2014 Coaching and Volunteering Conference: Coach Workshops

Key note speaker In this interactive keynote session, Frank Dick will offer his unique perspective on creating an optimal coaching environment. Having coached numerous Olympic and world champions, Frank will talk about how he creates and modifies the coaching environment to allow his athletes to achieve their full potential, and how we can apply these lessons to our own coaching environments.

Biography

Frank is the current President of the European Athletics Coaches Association, Member of the IAAF Coaches Commission, as well as Chair (and architect) of the IAAF Academy.

From 1979 to 1994 he was the British Athletics Federation's Director of Coaching, where he was widely acknowledged as and remains one of the outstanding sports coaches and coach mentors in the world. In this position Frank led the British Athletics team into its "golden era" with Olympic gold medalists such as Daley Thompson, Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe.

Interactive Workshops

Developing an Optimal Coaching Environment – Dr Chris Harwood How do you go about creating an optimal coaching environment? What structures have you put in place? How do you communicate your vision, values and skills with your athletes?

In this session, Chris Harwood, will explore these challenges and explain how we can best shape our club coaching environments to maximise the potential of our athletes and to create a positive environment for all our athletes. Chris will specifically explore how coaches can effectively use psychological skills to support the development of their athletes and how to create optimal talent development environments.

Biography Chris is a BASES High Performance Sport Accredited Psychologist and BPS Chartered Psychologist who has consulted with a variety of National Governing Bodies, Professional organisations, athletes and coaches over the past 15 years.

He acts as a consultant for the Lawn Association, Tennis Midlands, Nottinghamshire Cricket, and Nottingham Forest FC Academies, having served as Club Psychologist for Nottingham Forest FC between 2002-2004. His applied experiences reflect his interest in coach education and parent education, alongside the psychological development and education of junior and senior athletes.

The Physiology of Triathlon – Maximising adaptation - Dr Ian Walshe This session will explore current thinking on the specific physiological challenges of training for and competing in triathlons. Specifically, Ian will explore the science of training, adaptation, inflammation, periodisation, low glycogen training, stress and metabolic processes. As this field is constantly evolving, this is a great opportunity to get informed on the current best practice in this area and to help you think critically about how best to plan and periodise training and competition for your athletes.

This will be an interactive session and there will also be an opportunity at the end of the session for a Q&A.

Biography Ian is a lecturer in the School of Sport and the University of Stirling and his main research interest is focused on the area of inflammatory processes in response to stress.

Alongside his main research, Ian has an interest in applied physiology, providing support across a range of sports. He has previously provided support to a number of recreational cyclists and triathletes as well as elite teams such as Sunderland AFC and Newcastle Falcons. He has also provided support to a number of individuals representing GB Triathlon and GB Basketball.

Nutrition on the go – Strategies for busy triathletes - Joel Enoch We all know how important nutrition is but do your athletes struggle for time when balancing work and training? Sports nutrition expert, Joel Enoch will give you the best ideas on how to advise busy athletes on nutrition for training and racing. Joel will explore strategies for maximising recovery from training and getting the most out of your athletes on race day.

Biography Based in Edinburgh, Joel has a background in sport science (BSc), nutrition (MSc), was a member of the Lucozade Sport Science Team and runs his own sport nutrition education business (joelenoch.com). He is the nutrition feature writer for H2Open Magazine and has also competed for the GB age group team at World and European Triathlon Championships. Joel's blend of theoretical and practical knowledge means he is particularly well placed to address the practical application of sport nutrition principles.

Coaching Paratriathletes –Scottish Disability Sport With Paratriathlon due to feature at the Olympics for the first time in Rio 2016 there is increasing awareness of and interest in the sport. This workshop aims to demonstrate how you can adapt your club activity to accommodate athletes with a disability and offer more inclusive club environments and competitions. Delivered by Scottish Disability Sport, the session will also feature best practice examples from Scottish triathlon clubs who have all successfully included paratriathletes into their club environments

Sharing our best practice In this interactive and home-grown session, you will hear short case studies from 3 different clubs across Scottish triathlon. These case studies will give you an opportunity to share best practice and to learn how different clubs create their unique and effective coaching environments. Key issues will include: developing the coaching workforce, planning from multiple years down to individual sessions, recruiting and developing new youth and adult triathletes, increasing athlete performance, governance, coach-athlete relationships, club infrastructure and much more.

Positive Coaching Scotland – PCS is a cultural change programme developed by sportscotland, the national agency for sport, in partnership with the Winning Scotland Foundation, and is designed to teach young people life lessons and skills through sport, helping them understand the importance of effort rather than

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Age group focus – British Triathlon Federation The Age Group team is incredibly successful and with success comes hunger to be part of the party! Coaches as well as aspiring age group athletes are invited to be part of our age group session focus which will give an insight into getting started as well as coaching age group athletes.

Practical Coaching Sessions

Running better off the bike - Alister Russell “I just didn’t have the legs on the run”…”I had a great swim, was flying on the bike but just fell apart on the run”.

If these are familiar post-race athlete complaints, then this is the session for you! In this practical, hands-on coaching session, Alister Russell will take you through the challenges of running off the bike, why this so often impairs performance and then how you can coach athletes to run better off the bike. As a specialist triathlon running coach, Alister will help you to identify key features of effective endurance running and how you can structure and deliver coaching sessions to help your athletes to run better and faster off the bike.

Biography Alister Russell is a Level 3 triathlon coach, a UKCC triathlon coach tutor and has been coaching triathlon since 1998. He was a former National Junior Coach and has worked in USA, Canada, Singapore and Switzerland. His major interest is helping triathletes run faster.

Strength and Conditioning for Children and Young Triathletes - Dave Leith Often considered a taboo subject, in this practical session SIS Strength & Conditioning coach, Dave Leith, will help you to better understand the developmental needs of young triathletes and how to devise and implement S&C programmes to prevent injury and improve performance.

Biography Based in the central institute for sport, Dave works for sportscotland as a Strength and Conditioning coach. He is currently the lead Strength and Conditioning coach for Triathlon, Tennis, Basketball and Snowsports.

Saturday Evening Reception

Benefiting from the 2014 bounce – what mindset should we be teaching our ‘talented’ young people? – Tony Stanger

As the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow draws ever nearer, how can we capitalise on the ‘bounce’ effect? As Talent Manager for the sportscotland Institute of Sport, Tony Stanger asks the question of what messages are we sending out to our young athletes, and what messages can we send out if we are to maximise on the 2014 ‘bounce effect’?

Biography Tony works for the sportscotland institute of sport in June 2008 as the Talent Manager. He has a BSc (Hons) in Applied Sports Science and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh and has represented Scotland and the British Lions at Rugby Union.

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After retiring from Rugby Union in 2002, Tony worked as the Assistant Academy Manger in the Leeds Tykes England Rugby Academy with the responsibility to identify and develop talented young rugby players in Yorkshire. In 2004 he joined Irish Rugby Club as speed and skills coach, a position held until joining the Institute in June 2008. He is an RFU level 4 qualified Rugby Coach.

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