Context: Most available data on athletic development training models focus on adult or
professional athletes, where increasing workload capacity and performance is a primary …

Athletes are exposed to various psychological and physiological stressors, such as losing
matches and high training loads. Understanding and improving the resilience of athletes is …

Traditional talent development pathways for adolescents in team sports follow talent
identification procedures based on subjective games ratings and isolated athletic …

Background: Athletes maintain a balance between stress and recovery and adopt recovery
modalities that manage fatigue and enhance recovery and performance. Optimal TST is …

Background The expectation that training enhances performance is well explored in
professional sport. However, the additional challenges of physical and cognitive maturation …

Background The loads to which professional rugby players are subjected has been
identified as a concern by coaches, players and administrators. In November 2014, World …

Background: The impact on athletes based on grou** methods according to the date of
birth within the constituent year, known as the relative effect of age (RAE), is a factor that can …

The purpose of this study was to test the relationships between training workload (WL)
parameters with variations in anaerobic power and change of direction (COD) in under-16 …

Assessing the holistic impact of student-athletes within sport schools is important due to the
increasing popularity of sport school programmes, the likelihood that most youth athletes do …

Rugby union (RU) is a skill-collision team sport played at junior and senior levels worldwide.
Within England, age-grade rugby governs the participation and talent development of youth …