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David Tenney Seattle Sounders Part 2 Content

Sport Science evolution in professional sport in the US

Impact of travel and climatic variations

Quantifying fatigue

Small sided game planning based driven by monitoring metrics

Positional variations

"Simplifying data so it becomes meaningful for the coach" - David Tenney Seattle Sounders

Kids these days do more of everything earlier than kids of 20 years ago. From a sporting perspective, they play a wider variety of sport (certainly in Australia), they train more for the sports and they certainly appear to be commencing “train for competition” activities earlier.

So what is happening in the “trenches”? How are the current trends in LTAD manifesting once players reach the professional ranks? Clearly there will be mixed and varied opinions to this question depending on what sport you work in and the systems of development that feed it.

Here’s what I see on the ground…

Help your kids develop by learning to play. 

When the time is right we can make them into athletes!

30min Audio Interview with ACT Brumbies (Super Rugby) Physical Performance Manager Damian Marsh

Content:

How to get started in the industry

The coaches that influenced DM

Philosophical program overview

Importance of Culture

Rugby periodisation and planning

The future development of Rugby

Do you monitor you athletes?

Do you blindly take a “let’s do what everybody else is doing” approach or do you have a philosophical model for your approach?

Do you want to be a HP Manager…monitoring systems are not just about the numbers!