Empowering Basketball Coaches through the Implementation of Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) as the Basis for Designing Athletes’ Physical Training Programs

Developing basketball athletes requires a training program structured according to growth and developmental stages to achieve sustainable achievement. However, observations at Perbasi Batang Regency indicate that most coaches have not yet implemented the long-term athlete development (LTAD) concept in developing training programs. This community service activity aims to improve coach competency through LTAD-based training. The method used is Participatory Action Learning, which includes problem analysis, needs analysis, collaboration, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The target group was 30 basketball coaches. Evaluation used pre-tests and post-tests. The results showed that the average coach knowledge score increased from 57.8% in the pre-test to 83.3% in the post-test. The average individual percentage improvement across all participants was 45.8%; this figure represents the mean of each participant’s percentage improvement and is not the direct difference between the pre-test and post-test group means. The activity also produced group-based draft training programs aligned with LTAD stages.