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Monthly Archives: April 2011
The Plank
This post came through from the Sports Injury Bulletin. It discusses the plank exercise and the pros and cons of it.
I tend to use the plank in sessions I design as it is a relatively easy exercise to explain and a powerful core stability tool. Read more
Posted in Strength and Conditioning
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JK 2011 Review session
I met with one of my individually coached athletes to discuss his performance at the JK. We had spent a couple of hours geeking the Slieve Croob map, and had also managed to find a small snippet of map from Tyrella, the week before and it was clear to him what the benefits of doing this was. Read more
Posted in Orienteering
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National Coaching Day 16th April 2011
I organised the LOC group at the National Coaching Day at Blake Holme today. Carol McNeill had planned a set of exercises that we were able to make use of to individualise training for the people who attended. I added a rather simpler loop for a couple of Orange/Lt Green juniors. Read more
Posted in Orienteering
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LOC Saturday Morning Coaching 9th April 2011
This morning’s session was about getting the feeling of nailing a course.
We rarely get the chance to repeat a course, to see how we might improve. Even in training people very rarely return to a leg that they got wrong to try to get it right. Read more
Posted in Orienteering
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How to find a OS Grid Reference
The website http://magic.defra.gov.uk allows you to point at a point on an OS map and it returns the grid reference.
The tool is on the top left hand side of the toolbar, it looks like a grid with a question mark in it. Read more
Posted in Fell-running, General, Orienteering
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