Category Archives: Other Coaching Areas

This covers all the other areas of coaching that are not just about orienteering or fell-running.

Core training video

There is a good core training video from pponline here. Read more

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British Orienteering Coaching Conference

I spent the weekend at Lilleshall at the BO Coaching Conference.  This year’s theme was mainly the more Elite end, but there were a wide range of sessions.

Mike Hamilton kicked off the first day with an overview of the Whole Sport Plan.  Read more

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Strength and Conditioning for Juniors

I am collecting information about introducing juniors to Strength and Conditioning, specifically resistance work.

This link shows the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association’s view as of 2007.

I will add further links as I find them. Read more

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Long Term Athlete Development – the Canadian Model

It appears that Canadian Sport has taken a long hard look at Long term Athlete Development and bought into the concept completely.  Lynne Walker sent me a number of links to do with this area.

The first is the link to the overall website, hereRead more

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Dynamic stretching for warm-up

This is a nice set of dynamic stretches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djDqDDQl-Y4

The only one I would criticise is the butt flicks where I would bring the knee further up so that the heel flicks the butt going upwards. Read more

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Running technique videos

One of my interests is how to coach running technique.  I came across these two videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0sgLIgqr18, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUkGntOOUE

They seem to take information from a range of running models, including Chi running. 

There are a number of tips in the clips, but the key ones for me are 1) lean forward from the ankles 2) have your feet land on the midfoot and under your centre of gravity 3) use a high cadence (180 strides per minute) 4) increase your “stride angle” by increasing flexibility. Read more

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Minibus Driving without a D1

This is a slightly unusual post for my blog, but it impacts on both sports I take part it, especially for the student population and those that want to share minibus transport.

I was under the impression that you couldn’t drive a minibus without the D1 minibus licence.  Read more

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Outdoor First Aid Course

I completed my Outdoor First Aid course yesterday.  This is a requirement of being able to coach orienteering in the more interesting areas.  It is the second time I have completed this course, the first being almost exactly three years earlier. Read more

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Energy systems and running

This post is a follow on from my post prompted by an England Athletics Endurance day.

I am interested in this area, but am not a sport scientist.  I favour sports scientists who will say, I think this is right, but there is still work to do to prove it.  Read more

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Stretching and Massage Session by Sue Read

Sue Read came to give a session on stretching and massage to the Broughton Ladies running group and I was invited along too.

Sue started with a general discussion about what was wrong with everyone, so she could concentrate on those areas.  Read more

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