Category Archives: Sports Science

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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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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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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Sports Science

In my relentless drive to try to understand about energy systems, running style etc. I stumbled across this site http://www.sportsscientists.com/.  Its a blog from a couple of Sports Scientists who did their research for Professor Noakes in South Africa.

They have some interesting articles of running economy, barefoot running and other issues. Read more

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Athletics Endurance Day

I spent Saturday 19th March 2011 in Carlisle on a UKAthletics Endurance day, tutor Stephen Pearson from Horwich RMI.

We covered a pretty wide range of topics.  The one that I found most thought provoking was the idea that you should link all training sessions to one of the three energy systems. Read more

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