Athletic Development and Performance
Bringing elite level performance measures to your game. Optimising athletic preparation, performance and periodisation
Why Is There A Need For Optimising Athletic Performance?
What is the need?​
The sporting world is ever developing, changing and adapting bring the needs for more robust athletes. With the demands of sport on the human body always evolving, athletes need to now been stronger, faster, more agile and fitter. The physicality of a player is now a massive factor when coaches are selecting for teams, games and academies.
"Gone the days when you could simply get by on skills alone!"
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Importance​
Traditionally people have always focused on the skills element of sports and think that the skills alone can lead to desired selection. Skills is an important aspect but now there is a huge demand for players to be athletic, fit, good movers, robust against injury and have the ability to step up to higher levels of sport.
Being involved in elite sport, there has been a shift in mindset of coaches and selectors. There is always a physical component on a section sheet and at the highest level always 'minimum fitness standards'
What 'thePhysiologyclinic' Help With?
The Youth Athlete
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Athletic profiling
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Peak Height Velocity (PHV): Understanding your athletes growth spurt and maturation.
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Management of Growing related issues
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Tailored training around the growing period.
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Vitamin-D Testing and supplementation advice.
Injury Prevention
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Musculoskeletal screening: A physical MOT of the athlete's body.
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An Injury prevention plan based on findings.
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Sport specific exercise's to ensure skills are upheld.
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Advice in injury management
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Evidence based injury prevention protocols
Athletic Screening
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Athletic testing for performance marker:
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​Speed
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Strength
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Agility
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Endurance.​​
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Movement Screening
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Workload management
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Basics on athletic nutrition.
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Skills biomechanics; for example throwing technique.
