Two different pace groups will go out for 30 – 45 minute runs (8 min/mile and 10 min/mile group). Be sure to dress in layers and bring mitts and toques. We will have a small fleet of demo shoes (spikecross – speedspikes) available on a first come, first serve basis at the Registration Desk.
Day 2
Dec 6, 2017
Featuring: TritonWear / VO2 Master / Training Peaks
Mark Pollock helps people achieve more than they thought possible. It is tough to deliver world class performance. Your people won’t do it by chance. With a high-impact catalyst you can help them act with the courage to make it happen. Mark Pollock is that catalyst. Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Mark went on to compete in ultra endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps including being the first blind person to race to the South Pole. He also won silver and bronze medals for rowing at the Commonwealth Games. In 2010 Mark was left paralysed after falling from a second story window. He is now exploring the frontiers of spinal cord injury recovery combining an innovative electrical stimulator over his spinal cord and a drug super-charging his nervous system whilst walking hundreds of thousands of steps as the world’s leading test pilot of Ekso Bionic robotic legs.
Cocktail Reception: 18:00
Mark Pollock presentation: 18:30
Dinner to follow
This session will explore the critical role of parents in facilitating athletes’ motivation, perceived competence, and subsequent performance in sport. Further, this session will examine the importance of parent-coach interactions in ensuring parents are best involved in sport. Strategies for enhancing parent-coach interactions and facilitating the development of support relationships will be shared.
Athletes and coaches in elite sports share exceptional dedication, commitment and drive in order to achieve and deliver high-level of performances. Combining contemporary theories of motivation as well as two decades of sport psychology consulting experience, Dr. Lemyre will present a dynamic approach to sustainable motivation for elite athletes and coaches. Examples will be used to highlight the complex environment of elite sports and the opportunities for motivational interventions to promote optimal performance and prevent risks for exhaustion and other debilitating states in athletes and coaches.
The realities of maximizing performance and adaptation without overtraining and overreaching. Dr. Carl Foster will discuss how to best understand training stress using both theory and the applied importance of periodizing plans. How to predict overreaching using the most scientific method of determining “training stress” as opposed to counting hours.
The pathway that produces elite athletes is the focal point of many nations’ and teams’ high performance strategy. Identifying, and then managing the environment that develops a talented junior into a potential Olympic medalist or World champion is fundamental to sporting achievement, and is optimized in a number of different ways around the world. Recently, the issue has been polarized into two dogmas – a talent model, and a training model. In the talent model, popularized by a handful of recent best-selling books, it is proposed that talent is a myth, that all individuals share common genes, and that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice are necessary to activate these dormant genes in order to become elite. This has implications for age of initiation of sport, as well as specialization, and the overall design of our sporting systems from school to professional level.
In this presentation Professor Ross Tucker will analyze the concepts put forward by this model, and describe how a rigorous and complete scientific understanding of elite sports performance, from genes, to daily training environments, reveals that often, doing the “right thing” is not necessarily the best thing, and what implications this may have for our strategic thinking about producing champions.
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