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Resource Highlight - Training DVD
Learn to Train
Coaching Manitoba is pleased to present a new educational DVD for coaches!
Dynamic warm-up, Core strength, and speed development are all highlighted.
This coach friendly DVD, which has easy to implement drills for the Learn to Train (Females: 8-11, and Males: 9-12) and Train to Train (Females: 11-15 and Males: 12-16) age group athletes has been sport engineered by the Sport Medicine and Science Council of Manitoba.
It features developmental athletes in age appropriate drills and is the first of a series of multi-sport videos (coming soon) dealing with the crucial subject of Long Term Athlete Development.
Sample clips from the DVD
The DVD can be purchased online, from the same page where you sign up and pay for NCCP courses. Scroll down to purchase our Learn to Train DVD for just $13 (incl. taxes & shipping).
I've been using the dynamic warmup on 2 out of 3 of our weekly gymnastics practices since the workshop in Swan River (Bowsman) in January. My choice to use it 2/3 of the time was to evaluate it, to some degree, and to see if my athletes noticed a difference....
The difference has been noticeable, not only to me and my gymnasts, but also to their parents! I've noticed that it really has improved their vault approach/takeoff power. The girls have begun to request it on the nights when we do the standard (competition style) warmup. As for their parents, I'm getting questions as to what it is that we're doing differently, and one of the parents commented last week that her daughter (age 10, 60 lbs), "Ate SIX whole pancakes for supper after practice!"
My approach with this has been to "pick 6 from the bag of tricks", using variety and mixing them up from practice to practice. I absolutely love it, and am so appreciative of the clinic!
