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HI Gang here is the link to the boot fitting presentation we did at the NB Alpine Sport Science weekend.

Please take a look at this for more details on boot fitting and what to look for.

Thanks

HI everyone, So we have been doing for a couple months now. Things are going well. The athletes that are coming are showing some real progress. Good work and well done to all those athletes. And a big thank you to their parents who bring them every weekend.
So NB Alpine is hosting a sport science weekend next weekend, Oct 26 and 27 right here in Fredericton at the UNB gym. Please see the notices sent to the clubs from NB Alpine. Please let us know if you are coming so we can get the material and order lunch.
To coaches this is a chance to gain at least some of you CSCF licensing credits. So again please let me know if you are coming.

Do your snow dance and get your gear ready. In NB you never know when we could be skiing

Hey gang, one the things that is really important to ski racers young and older is agility and fast feet.
Take a look at the video I have linked for you and be ready to perform at least some of these over the next couple months as we prepare the ski season.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=B_bbBglPGHA

Hey for anyone in the Crabbe Mountain Race club, fall dryland will start next Sunday. That is September 8th. There will be an email going out very soon with the details. Keep your eyes out for it.



This fall we are really organized and have a great plan to help you athletes become the very best you can be. You have to do the work, but we will give you the tools to do it.



We will work on not only fitness and conditioning, but flexibility and some mental training skills as well.



So be ready, next Sunday September 8th 2013 we start the next ski season.



You have all heard this from me before, fitness and conditioning are the great equalizers. No matter where we live in Canada, we have the same opportunity to be at the same fitness level. Or better, if others do not do the work. With improved fitness, we can ski and train on snow longer, having a better training effect. A training effect is when each run is worthwhile and the athlete can get something from it. In our case, I would say our best athletes have had about 3-5 runs a day that they were actually getting a training effect. I would like to see that get to 5-7 runs. 5 runs a day where we as coaches can help you the athlete be better. FASTER.

 

Fitness and conditioning are only the first part of narrowing the gap. We need to eat right, sleep right, get the best of our recovery time, and have the athlete’s brains in the right place at the right time. The athletes need to have as much experience as possible in order to draw from when certain situations present themselves on the race track.

 

So let’s get this season started….

 

Hey everyone, I was surfing on the net a few days ago and I am not sure how I found this video but it is cool. Please take a look at how Mike Janyk from the Canadian Ski Team trains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=O2KmEe0W1zw

There are tons of videos like this from most of the World Cup athletes. Just go to youtube and type in your favorite racers name and you will find lots of stuff.
Ski season is coming, faster than you might think. Some of us have been doing fitness training all summer, some have been playing other sports and getting fitness from that. Either way, all this work this summer will have a positive effect on your on snow training. The better physical fitness you have before the season, the better you will be able to train. If last season you could do three or four training runs a day before you started to feel it in your legs, and this season you can do five or six, that means there are that many more times you can actually make an improvement in your skill.
Fall fitness is starting soon as well. More focused on the fundamental movement skills we as skiers need and more focused on the fundamental sport skills we need as skiers.

Things such as balance, agility, speed, jumping, landing etc. For sport skills things such as timing, reaction, balance, stability. All these things need to be worked on all the time to make sure athletes are at their best.

So once school starts training for skiing and racing starts as well.

Go find videos that you like and your coach will be happy to help you with them.

Hi everyone or anyone who interested in what I have to say about skiing and coaching and fitness. I have asked the athletes this summer to keep a bit of a journal listing their food intake and activities. I also promised I would do the same. I have not been good at it so far and was guilted badly Sunday by my youngest athlete who showed me her food journal. So here is my attempt to make this more right.

Yesterday was a bad day for food for me. We had a BBQ at work. I had a coffee and a bowl of cereal for breakfast, then another coffee later in the morning. At lunch I had a hot dog. I know I know that is not a good choice. Things got worse. At the BBQ I had 2 sausages so 2 hotdog buns, relish and two brownies. Then I had a piece of butterscotch pie. And did I feel it later. Too full.

But today I am making a public promise. I want to be fitter and feel better all the time. I want to be able to perform and get the most out of my training sessions. So today I had an orange before I went to the gym, a bowl of cereal and a coffee for breakfast when I got home.

My workout was great today. I did three different sets of 2 exercises. I am suffering a bit of a shoulder injury right now so no heavy weights. At the end of the session I did 20 seconds on (hard) and 10 seconds of rowing for 7 minutes. That felt good.

So again I promise to be post at least weekly what I am doing and chat about my food intake and activity levels.

Keep me honest athletes. You inspire me every day.

Hey athletes. Here is a great little fruit smoothie that is good as breakfast or a post work out recovery snack. Try it, let me know how you like it and if you did anything different.



250 ml (1 cup) skim milk
200 g carton low-fat vanilla yoghurt
2 tablespoons skim milk powder (optional)
2 tablespoons wheat germ (optional)
Any one of the following fruit portions:
1 large ripe banana
½ cup strawberries
1 peeled large peach
1 peeled small mango
Put all ingredients into a blender.  Blend until frothy.  Drink immediately.

ANALYSIS per serve	1  Glass
Energy kJ (Cal)	908 (217)
Carbohydrate (g)	36
Protein (g)	16
Fat (g)	1
Calcium

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: Nil
Serves: 1

Summer 2013 and monitoring athletes

Hey, where did the winter go? And the fall of 2013? Well lets start again. Below is a link to a "survey" or questionnaire I have on Google Drive to help monitor athletes. This link is for your summer activity level. I know there are some of you that play a ton of sports and I am afraid that you are so busy, you may not know how to find the time to eat...., get the right type of rest and how to recover. So that you can go back to your sport after each game or training session and either play your best or get the best training effect possible. So if you can find the time, please click on the link below fill on the survey. (don't worry I am the only one who can see what you say) and if you are really busy maybe I can help you. Maybe you don't need help and that is fine as well.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wsPvGlwRvzumJ7TviDjST-uvi3XXcXdaj28s9J2E0So/viewform