Note: The male model reflects the fact that boys mature later than girls. Similarly, the female model reflects the early physical maturation of girls.
FMS = fundamental movement skills SSS = sport-specific skills MC = metabolic conditioning
Light blocks = pre-adolescent periods of adaptation
Dark blocks = adolescent periods of adaptation
The larger the font size, the more important and responsive to training a physical quality is during the corresponding stage of development.
UK Coaching Participation Team
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The UK Coaching Participation Team is relentlessly passionate about getting more people active. Brimming with energy and abundant of ideas, we’re sharing over 50 years of combined experience in coaching, teaching, leading, activating, educating, engaging and keeping people active. We strive to create the habit in children, sustain the habit in young people and adults and change the habit for people to reconnect positively with sport and physical activity.