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This course is jam-packed with practical sports science information that will provide youth coaches and parents with the paediatric sports science insights they need to successfully retain young athletes and develop their sport potential while avoiding injury and overtraining. We begin by looking at the multifaceted nature of coaching, relevant sport motor performance abilities, the impact of growth and development on motor skills, the gene versus practise debate, and a brief overview of the body structures strengthened through training. Then we look at the athlete's energy supply, where it comes from, and how it develops alongside the athlete.
Syllabus :
1. Introduction to the young athlete
- Introduction to high performance coaching
- How many kids play sports?
- Why do kids play sports?
- How we gain knowledge
- The performance components
- The competitive performance
- Key points of high performance coaching
- Introduction to motor performance abilities
- Designing physical work capacity
- Five components of motor performance
- Sport-specific motor abilities
- Key points of motor performance abilities
- Introduction to growth and maturation
- Growth vs. maturation
- Gender and puberty
- Neurological Development
- Thermoregulation and Cardiovascular
- Ventilation
- Key points of growth and maturation
- Additional Insights: Educational Opportunities of Sport Organizations (Terry Crawford)
2. Strategies for maximizing the athlete’s potential
- Introduction to critical training periods
- Ontogeny
- Development and environment
- Motor circuitry development
- Periods of accelerated growth
- Key points of critical training periods
- Introduction to long term athlete development
- Four implicit principles
- Physical literacy
- Training approaches
- Key points of long term athlete development
- Dr. Mike Sagas Introduction
- Sampling
- Benefits of early sampling
- What is deliberate play?
- Introduction to factors affecting potential
- Genotype vs. phenotype
- Genetic ceiling effect
- Why the body's systems adapt
- Key points of factors affecting potential
3. How the body works
- Introduction to important body structures
- Skeletal and muscular system
- Nervous system
- Respiratory system
- Cardiovascular system
- Key points of important body structures
- Introduction to energy supply
- ATP structure and recharging
- Creatine phosphate (CP) mechanism
- Fast glycolysis
- Aerobic energy system
- How mitochondria work
- Key points of energy supply
- Introduction to energy system fuels and diet
- Nutrient processing
- Role of vitamins and minerals
- Nutritional concerns
- Key points of energy system fuels and diet
4. Enhancing the athlete’s physical work capacity
- Introduction to aerobic capacity
- The VO2max test
- Comparing the VO2max of athletes
- Aerobic capacity of young athletes
- Relative VO2max of trained vs untrained children
- The child's economy
- Key points of aerobic capacity
- Introduction to strength
- Gender strength differences
- Trainability of strength
- Strength adaptation and training safety
- Key points of strength
- Introduction to the physiology of strength and power
- Muscle components affecting strength and power
- Intrinsic sensors
- Stretch-shortening cycle
- Strength and muscle fiber type
- Key points of the physiology of strength
- Introduction to anaerobic capacity
- Effect of gender and age
- Explaining development of anaerobic performance
- Sport performance insights
- Key points of anaerobic capacity
5. Enhancing the fluidity of movement
- Introduction to coordination
- Brain motor control areas
- Coordinating variables
- Optimal sequential timing
- Soccer example of coordination & control
- Learning control
- Key points of coordination
- Introduction to flexibility
- Range of motion strategies
- Children and flexibility
- Varieties of stretching
- Effect of stretching on a muscle
- Position statement
- Key points of flexibility
- Acquiring expertise (Dr. Mark Williams)
- Talent identification and development (Dr. Mark Williams)
- Perceptual and Cognitive Expertise (Dr. Mark Williams)
- Dean Reid Introduction
- Dr. Mike Sagas: Sports Management Overview
- Sports Management Faculty Introductions
