Posts Tagged ‘periodisation’
Applying the Bondarchuk Method of Training: Martin Bingisser
Systematic Planning for Your Athletes Developing a plan for your athletes can be problematic, time consuming and potentially useless. Martin Bingisser gave some very useful tips in his GAIN presentation which will help coaches looking to develop a system. Martin is an advocate of the Bondarchuk system of training which uses a limited sequence of…
Read MorePeriodization: beginners guide
What is Periodisation?
Most people start off with Tudor Bompa’s Periodization or, in this country, Frank Dick’s sports training principles when learning about periodisation. They cover the basis premise about modulating volume and intensity over a period of time to allow overload and adaptation to take place.
Read MoreTraining Design Do’s and Don’ts: Gary Winckler
Train to the athlete’s strengths
Gary Winckler has 38 years of coaching experience behind him. He has taken track athletes to every Olympic Games since the 1984 Olympics.
(Pictured to my right, with P.E. specialist Greg Thompson)
More impressively, each of those athletes has had a Personal Best or Season Best at the Games.
He knows how to prepare for the big event.
Read MorePlanning your Training: Periodisation for Young Athletes
What is Periodisation?
Periodisation is the term given to the practice of breaking down an athlete’s conditioning plan into specific phases of training.
Read MoreDARE to be different: Vern Gambetta lecture
“Dissect, Appraise, Reflect, Examine: Evaluate yourself constantly”
Vern Gambetta giving sound advice to the MSc Strength and Conditioning students at the University of East London last night.
Vern gave two lectures, the first on planning training and the second on coaching. It was a small group of students, plus myself, course leader Nick Bourne, and some football coaches.
Read MoreVladimir Issurin: Block Periodisation, UKSCA lecture.
Vladimir Issurin is a Coach with the Israeli Olympic Committee and Masters swimmer. His lecture compared traditional periodisation with block periodisation.
He started by comparing training and competition days between 1980-1990 and from 1991-2000 across a variety of sports.
Read MoreSports Nutrition- Grow your own veg
As Andrew Hamilton remarked a couple of weeks ago on the blog festival with regards to sports nutrition: Walk before you run. It constantly amazes me how clueless young athletes are about simpel eating facts. One of the reasons is that society has beome distant from food in its natural state. Do youngsters go scrumping anymore? (that would combine the tree climbing for pulling strength and healthy eating!).