Coaching Young Athletes

Rok: 2004
ISBN: 9781905096022
OKCZID: 110571399

Anotace

When you open your copy of The Peak Performance Guide to Coaching Young Athletes, you'll see our specialist workbook has one focus: how to bring out the best in children and young adults and help them to achieve their athletic potential. There is a major reason for publishing this work at this time. Most trainers, schools and clubs need to re-think their strategy -- or their young athletes will never reach their full potential. I realise this is a serious assertion to make. But read this message in full and you' ll see why I' m so concerned. Together I feel we can bring about a vital change. The purpose of this new book is to help coaches become aware of the kinds of training that are right for young athletes and the kinds of training that aren't. Readers will learn where so many trainers go wrong. We begin with some words of wisdom from coach Raphael Brandon: "Remember, do not treat young athletes as adults in miniature." We cannot afford to ignore this advice. The training theory and coaching methods used for most young athletes are based on the physiology of adults. This is because adult training has been extensively studied. That' s where the knowledge lies and it often fails to take younger age-groups into consideration. This invariably creates a problem because, in fact, the exercise physiology of children is different from that of adults. Children are not mini-adults. Rather, they have a developing physiology, from early childhood to late adolescence. This means they have different capabilities for, and adaptations, to, exercise. For this reason, young athlete training programmes should not be just scaled-down versions of adult training. The failure to establish correct training patterns for young athletes, unfortunately, goes way back.

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