You will take some hits on the way, but Long-Term Athlete Development model is the way forward
We have delved into the subject of Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) in our last blog post. We looked at the benefits that focusing on the long-term, holistic development of an athlete can bring. Many may feel that a lot of what adds up to the LTAD model is common sense – people mostly agree with the concept pretty easily. Yet we still see that actually applying LTAD to the whole training process as an overarching idea can be difficult as practical problems arise. But to solve these problems, we first have to define them.
The whole team of Sportlyzer has grown up doing sports. We have people who have excelled in swimming, karate or skating. We have people who have competed in rowing, football or triathlon and more. Even after youth sports we have stayed connected to the things we love, making us a pretty good example of Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model. It’s a sports development model that we live by, intended to ensure long-term benefits from age-specific exercising, bringing lifelong sports enjoyment and success. Let’s discover the major benefits of the LTAD model.
Physical literacy is a brilliant concept that has been gaining some traction in the sports community. Canadians, the frontrunners of the concept, have started to implement the idea in their sports community on a large scale, but to the wider world, being physically literate is either a complete nonsense or just being good at sports.
The winter time has begun and so have the holidays. Hence, on behalf of all the Sportlyzer Team, we wish you the snowiest days full of fun winter activities.
Recreational athletes always struggle to find time for training – extreme working hours, family, friends and social media barely leave a chance for anything else. Our team leader Tõnis recently found his way out and now he’s leading big time ahead of pro athletes in the Sportlyzer activity leaderboard. How did he make it?
As most of the coaches have probably seen, the new Sportlyzer training planner is now live. It is similar to the old one, but with a few extra perks. You can get a good overview of the planner from Silver Mikk’s blog post, but to see, how to use the different features of the new planner, keep reading this post.
Our iOS developer Silver Mikk has used Sportlyzer analysis tools to create a neat overview of his year of training. He gives us a good summary of his general plan, volume and intensity, of his training camps and of his favorite workouts.
Good news for all rowers – Rowing in Motion now allows the export of stroke rate data! This means that you can import it to Sportlyzer and merge it with data from your watch or other sources (if necessary).
Daily metrics has been updated with the fields for fat % and blood pressure. You can either enter them manually or use, for example, Withings smart scale which automatically syncs the information to Sportlyzer.
Events calendar can be used to add events, other than workouts, to your team’s calendar on Sportlyzer – e.g. training camps, meetings, birthdays, etc. Below is how you do it as a coach or a club admin.
