Athlete Development Pathway
Athlete Development Pathway
Our Athlete Development Pathway has been designed by Jamie Geraghty based off principles of Long-Term Athlete Development from Dr.Istvan Balyi and Sport Ireland’s Building Pathways in Irish Sport.
This concept was introduced by Balyi and it was concluded that specific and well planned practice would ensure optimum development throughout an athlete’s career.
Having an Athlete Development Pathway helps us as coaches better understand where our Athletes are in their stage of development and helps us to work with them better according to their needs.
The aim is to create an Athlete Development Pathway that helps us as coaches to create logical progressions in an athletes development, with specific levels and programmes for our athletes along each stage of the pathway.
Our Athlete Development Pathway is as follows:
Our Coaching Pathway then follows this model as we provide education to coaches around each specific stage and what is needed for the athlete at this stage of their development.
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FUNdamentals Programme
This is the introduction phase. On this course and at this stage of an Athletes development it is about the beginning of fundamental movement skills. This will involve working on a broad range of gross motor skills that will better equip athletes for a wide variety of sports before moving into sport specific skills. Small introduction to Calisthenics specific movements.
Learning to Train
This is the introduction to Sport Specific Skills. Our groups will begin to work on Calisthenics specific movements using all equipment such as Pull-Up Bars, Parallel Bars and floor.
Training to Train
This is the introduction to flow and routines. At this stage of the athlete’s journey they will start to put movements together and create routines. They will still work on the development of individual movements also.
Training to Compete
This is the stage when they begin to design routines. They should at this stage, while still under the guidance of the coach, begin to be able to develop their own routines based off their preference of movements.
Training to Win
At this stage Athletes will be solely preparing for competitions. They will have developed their overall athletic ability and their training will focus on preparation for competitions throughout the year.
Active for Life / Retention
This is the stage that makes sure athletes remain active long into adulthood. At this stage the focus is on keeping athletes involved in the sport. Using their experience to remain involved and become coaches/officials/event management etc.
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