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Coaching Websites and Forums |
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Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre Audio Interviews - Dan Pfaff, Tom Tellez etc... Canadian Athletics Coaching Forum - Ask great coaches your questions
OzTrack.com - their ebooks are pretty good value for money. SpeedEndurance.com - Some interesting articles on training. |
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| Long Term Athlete Development | ||
| LTAD - Canadian Sport for Life | ||
| Coaching DVDs | ||
Dan Pfaff DVD - the biomechanics conference also has detailed explanations of therapy and the discus throw. Dan Pfaff General Strength DVD -Dan's famous General Strength series (all 20 or so of them!) for the first time on DVD! Running the BK Method DVD - awesome explanation of running biomechanics SWIS DVDs - DVDs from the excellent symposiums. Really cheap for what you get. |
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| Recommended Reading | ||
Viru, A: Adaptation in sports training, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 1995. - great book but very complex and expensive! Science and Practice of Strength Training by Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky and William J. Kraemer - Great book and easier to read than Supertraining. Frans Bosch, Ronald Klomp: Running: Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology in Practice - good book but the DVD is better. Also be careful of all the exercises you can easily over do it and their group are known for their injury history. The Permanent Pain Cure by Ming Chew. A great resource for more information on myofascial stretching one of the truly revolutionary ideas to come along in sports rehab over the past decade. FASCIA: Clinical Applications for Health and Human Performance by Mark Lindsay. Mark was the therapist for Donovan Bailey and worked closely with Dan Pfaff for many years. This book is covers most of the cutting edge literature on the topic of treating fascia including information on Earthing and energy medicine. For the serious therapist. |
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| Regional/National Athletics Bodies | ||
| Push Pass Relay Help | ||
A quick recap on positioning for the Push Pass relay changeover can be downloaded here. Also, try finding a download of "HSI The Sprinters Part 5" on the web or a video download site. It details the push pass quite well. |
