Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes: Science and Application offers an evidence-based introduction to the theory and practice of strength and conditioning for young athletes. This new revised and updated third edition builds on the success of the first two editions and draws on leading research to offer a holistic approach to training centred on the concept of long-term athletic development and the welfare of the young athlete.
Written by a team of leading international strength and conditioning experts and paediatric sport scientists, this book includes expanded practical guidelines in every chapter to show how the latest scientific research can be applied by coaches to optimise young athletic potential. Including sample training programmes and exercises throughout, the third edition of Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes explores a wide range of topic areas linked to long-term athletic development such as growth and maturation, talent identification and development, methods of developing different components of fitness, and programme design. This edition also introduces new topics including monitoring and managing training load, the impact of growth and maturation on psychosocial development, creating appropriate training environments, and applied chapters devoted to integrating strength and conditioning into schools, early specialisation sports, and sporting academies.
This book is an essential resource for all students of strength and conditioning or paediatric exercise science, as well as coaches, athletic trainers, or physicians working with children and young people and their parents.
This book offers an evidence-based introduction to the theory and practice of strength and conditioning for young athletes. This edition builds on the success of the first two editions and draws on leading research to offer a holistic approach to training centred on the concept of long-term athletic development and athlete welfare.
Section I: Foundations of LongTerm Athletic Development.
1. The Impact
of Growth and Maturation on Physical Performance.
2. The Impact of Growth and
Maturation upon Psychosocial Development in Young Athletes.
3. Talent
Identification and Development.
4. Monitoring and Managing Load in Young
Athletes.
5. Coaching Young Athletes. Section II: Developing Physical Fitness
in Young Athletes.
6. Developing Athletic Motor Skill Competencies in Young
Athletes.
7. Strength and Power Training for Young Athletes.
8. Weightlifting
for Young Athletes.
9. Plyometric Training for Young Athletes.
10. Speed
Development in Young Athletes.
11. Agility Training for Young Athletes.
12.
Aerobic and Anaerobic Fitness Training for Youth Athletes.
13. Mobility and
Flexibility Development for Young Athletes.
14. Balance Training for Young
Athletes. Section III: Holistic Development for Young Athletes.
15.
Periodisation Strategies for Young Athletes.
16. Reducing Injury Risk in
Young Athletes.
17. Nutritional Strategies for Young Athletes.
18. Creating
Appropriate Training Environments for Young Athletes. Section IV: LongTerm
Athletic Development in Action.
19. Integrating Strength and Conditioning
into Schools.
20. Integrating Strength and Conditioning for Specialised Young
Athletes.
21. Integrating Strength and Conditioning into Sporting Academies.
Rhodri Lloyd, PhD, is a Professor of Paediatric Strength and Conditioning and cofounder of the Youth Physical Development Centre at Cardiff Metropolitan University, which offers afterschool strength and conditioning provision to around 200 young athletes. His research interests surround the impact of growth and maturation on longterm athletic development and the neuromuscular mechanisms underpinning training adaptations and injury risk in youth. Rhodri has published more than 190 peerreviewed manuscripts, 40 book chapters, and 4 textbooks on the topics of paediatric strength and conditioning and longterm athletic development, including the ACSM Essentials of Youth Fitness. He is a Fellow of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and has been recognised both nationally and internationally for his contributions to research and education, including the 2024 William J. Kraemer Outstanding Sport Scientist Award from the NSCA.
Jon Oliver, PhD, is a Professor of Applied Paediatric Exercise Science, Associate Dean Research, and cofounder of the Youth Physical Development Centre at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand and Strength and Conditioning Research Lead for the Welsh Institute of Performance Science. He has been at the forefront of leading research and informing practice on the longterm athletic development of youth. This has been supported by experimental research examining how growth and maturation interact with the development of physical fitness, responsiveness to training, injury risk, overtraining, and the health and wellbeing of young athletes. Professor Oliver has collaborated with many schools and professional organisations nationally and internationally in a variety of youth sports, working with populations from grassroots to the elite level.
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