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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
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, here. Read more
Posted in Fell-running, General, Orienteering, Sports Science
Tagged athletics, canada, long tem athlete development, LTAD, Orienteering
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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
Posted in Books, Fell-running, NavNight, Other Coaching Areas, Sports Science
Tagged aerobic, anaerobic, atp/cp, central governor model, lactate, lore of running, tim noakes
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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
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