Resources: ltad case studies

If you can’t count, you can’t add. If you can’t throw, you can’t play a number of sports...

Physical Literacy is a key concept behind the CS4L model for both competitive excellence and long-term wellness in activity and sport.

Some of Canada’s greatest athletes are prime examples of physical literacy in action. Here are a few famous Canadian athletes who didn’t specialize too early in one sport or activity, but leveraged their fundamental skills from one pursuit to another...

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One of the key elements in applying LTAD principles to physical activities and sports programs is the recognition that an athlete’s or dancer’s chronological or ‘calendar’ age does not necessarily reflect their actual developmental age – physical or mental. We all know kids ‘mature’ at different rates with their bodies, and their developmental age will determine how they should train and practice their activity or sport. This is why CS4L recommends that sport clubs, dance schools and any organization that deals with active children regularly measure and monitor the physical maturation and growth of their young participants. The most important stage of monitoring PHV, otherwise known as the adolescent growth spurt, is the onset of the spurt and the peak of the spurt.

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