LTAD Downloads
Canadian Sport for Life (CS4L)
Canadian Sport for Life Resource Paper
This document outlines the 10 key factors influencing LTAD and the stages of LTAD as they apply to athletes and sport in Canada. Serving as an introduction to LTAD, CS4L discusses the impact of LTAD on parents, coaches, clubs, sport science and the education system. CS4L is the first Canadian LTAD document published.
Appendix 1
Physical, mental and cognitive, and emotional development characteristics.
Appendix 2
Sport-specific charts.
Figures and Tables
Contains the figures and documents within the CS4L document.
The CS4L Rectangle
The CS4L rectangle continues to evolve (version 2010).
Athletes with a Disability
No Accidental Champions
This supplementary document outlines how the LTAD model applies to athletes with a disability (AWAD) and discusses additional factors to be considered when working with AWADs, including additional stages and the 10 key factors that influence LTAD for AWADs.
Figures and Tables
Contains the figures and tables within the NAC document.
JUST RELEASED! Training Athletes with a Physical Disability
A summary of current scientific research about training of athletes with a disability. It is organized by major disability type and the LTAD stages of development.
Supplementary LTAD Documents
The Role of Monitoring Growth in Long-Term Athlete Development
This document is intended to help coaches develop and deliver training, competition and recovery programs that are specific to the developmental level of the individual(s) they are coaching.
Canadian Sport for Life Poster
This fold out brochure describes the stages of LTAD along with inspiring quotes from exceptional Canadian athletes depicting how their journey in sport has followed the stages of LTAD.
Canadian Sport for Life Summary
This supplementary document describes the stages of LTAD.
Recovery and Regeneration for Long-Term Athlete Development
Recovery and regeneration techniques for athletes.
Information for Parents
A one-pager with advice and information for parents.
A Sport Parent's Guide
A supplementary document that introduces the stages of the CS4L model and provides guidance for parent's of active children
Competition is a Good Servant, but a Poor Master
This document addresses the issues associated with the current structure of competition.
No Accidental Champions Poster
This fold out brochure describes the stages of LTAD along with inspiring quotes from exceptional Canadian athletes depicting how their journey in sport has followed the stages of LTAD.
Developing Physical Literacy
A guide for parents of children ages 1 to 12 explaining Physical Literacy, the key concept behind the CS4L model for both competitive excellence and long-term wellness in activity and sport.
The Female Athlete Perspective
Guidelines for athlete development (training, competition and recovery) with special reference to growth, maturation and development for females involved in late-specialization sports.
Maximizing the Sport Experience for our Children
This document looks at the questions parents should be asking coaches, clubs and themselves at each LTAD stage to ensure their child is not only being taught age appropriate technical skills, but also learning and gaining positive values in the process.
Physical Literacy Concept Paper
An in depth research paper on physical literacy written by J. Mandigo, Ph.D, N. Francis, Ed.D. & K. Lodewyk, Ph.D.
Linking Sport for Life with Management by Values
This article explores how a relatively new management practice called Management by Values can help organizations intentionally leverage their organizational values. By connecting the True Sport principles to the LTAD stages, readers will come away with practical information and practices they can immediately apply in their sport organizations.
CS4L Values and Principles
The CS4L guide outlines 10 factors that impact the 7 stages of LTAD. Now, as the project has matured into a movement, a set of values and principles has been developed with the contribution of many.
CS4L Terminology
Your guide to the language of CS4L.
Other
References and ISBN Numbers
References and ISBN Numbers for all CS4L Documents
Need help downloading a PDF?
To download a .pdf file from a link:
1. Right-click the link to the .pdf file.
2. Click Save Link As (or "Save Target As").
3. Browse to the folder where you want to save the document.
4. Click Save.
To download an open .pdf file:
1. Click the File menu in the Acrobat viewer window.
2. Click Save As.
3. Browse to the folder where you want to save the document.
4. Click Save. To download the Adobe Reader:
The Adobe Reader can be downloaded at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
Back to the top