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Workshops to help improve your athletes’ performances

The Movement Skills and Physical Preparation workshops are aimed at assisting all coaches, regardless of their qualification level, or the ability/age of the athletes they are working with - from the 12 year old multi-eventer, to the senior International Discus thrower, to the recreational road runner attempting their first 10km race.

These sessions, with their blend of theory and practical are designed to stimulate a better understanding of the crucial movement patterns that underpin all running, jumping and throwing activities that form the basis of athletics. Then, to propose interventions that are not only designed to improve an athlete’s performance, but also to minimise the occurrence of injury.

Key exercise progressions include multi-jumps (plyometrics), multi-throws (medicine ball conditioning), running drills and movement patterns such as squatting and lunging. Whilst the series of workshops are progressive in content, coaches will be able to book onto the workshops independent of one another.

Movement Skills 1: features and benefits

  • An introduction to movement skills to develop athletic performance - improved use of the body to perform
  • Scientific theory of the demands placed on the body in performance - an understanding of how the body is challenged to perform
  • Practical concepts covered to overcome the demands placed on the body - improved library of drills and exercises to implement
  • Gained understanding of the various training modalities - the ability to implement drills and exercise within plyometric, strength and movement skill training

Movement Skills 2: features and benefits

  • A reinforcement of the key concepts introduced in movement skills 1 - enhanced understanding of movement skills 1 key concepts
  • Develop your ability to coach movement based training - your athletes have an enhanced opportunity to be more efficient movers
  • An introduction to how the ability to move can influence injury potential - understand ways in which you can develop robust athletes
  • Practical exposure to progressing and regressing drills and exercises based on athletic ability - an understanding of how drills and exercises can be tailored to an individual
  • Understand the importance of organising training strategies - the ability to organise and deliver a structured progressive sessions

Physical Preparation: features and benefits

  • A reinforcement of the key concepts introduced in Movement Skills 1 and 2 - enhanced understanding of movement skills 1 and 2 key concepts
  • Develop your ability to coach movement based training - your athletes have an enhanced opportunity to be more efficient movers
  • An introduction to how the ability to move can influence injury potential - understand ways in which you can develop robust athletes
  • Practical exposure to progressing and regressing drills and exercises based on athletic ability - an understaning of how drills and exercises can be tailored to an individual
  • Understand the importance of organising training strategies - the ability to organise and deliver a structured progressive session

Save the Date!

Workshops are now being listed for this Autumn and cost £20 to attend. Some can already be booked online and others will be available to book onto soon. You can find out more and book online in our Events Section.

Movement Skills 1

6 October 2018: Thetford IP24 1LH (online booking open)
13 October 2018: Basingstoke RG21 3HF (online booking open)
28 October 2018: Crawley RH11 9PD (online booking open)
7 October 2018: London W1T 7PA (online booking open)
27 October 2018: Chelmsford CM1 2EH (online booking open)
4 November 2018: Ashford, Kent TN24 9QX (online booking open)
15 September 2018: Skipton BD23 1QL (online booking open)
17 November 2018: Manchester M11 3FF (online booking open)
17 November 2018: Gateshead NE10 0EF (online booking open)
19 November 2018: Milton Keynes MK14 6BN
9 December 2018: Birmingham B42 2LR
26 January 2019: Sheffield S9 5DA (online booking open)

Movement Skills 2

17 November 2018: Basingstoke RG21 3HF
1 December 2018: Thetford IP24 1LH
8 December 2018: Crawley RH11 9PD
25 November 2018: Chelmsford CM1 2EH (online booking open)
9 December 2018: London W1T 7PA (online booking open)
12 January 2019: Milton Keynes MK14 6BN
12 January 2019: Taunton TA1 5AU
26 January 2019: Ashford, Kent TN24 9QX (online booking open)
3 February 2019: Birmingham B42 2LR
23 March 2019: Sheffield S9 5DA (online booking open)
21 October 2018: Skipton BD23 2AZ (online booking open)
26 January 2019: Manchester M11 3FF (online booking open)
2 February 2019: Gateshead NE10 0EF (online booking open)

Physical preparation

15 December 2018: Sheffield S9 5DA (online booking open)
2 February 2019: Gloucester GL2 5AE
3 February 2019: Thetford IP24 1LH
9 February 2018: Basingstoke RG21 3HF
24 February 2019: Horsham RH13 0YB
9 March 2019: Birmingham B42 2LR
16 March 2019: Moulton, Northants NN3 7RR
17 March 2019: Chelmsford CM1 2EH
2 March 2019: Manchester M11 3FF (online booking open)
9 March 2019: Gateshead NE10 0EF (online booking open)