Webinar – Detraining and Performance Residuals: Minimal Effective Dose?
This Webinar is an excellent resource during the COVID-19 challenges in working with athletes. Posted with permission from the speakers, and Canadian Sport Institute Pacific CLICK HERE
Remote Coaching Part 1: What to Use to Connect with Athletes?
As a coach, I have used multiple methods to track training programs and stay connected with the athletes I work with. When I first started coaching, remote coaching involved using either a phone or a fax machine. My business partner and I recognized the challenge of programming and coaching for the athletes we worked with and approached a grad student at U of T to help design a program that enabled us to create, monitor and track programs electronically. There were challenges, glitches, and growing pains, especially for our athletes who lived and raced in different countries. Although there were [...]
Using Basic Physics to Overcome Equipment and Space Restrictions
Given the global situation, and with many provinces under varying degrees of lockdown, we are presently faced with finding strategies for remote programming that continue to meet the needs of athletes who do not currently have access to facilities. In particular, a major challenge we face is providing an adequate training stimulus with minimal equipment and space, to ensure strength and power qualities are maintained, rather than solely providing conditioning with body weight circuits. Whilst we might be limited on external loading, the more salient issue is what forces are imposed at the level of the muscle-tendon unit. There are [...]
