People participate in many different types of physical activity, both daily and across their life
span, but research on human movement is often siloed by type (sport, exercise, active …

Study purpose. The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of LTAD-based
programming on the physical abilities and fundamental skills of basketball players aged 11 …

Background The professional education of coaches, coach developers and academics is a
pressing challenge for national governing bodies and educational institutions. Central to this …

ABSTRACT Athlete Development Pathways (ADP) are used worldwide as guides to optimal
athlete development. Existing ADPs tend to centre physical development and competition …

The aim of the research was to understand how prominent sociocultural discourses
influenced how coaches construct athletes' transition out of sport and position themselves …

This paper presents our efforts and subsequent reflections in attempting to make
Foucauldian theory accessible and relevant to a group of high-performance endurance …

In this paper, we examine the learning of nine high-performance endurance running
coaches over a seven-week poststructuralist-informed coach development workshop …

Participation in sport can positively impact young lives by promoting social development and
also physical and mental health and well-being. However, several challenges related to …

While ideas from long-term athlete development (LTAD) models have been adopted and
integrated across different sports, issues related to early specialization, such as increased …

Abstract Background and Study Aim. Physical abilities and fundamental skills are essential
characteristics of football players requiring in-depth analysis, but the results of previous short …