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James Marshall
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Jenny McGeever- National Champion
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Where have all the girls gone?
We actually had a weekend at home where it was sunny, so I took my Daughter down to the park a couple of times each day to play. There were lots of kids down there playing: football; cops and robbers; bike races; some sort of medieval battle with toy axes , swords and bows and arrows; some climbing trees. Generally larking around, with various running, climbing, crawling, skipping and jumping movements being part of playing.
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how to look beneath the headlines.
I got this idea from the Bad science blog- but a lot of the same principles apply to looking at research in sport and headline banners about amino acids making your testicles grow larger.
This article is an excellent read by Dr Alicia White and the points should be borne in mind when perusing the men’s healthy fitness type magazines.
http://www.bazian.com/pdfs/HowToReadANewsStory_vers03_26Nov08.pdf
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Fitness Targets
A couple of simple targets I have been working on with some athletes:
100 rope skips in 30 seconds- a basic start to show competency.
Then try to do 200 skips in 1 minute.If you are turning the rope at that frequency, it becomes a useful conditioning tool. This is a simple number that the athletes can go away and work towards.
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Garbage Yardage
This is a phrase given to me by a swimming coach – Alan reed- I work with. It refers to work being done with little or no end result except work. There is no purpose to the session, any results or transference to an improved results are purely by chance, rather than design.
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Weight training for sprinters
How to get faster using weights.
Following on from Frans Bosch’s seminar on running biomechanics, I have been paying a lot more intention to actions within the gym.The frontal plane, double knee bend society will tell you that all you need to do to get faster is lift more weight on a platform.
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Usain Bolt / Glen Mills interview part 3
Here is part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5FOG9SWEyk&feature=PlayList&p=E1FDBD29A51A757C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=36
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Usain Bolt/ Glen Mills interview part 2
part 2 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE-N9zSRMYY&feature=PlayList&p=639CEECDF5619C31&index=64
From a coaching perspective it is interesting to hear Mills talk about fun, variety, but still achieving their goals.
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Also how he plans and adjusts his plans according to circumstances.
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Usain Bolt and Glen Mills on Coaching and Training
Here is a fascinating interview of Usain Bolt and his Coach Glen Mills.
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Young athletes especially might like to hear how Bolt has worked hard to overcome adversity and maintains a level head despite world wide fame and adulation.
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Starting Strength Training 6
When asked to demonstrate a dumbbell exercise recently on a Coaching Course I was running, everybody, and I mean everybody showed me a bicep curl. That is worrying for 2 reasons:
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James has been training the top performance players in the county and has proved a great success. The sessions are well organised and the feedback and the programmes given to the players are excellent.
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