Posts Tagged ‘athletic development’
3 Tips for Athletes’ Winter Training
“A lifetime of training for just 10 seconds”
Jesse Owens
Winter for track and field athletes is the ideal time to work on conditioning without the focus of peaking for competition.
Here Assistant Coach (and erstwhile sprinter) Matt Durber highlights 3 ways you can improve your winter training.
Improve your off season training
3 pillars of athletic development: Kelvin Giles
“Great coaches find a way or make one”
Kelvin Giles presenting his “Quest for physical literacy” at the Excelsior Athletic Development Centre on Monday.
The theme was putting precision, variety and progression into the coaching and teaching of young people at every opportunity.
Read MoreSpreading the joy of movement: Willand School and Kelvin Giles
“We spend the first two years of their life trying to get them to move and say Dada, then spend the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut up.”
Kelvin Giles gave a great 2 hour presentation to the staff at Willand School last Friday as part of their back to school training.
Athletic Movement: 8 tips on how to move like an athlete.
Or why you should avoid exercise machines!
strength and conditioning exeterHere are some thoughts on training gained from recent reflections/ reading or coaching. In no particular order:
Get athletes to move from slow to fast to slow again. Watch how some movement is easier at slow speed, some at fast. If they can do this fluidly, things are going well. If they struggle, more work is needed on the transition.
Do your athletes thrive or survive?
Every get the feeling you are muddling through?
That is what a lot of parents of young athletes feel like. Buffetted along the river of teenage years, carried by a current of car journeys,camps. training sessions, angry coaches, exams and hormones.
Physical Literacy/ Athletic Development: Vern Gambetta
“Paper is 1 dimensional; humans live and breathe in 3 dimensions”.
Vern Gambetta delivered the first lecture of GAIN V on the importance of Physical Literacy and how it underpins everything else we do.
(I know I have reviewed this backwards,but it also acts as a summary of everything I learnt this year).
Gambetta’s lecture emphasised the fact that the Human body is a self organising sytem that is capapble of amazing things: our training should reflect that, not inhibit it.
Read MoreWhat has happened to P.E in this country?
Progression, Variety, Precision
These were the 3 cornerstones of Physical education and a gym culture where “you went to learn, not to train” according to Ed Thomas at GAIN V this year.
Dr Thomas is a mine of information on the history of P.E. (I don’t mean a GCSE syllabus) and its educators.
Read MoreTraining young athletes: Part 7 Marco Cardinale
In this Olympic Year, I thought it would be a good idea to hear from coaches who have worked with developing athletes and their thoughts. Today Marco Cardinale who is the head of Sports Science and Resarch at the British Olympic Association.
Training young athletes: Part 5:Kelvin Giles
Strength and conditioning for children appears to be a popular topic. Unfortunately, short cuts are often desired (4 hour International Athlete anyone?). One of the common, if unpopular, themes from the guest Coaches this week has been fundamentals, process and detail. Today’s author is a great exponent of that.
Read MoreTraining young athletes part 2: Vern Gambetta, Roy Headey
In order to become a successful athlete, each individual needs to take responsibility for their own actions, whilst gaining the support of coaches, team mates, teachers and parents. This week we are looking at advice for young athletes looking to get better.
Yesterday’s guest blog by Frank Dick set the bar high.
Today Vern Gambetta and Roy Headey offer some insights into what a young athlete needs to do to prepare.
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