Bio-Banding: Effects, Implications and Practical Applications in Youth Sports
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Sport and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2023) | Viewed by 404
Special Issue Editors
Interests: talent development; sport sciences; sport performance; performance testing; performance analysis; bio-banding; sport training; team sports; handball
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2. Norwegian Research Centre for Children and Youth Sports, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, 0863 Oslo, Norway
Interests: skill adaptation; athlete development; sports coaching; handball
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A different maturational status at child and adolescent ages caused by different biological characteristics (e.g., growth rate) may hinder the athlete’s sport development. This could have an impact on the process of talent identification and development in the context of youth sport due to the strong association between biological attributes and performance. Bio-banding is an alternative athlete grouping strategy that aims to mitigate the biological bias based on maturational status by providing the athlete with greater opportunities to enjoy balanced and appropriate sporting growth during competitive and training experiences. The main objective of bio-banding is to regulate, control, and diminish the negative consequences derived from the variability associated with biological maturation in different relevant factors in the sport development process: physical, technical–tactical, psychological, psychosocial, etc. Specifically, bio-banding is used to group young athletes into maturational bands based on early, on-time, and late maturers through different methods of maturation assessment. This Special Issue aims to give an overview of the main advances in this field through the publication of studies based on bio-banding, both in individual and team sports, whose scope of application is both short-term (experimental tournaments, training matches, training activities,) and long-term (sport transition processes). Furthermore, it aims to serve as a guide to orientate and train all the stakeholders responsible for the athlete’s sporting process: parents, coaches, teammates, etc. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Bio-banding in team sport;
- Bio-banding in individual sport;
- Effects of bio-banding on performance;
- Implications of bio-banding in the sports development process;
- Competition through bio-banding;
- Considerations of bio-banding-based training components;
- Player perception and experience of bio-banding;
- Bio-banding in women's sport;
- Bio-banding considerations for trainers, practitioners, and researchers;
- Opinions and reviews to synthesize expert knowledge (e.g., conceptual papers, systematic reviews).
Dr. Alfonso De la Rubia Riaza
Dr. Christian Thue Bjørndal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- talent identification
- youth sport
- competition performance
- biological maturation
- maturity status
- tempo of maturation
- maturity timing
- growth
- human development
- sport development
- percentage of predicted adult height attained
- maturity offset
