Description
Due to the demands of high performance sport, young athletes are increasingly exposed to high workloads during their athletic careers. At present, most coaches, sports educators and physical trainers who are in charge of monitoring and accompanying children in their physical and sports activities are wondering how to lead them to the highest level while trying to preserve their health capital.These questions concern in particular the relevance of evaluating biological maturation to identify talents, the interest of warming up and stretching to prevent injuries and optimize performance, the role of maturation on the trainability of different physical qualities, the structuring of training during growth, the place of "weight training" in the physical preparation of the child, and the legitimacy of lactic efforts and plyometric work before puberty.The objective of this book is therefore to provide all those who work with children or adolescents with scientific, technical and practical knowledge to enable better monitoring of young athletes in their physical preparation.
