Today professional sports are based on strength and speed. We can only assume at what level athleticism will be in the professional sport in 5-10 years, when many young athletes who are now starting will finish their youth sports journey.
But we can already say that at that moment, the years of mastering and perfecting sports skills (dribbling, shooting, serving, spiking, smashing, ...) necessary to play a certain sport, will not be a guarantee for a successful career. They will need much more than a perfect sport skill …
Changes in top-level sports, where ever faster and stronger athletes are sought, occur at the same time as the test results of motor abilities and sports skills of children and young people are getting poorer.
Experts have come to the conclusion that practicing organised sports cannot compensate for the lack of movement during the day, which is increasingly present in nowadays young generations.
Children nowadays spend a lot of time sitting at home and playing computer games, making contact with each other through social networks, while in the past they made this contact through playing on the street.
And it was the very play with peers whenever and wherever possible that enabled previous generations to develop the so-called spontaneous motor skills together with the underlaying motor abilities.
However, there are fewer and fewer such optional activities in the daily schedule of our children. What can and must you do?
This is revealed to you by The formula for success in sports.
How to build a solid foundation that will
enable young athletes meet the demands
of professional sports in the future
READ ALL ABOUT
- When to start with physical conditioning
- Stages of athletic development
- Sensitive periods in the development of motor abilities
- Early specialisation vs sports diversification
- Maturation and selection
- Effective dynamic warm-up routines to prepare young athletes for optimal performance and injury prevention
- Principles of endurance training for young athletes
- Improving intramascular coordination and prevention of unbalanced muscle development
- Functional strength training
- Importance of young athletes nutrition
- Recovery and measures for overtraining prevention
- and many more…
- Bonus Chapter RISING STARS - why ever more young athletes achieve remarkable success in professional sports already at the age of 20, and even earlier?
FOR COACHES, STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING SPECIALISTS
AS WELL FOR ANYONE PARTICIPATING IN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG ATHLETES AGED 6-18 YEARS
Book reviews
All the texts in the 'Formula for Success in Sports' are supported by (modern)
scientific facts, as well as the author's own reflections, teaching us to add 2 and 2 ourselves and not do something just because the majority does it. As soon as I picked up the book, it carried me as if it were a novel rather than
professional literature. It is written carefully, systematically, reads easily,
and opens new spheres of thinking, all in favor of the quality and long-term
development of young athletes. I am pleased to know that in our region, we
have such quality literature. I hope it will be translated into other languages,
and that there are more success formulas waiting for us!
After allowing most of our members to study the book 'Formula for Success in Sports 1' in these three months, we received only positive reactions from our coaches working with younger age groups. Some of them have used the same or similar exercises before, but they did not have such a methodical approach to exercises as shown in the book. Football, as a multi-complex sport, requires daily improvement of coaches, so the book 'Formula for Sports Success 1' allowed us insight into some new knowledge and their application in the training process.
My junior career, actually the entire path from the beginning of playing tennis, is intertwined and filled with various experiences and decisions that can help me and others find the highest quality "formula" for creating longterm training processes. Considering the above, the books 'Formula for Success in Sports' educates the reader in every way on how to structure the developmental processes of individual sports, when to start and how to start with them. I think the content has a lot of necessary information for athletes, coaches, and parents.
„PRICELESS“: at the end of each chapter
some of the world's greatest athletes and
rising stars talk about their early training
days and give their advices on young
athletes training.
LONG TERM DEVELOPMENT
- Bruno Rezende, a Brazilian volleyball player – Olympic champion and the Best Setter at the Olympic Games in 2016
- Ada Hegerberg, a Norwegian football player – FIFA d'Or Féminin winner in 2018
- Ivano Balić, a Croatian handball player - according to the votes of the poll on the International Hand-ball Federation (IHF) website, he was chosen the best handball player of all time
- Ritu Phogat, an Indian wrestler - her sisters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari, along with her cousin Vinesh Phogat, have all earned gold medals in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games
DYNAMIC WARMUP
- Aurelien Giraud, a French street skateboarder - won the gold medal at the World Championships in Sharjah in the Street category in 2023
- Hugo Calderano, a Brazilian table tennis player - in January 2022, he reached a remarkable milestone, securing the number 3 position in the world rankings
- Martina Zupčić, a Croatian taekwondoist – won the bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing
ENDURANCE TRAINING
- Tigist Assefa, an Ethiopian long-distance runner - she made history in 2023 by setting the female marathon world record
- Brownlee brothers, English triathletes with 5 Olympic medals
STRENGTH TRAINING
- Danilo Gallinari, an Italian basketball player- playing for Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA
- Kyle Snyder, an American wrestler- became the World, NCAA, and Olympic champion in the same year
- Malakai Fekitoa, Tongan rugby player- won the World Cup in 2015 playing for New Zealand- All Blacks
- Filip Ude, a Croatian artistic gymnast- silver medal winner in 2008 Olympics on pommel horse
RECOVERY
- Penny Oleksiak, a Canadian swimmer- most decorated Canadian athlete in the history of Olympic Games with total of seven medals
- Andrea Dovizioso, an Italian motorclycle racer- member of MotoGP Hall of Fame
- Cristina Neagu, a Romanian handball player- the only female handball player in history to win four IHF World Player of the Year awards
NUTRITION
- Sinković brothers, Croatian rowers-one of the most successful duo in the history of rowing, won 11 medals: at the Olympics (3) and World championships (8), a remarkable eight of which are gold.
- Yokasta Valle, a Costa Rican boxer- World Champion in two weight classes and 2021’s “Female Fighter of the Year” by the International Boxing Federation.
- Gordan Kožulj, a Croatian swimmer-four time Olympian
RISING STARS
- Pedri, a Spanish football player playing for FC Barcelona, winner of Golder Boy award in 2021
- Joško Gvardiol, a Croatian football player- bronze medal winner with Croatia at World Cup in Qatar, Manchester City paid Leipzig 90 million euros for him
- Paige Bueckers, an American basketball player- In her first season at UConn she was an unanimous first-team All-American and became the first freshman to earn a major National Women's College Player of the Year award
- Letsile Tebogo, a Botswanan sprinter- in the 2023 World Championships, he won silver in the 100m race and bronze medal in the 200m
- Karim Adeyemi, a German football player- Bundesliga Rookie of the Season in 2022/23 playing for Borrusia Dortmund
- Briana Williams, a Jamaican sprinter- at just 16 years old, she became the youngest athlete to win both the women's 100 meters and 200 meters at the 2018 World Under-20 Championships
- Rok Možič, Slovenian volleyball player- the best scorer of 2023 European Championship
- Aori Nishimura, a Japanese street skateboarder- in 2019 she won gold medal in the World Skateboarding Championship held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Jessica Gadirova, an English artistic gymnast, 2020 Olympics bronze medalist, 2022 World champion on floor exercise, three-time European champion on floor exercise
- Valentina Raposo, an Argentinian field hockey player - Olympics and World Championship silver medalist
The book FORMULA FOR SUCCESS IN SPORTS 1
29.95€
Everything you wanted to know about young athlete development described in detail on 232 pages
100 strength exercises – for each stage of athletic development – with description and photos
numerous colour ilustrations with exercises for endurance development
sample training programs for young athletes aged 6-9, 10-14 and 15-18 years
30 top athlete interviews