Why How We Select Young Sporting Talent Is Probably All Wrong
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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How to Optimize Peak Height Velocity
Sexual maturation is irrelevant to the purposes of sport. But you did mention one about peak height velocity and peak height velocity became really central to everything in youth development. Maybe you can just explain a little bit about what that concept means for people who haven't heard of it unfamiliar with how to maybe optimize it. So age at peak height velocity would be an indicator of your timing of maturity. And yeah you can use that to then classify athletes as either going through the growth spurge, having passed it already or having it in front of them.
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