Full Description
Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes: Science and Application offers an evidence-based introduction to the theory and practice of strength and conditioning for young athletes. This new revised and updated, third edition builds on the success of the first two editions and draws on leading research to offer a holistic approach to training centred on the concept of long-term athletic development and the welfare of the young athlete.
Written by a team of leading international strength and conditioning experts and paediatric sport scientists, the book includes expanded practical guidelines in every chapter to show how the latest scientific research can be applied by coaches to optimise young athletic potential. Including sample training programmes and exercises throughout, the third edition of Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes explores a wide range of topic areas linked to long-term athletic development such as growth and maturation, talent identification and development, methods of developing different components of fitness, and programme design. This edition also introduces new topics including: monitoring and managing training load, the impact of growth and maturation on psychosocial development, creating appropriate training environments and applied chapters devoted to integrating strength and conditioning into schools, early specialization sports, and sporting academies.
This is an essential resource for all students of strength and conditioning or paediatric exercise science, as well as any coach, athletic trainer or physician working with children and young people and their parents.
Contents
1: The Impact of Growth and Maturation on Physical Performance 2: The Impact of Growth and Maturation Upon Psychosocial Development in Young Athletes 3: Talent Identification and Development4: Monitoring and Managing Load in Young Athletes 5: Coaching Young Athletes 6: Developing Athletic Motor Skill Competencies in Young Athletes7: Strength and Power Training for Young Athletes 8: Weightlifting for Young Athletes 9: Plyometric Training for Young Athletes 10: Speed Development in Young Athletes 11: Agility Training for Young Athletes 12: Aerobic And Anaerobic Fitness Training for Youth Athletes 13: Mobility And Flexibility Development for Young Athletes 14: Balance Training for Young Athletes 15: Periodisation Strategies for Young Athletes 16: Reducing Injury Risk in Young Athletes 17: Nutritional Strategies for Young Athletes18: Creating Appropriate Training Environments for Young Athletes19: Integrating Strength and Conditioning into Schools 20: Integrating Strength and Conditioning for Specialised Young Athletes21: Integrating Strength and Conditioning into Sporting Academies
