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Performance Planning: Long-term Athlete

Development Plans

PERFORMANCE PLANNING: LTAD PLANS

Overview


The Five NCCP

Core Competencies

Valuing Problem- solving Interacting Leading Critical

Thinking


Learning Outcomes

Perform a thorough analysis of the demands of your athletes’ sport at

the elite level

Identify appropriate

measures for promoting athlete development

within your own program

Integrate yearly training priorities into your own

program

Organize and sequence training priorities and

objectives on a weekly basis to optimize adaptations

Outline a program structure

based on training and competition opportunities

Evaluate the ability of your athletes/team to

perform up to their potential in competition


Definition

Performance planning is about knowing how to design programs so that athletes can maximize

their performance


Performance Planning Training

Performance Planning training has three distinct parts:

1. Long-Term Athlete Development Plans and Performance Planning (this part)

2. Sport Profile and Gap Analysis 3. Yearly Training Plan


Overview • Rationale

– Failing to plan is planning to fail. To optimize athletes’ performance, coaches must take their athletes’ developmental stage into account when they do their planning.

• Objective – Apply long-term athlete development (LTAD) plans to

the planning process. • Process

– Mini-lectures, small-group tasks, and individual tasks.


Where Are We Going?

• Why Plan? • Building the Athlete • Understanding LTAD • Competition Structure • Planning Benchmarks/Program Orientation


Why Plan?


Key Reasons for Planning • Provides direction for and helps organize the athlete’s

program • Encourages strong accountability, focus, and discipline

for athletes, coaches, and staff associated with the program

• Encourages ongoing meaningful analysis and monitoring of athletes

• Helps identify challenging “stretch” targets and meaningful goal-setting

• Creates a culture where athletes continually strive and move toward being their best


Key Reasons for Planning (cont’d)

• Maximizes the effectiveness of the training program and is based on scientific principles

• Ensures more purposeful practice and training based on progression and the integration of training objectives

• Provides a communication tool for athletes, coaches, support staff, and parents

• Improves resource allocation, as implementation is directed toward objectives

• Helps coaches manage their time better


Planning Process

Strategically Prioritize

Objectives

Monitor and Assess

Develop/ Modify Plan

Do a Gap Analysis

[Gold Medal Profile (GMP)]

Start with LTAD

Principles


Building the Athlete


Building the Athlete

Health and Fitness

Sport-specific Ability

Competitive Readiness


Understanding LTAD


Understanding LTAD


Definition

LTAD is a training, competition, and recovery program based on developmental age — the

individual’s maturation level rather than his or her chronological age.


Key Points about LTAD • LTAD is based on the physical, mental, emotional, and cognitive

development of children and adolescents. • LTAD helps participants develop physical literacy, which excellence and

lifelong participation are built on. • LTAD ensures that developmentally appropriate skill development, training,

competition, and recovery occur throughout an athlete’s career. • LTAD provides developmentally appropriate and meaningful competition

schedules • LTAD is a pathway that integrates and aligns the Canadian sport system. • LTAD promotes a healthy, physically literate nation. • LTAD is an inclusive framework that encourages lifelong participation.


LTAD Stages


Phases of Growth

Adapted from “http://canadiansportforlife.ca/resources/role-monitoring-growth-ltad”


Female/Male Differences in Rates of Growth

Adapted from “http://canadiansportforlife.ca/resources/cs4l-ltad-2”


Sensitive Periods

A sensitive period is a period during which adaptation to training is accelerated


Sensitive Periods

Balyi, I. & Williams, C. (2009). Coaching the young developing performer. Leeds: Coachwise.


Resources

SPORT FOR LIFE http://canadiansportforlife.ca/resources PHV CALCULATOR http://kinesiology.usask.ca/growthutility/phv_ui.php

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Competition Structure


Importance of Competition Structure

“The system of competition may make or break an athlete.”

I. Balyi


Importance of Competition Structure


Recommended Competition Ratios Stages Recommended Ratios

Active Start No specific ratio; all activity based upon developing physical literacy

FUNdamentals All activities fun based, including some structured competition

Learn to Train Training 70%; competition-specific training and actual competition 30%

Train to Train Training 60%; competition-specific training and actual competition 40%

Train to Compete

Training 40%; competition-specific training and actual competition 60%

Train to Win Training 25%; competition-specific training and actual competition 75%

Active for Life Based on individual desire


Planning Benchmarks/Program

Orientation


Benchmarks: What, Why, and How? • What?

– Targets/goals or standards that can be used to measure athletes’ milestones or program success

– Two kinds of benchmarks: Programming and performance benchmarks

• Why? – To make comparisons over time – To show progress or lack of progress toward goals

• How? – By setting (appropriate) goals – By using them in LTAD plans to set the direction of planning


Debrief

• What feelings/responses do you have to the activities you just completed?

• What are your key learnings from this part of the module?

• How will these learnings affect your planning?

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