlete development as far as content is
an understanding of sports science disciplines.
Understanding of financial awareness and financial education.
Also some psychosocial type of referral system,
so if an athlete needs to work with somebody, that we can connect them with
them to be able to identify what those psychosocial issues are.
There's sports business, sports law, and other factors that are together.
A lot of people who are studying in the field of sports management are really
looking at it from a corporate standpoint.
And what we think is a very good competitive edge working in
the environment, especially at the elite level has to have a good
understanding of how you would work with the athlete.
A lot of people would say, in a very raw way that the athlete's
really the product when you're working in the sports entertainment capacity.
But it's important that you have an educated athlete in the environment,
all of them should be educated, to really realize what's going on.
And what PAADS, the organizations that are involved with PAADS are mostly working on
the elite level, have recognized that we're trying to retrain somebody that's
already been trained to think a specific way in a lot of different issues.
So what we'd like to see is people going into athlete development and
there's not a specific job there but I think it will give them an edge.
For example, if you're working as a high school guidance counselor and
your school has a very good athletic program,
you know that a lot of the athletes do make it up to a higher level,
whether it's college or even some in the elite ranks of the sport.
It would be great to have somebody that really understood these concepts,
to be able to work with the athletes, to educate them earlier, so when they get to
us, we can really work with what we should be working with among the elite level.
So we look at types of positions that you'd really have an advantage to
is working even in any role as a coach or
an agent, anybody whose business associated with the organization.
Specifically, working with the athletes, and also for
example, if you're in the NCAA field, if you're a life skills coordinator,
it should give you an advantage.
And if you're working with a player within the organization in any
realm, even if you're a physical trainer,
if you work directly with the players and their relation, collective bargaining.
You really need to
have a good understanding of what the organization needs.
But also what the athletes, what the education is that the athletes need
to help them work with the organization and improve the sport.
I mean, really the main thing that you're going to hear from most of the elite
sporting organizations is sports, it's entertainment.
It's basically the first reality TV that we ever had.
[LAUGH] And it's probably still the best, a lot of them will say.
So when you have an athlete that's super playing the sport but
not making the best decisions outside, it hurts the athlete but
it also hurts the whole entertainment property of that sport.
So what we want is athletes who be themselves,
we're not trying to create people who they aren't, but for them to understand how to
maximize themselves financially,
maximize their celebrity status, and also maximize the entertainment property.
Because if the sport itself is doing better than everybody gets paid better.
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