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Keith Scruggs
Strength, Speed & Performance Coach to Olympic, Paralympic, & Pan-American Athletes Across the USofA | UNCA, ETSU, PhD Student - USC
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In the recent decade there has been a fair amount of quality information regarding long-term planning of athletic development. To note, two of the most popular conceptual models to date are the Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model (Bayli) and the Youth Development Model (YDM) (Lloyd). The LTAD model originally illustrated...