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Long Term Athletic Development (LTAD) Principles for Ironkids Triathlon: Part 4

by Allan Phillips | Wed, 04/13/2011 - 22:13

The Learn to Train and Training to Train stages are the most important stages of athletic preparation.  During these stages, we make or break an athlete!

-Canadian Sport for Life

Long Term Athletic Development (LTAD) Principles for Ironkids Triathlon: Part 3

by Allan Phillips | Tue, 04/12/2011 - 22:38

Old school multisport...Triathlon hadn't yet appeared in the Olympics when this picture was taken!

If you haven't done so, please see the first two installments of this blog series at:

Long Term Athletic Development (LTAD) Principles for Ironkids Triathlon: Part 2

by Allan Phillips | Sat, 04/09/2011 - 16:10

In the first installment of this blog we talked about general concepts related to a Long Term Athletic Development approach for the Ironkids Triathlon age bracket of 6 through 15.  In part two of this blog, we'll delve more specifically into the first two stages of the LTAD model: Active Start and FUNdamentals.

Active Start

Changing the Paradigm in Junior Golf: Titleist Performance Institute Junior Development Presentation

by Allan Phillips | Tue, 11/09/2010 - 22:31

Dr. Greg Rose created a presentation last year for parents at the Titleist Performance Institute Junior Performance Center in San Diego.  This presentation provides an overview of the entire TPI Junior Development philosophy.  The TPI system transcends junior golf development and is perhaps one of the finest junior development systems in any sport in any country.