Part 6 - Key points of critical training periods

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The Science of Training Young Athletes

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University of Florida

The Science of Training Young Athletes

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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/

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Week 2: Strategies for maximizing the athlete’s potential

Many factors can positively and negatively impact the young athlete’s ability to optimize their sports potential. In this section we examine strategies for ensuring the athlete’s systematic long-term sports development and how to mold the correct sport-specific phenotype.

Part 1 - Introduction to critical training periods1:58

Part 2 - Ontogeny7:59

Part 3 - Development and environment6:39

Part 4 - Motor circuitry development5:40

Part 5 - Periods of accelerated growth6:58

Part 6 - Key points of critical training periods3:57

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Dr. Chris Brooks
Instructor
Coaching Science Coordinator for USA Track and Field

Now the ideas presented in this module are quite complex and indeed,

they are also controversial.

Yet they are very, very important.

Understanding the neuro basis of critical or sensitive periods of brain development,

provides insights into strategies for long term athlete development.

Learning is possible throughout life but

there appears to be an advantage to an athletes who has the neural circuits that

were correctly laid down during early movement experiences.

So with respect to this, here's a summary of the key points.

First, during a child's development there appears to be

periods of heightened brain plasticity.

And these are called critical and sensitive periods.

A critical period is the time when environmental input is required for

proper development of the particular brain circuit.

And if the brain is left unstimulated theory states,

that the brain function served by that circuit will be permanently compromised.

A sensitivity period on the other hand, is the time when the environmental

experiences have the greatest impact on brain circuitry.

And these circuits can be shaped by experiences later in life but

to a lesser degree than occurs.

If the experiences are provided within the sensitive period earlier in life.

Point number three,

failure to exploit the Windows of opportunity with the appropriate training

stimuli could prevent the young athlete from reaching their genetic ceiling.

Or at the very least make it more difficult for

them to reach their genetic ceiling.

And point number four, undertaking the correct

training during the Window of opportunity has two possible affects.

It could optimize the athletes genetic potential, and

remember you can't go above genetic potential but it can optimize it.

Or it may allow them to reach their genetic ceiling at a younger age.

And point number five,

the sensitivity periods to be linear in nature, with the more complex motor

abilities reflecting prior experiences during sensitive periods.

And point number six,

aggressive training during the times when the body needs the resources for

growth and maturation could permanently affect the natural biology of the child.

The side affects of performance enhancing drugs though,

suggests that growing the body faster is not always there.

In fact, it can be detrimental and we need to tread with care when trying

to accelerate a young athletes performance during the sensitivity windows until we

know much more about the consequences of doing this and the researchers available.

Now coming up next, we will examine the long term athlete development model.

And this model has been adopted by sport governing bodies throughout the world and

is the guiding framework for sports training and competition.

From infancy, all the way through to adulthood and into the senior years.

And there are four broad philosophical principals.

Underlying the long term athlete development module.

There is enjoyment, the principal of enjoyment.

There is the striving for improvement.

That's all the principal of striving for improvement.

There's the principle of appropriate training and

finally there's the principle of doing no harm.

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