Dear Abdallah Rejeb, thank you for your interesting and Good question. Please meet my apologies for the late response. It was a crazy year... The most important element to answer your interest is that bio-banding is a tool to pay attention to connect knowledge about biological maturation and keeping training’s rules. Most coaches look only on this second part and as soon as possible want to gain results, do not carry about risks and Future of kids/youth competitors. Unfortunately, ignoring long term athlete development in so many different areas (psychological, social, performance, etc.) there is a wrong way and could destroy real talent (-s). And to create an athlete on a higher and higher level body, motor performance (fitness) and psyche, social relations, ..., need time. Step by step especially around growth spurt period keeping controlling, identifying and diversifying players according to the individual tempo of growth and maturation trainer should improve skills, techniques and also slowly increase loads. Such work should be prepared during training, as well as continue during special competition to observe reaction on training and grouping kids for more advanced in biological maturation (early maturing) and less advanced (late maturing). Biology supports motor development and thanks to it reduces risk of injuries. From our more than 4 years observation it works. More about it you will be able to find in Malina et al. (2004) Growth, maturation and Physical activity and other publications of our Team. Some other proofs are during preparation to publication and will be presented soon.

All Good and Good Luck!

:-)

Jan

Grateful for your elaborated reply. Yes I totally agree, biobanding is a promising avenue for optimizing training, performance, injury reduction and more importantly to take into consideration the critical period of growth spurt, the tempo of athletes growth and the maturity variability among peers.

Thanks also for good refs.