In our society, we value sports and athletes very highly. We spend countless dollars on tickets and merchandise to be “fascinated” at the skill of the athlete. We praise them like it’s a miracle, when in actuality it is a result of hard work. I think we overlook the hard work and the different stages of youth training the athletes went through throughout their lives and just look at the end result. This hard work and growth can be explained by two different but very similar types of youth development models, the LTAD model, and Gallahue and Ozmun’s model. The long-term athlete development model, otherwise known as the LTAD model is a scientific research that concludes it takes eight-to-twelve years of training for a talented player/athlete …show more content…
It is essential that in the LTAD we set long and short-term goals according to their chronological age. To determine what the goals we should set we split the model into 6 stages depending on their age and gender. The first two stages, the fundamental stage and the learning to train stage, are important in motor learning but they are more for children under the age of 12. These kids are usually in elementary school still branching out and looking for their specific sport. In these two stages, it is crucial that we understand that it is more about structuring and movements of the skills rather than perfecting the skill. We have to build the overall motor abilities, and focus on building the athleticism and the fundamental sports skills of the athlete in these stages. The next two stages are the training to train and training to compete stages. With the training to train, athletes are about 12 – 16 years old for males and 11-15 for females, so mainly kids in middle school heading into high school. This is trying to set up more of a base for the athlete to understand the sport specific tactics and skills. We also place a special interest …show more content…
Both of these models have unique motor stages that athletes go through to obtain skills. However, they are different in the fact that the LTAD has six stages and Gallahue and Ozmun’s model has only 4 phases. Not only that but the LTAD has more specific chronological age limitations than Gallahues’ model. It also has less of an environmental influence than Gallahues model. Also with Gallahues model the start of motor development is from utero while the LTAD starts when the child can walk. In both models however, it evident that both speak about how the athlete uses their current ability to achieve a different skill. For example, a child learns to walk before he can run. The last real difference I saw was that in the Gallahues model it speaks about eventually losing the skill after we go through these stages, but the LTAD just speaks about retiring into a job in that specific sport. Although both have different methods, they ultimately lead to motor ability skills improving with
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Youth sports are a staple in nearly every American’s childhood as highlighted in “Children Need to Play, Not Compete” by Jessica Statsky. Statsky makes two contentions in favor of this argument: first, that the participants of youth sports are not physically and psychologically ready, and second, that the mentality of win or lose is more harmful than helpful during the formative years of a child’s development. I agree with Statsky that children’s sports are too often over competitive, but some competition is beneficial to their development.
Describe how these theories differ in regard to the ever-reversing role of general intellectual ability factor (g).
Athletes in times of difficulty can be important role models.” This shows that sports are in fact helpful because they can grow children into being important role models for the rest of society. Studies have shown time and time again that playing sports can be beneficial to children and we also believe this to be true. Many people still think that sports cause “too many injuries”, or coaches “are not fair enough”, but adolescents will experience these things all throughout their lives because injury can happen anywhere and they will not always be the best at what they are doing. Sports are beneficial to the youth because they can teach children and teens important life skills, help them maintain a fit and healthy lifestyle, all while improving their mental health.
The final part of this essay will be to examine the similarities and differences between the two models.
You have to consider Nutrition, exercise, practice and their mental state. If you learn to balance this a player will be able to reach a goal. If it’s kicking a soccer ball into a goal, or scoring a touchdown. It comes down to how did you perform? Of course with performance there has to be strength and with strength comes conditioning.
“Sports specialization refers to the exclusive participation in a single sport, most commonly on a year-round basis” (Kauffman). For many athletes, this means that training schedules no longer have an off-season (Kauffman). Early sport specialization is characterized by participation in a specific, intense training program for a single sport at an early age at a competitive level (“Journal of Physical Education,” n.d.). Ages that are considered for early sport specialization include 3-12 years old. “Approximately 45 million children participate in organized sports, and many participate at earlier ages with sport specialization” (Callender, n.d.). With this participation gradually increasing in the U.S. adolescents, sport specialization including
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Specifically, the athlete is required to make this prediction looking one, three, five, and ten years ahead, and for the remainder of his or her life (Stambulova, 2010). This step provides the client with a visual reminder of how he or she wants to organize future events and priorities (Stambulova, 2010). Moreover, it allows the counselor to understand when the athlete may want to retire and what the athlete plans to do post- retirement (Stambulova, 2010). The fifth step is comprised of three sub-steps that assist the athlete to combine aspects of his or her past, present, and future (Stambulova,
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Children who participate in sports are developing rapidly in sports skills, sportsmanship, and psychologically, but does this come from organized sports are just nature’s process. Children develop emotional and social benefits from participating in sports. Children experience character and leadership development through peer relations leading to an increase in self-esteem and a decrease in anxiety levels. Children will get opportunities to experience positive and negative emotions throughout their practice and games trials. It is important for the coach to understand the “psychology of youth sports and physical activity participation” (Weinberg & Gould, 2011 p.516).
Athletes need to have the training that is needed to be at the same skill level as the competitors on the other Olympic teams. Many young athletes dream
Most of my life I have been involved in a sport. During my youth, I could not decide on a single sport to dedicate my time to, so I played several. Every sport I practiced brought different workouts and required that I learn new abilities. As I came to see I was not talented at the new abilities needed to succeed in the new sport, but every time I tried something new I would have months of training and coaching before the first game. After the first game, I would realize that my hard work in the trainings allowed me to acquire new abilities and had made me seem as a talented player. Author Joseph Chris states this in his article “Natural talent vs Hard Work” “…hard-working individuals can develop a certain talent or skill, which can imply that natural gift is just the result of long and hard work.” Not only did I experience firsthand how hard work overcomes talent as Joseph