Pass it on! Mentoring in action England Athletics 2013 Coaching Conference – North Saturday 28 September Book before Leeds Metropolitan University 16 August Headingley Campus, Church Wood Avenue, Leeds LS6 3QS SAVE £10 For further information and to book your place visit www.englandathletics.org/north-coach-conference 2 3 England Athletics is delighted to announce the Workshop choices Physical Preparation: Building the Athlete from the Ground Up details of our 2013 National Coaching Conferences Coaches are invited to choose two Kelvin Giles workshops: one in the morning and one in Over previous years our conferences have built a reputation as one of our the afternoon. This workshop will combine theory and practice in order to explore concepts and flagship coach development events and once again we have planned a series of Places are limited and will be allocated on a workshops and keynote speeches to engage, inspire and enthuse club coaches. training to improve the physical preparation first-come, first-served basis, so book early to of athletes, and will help coaches to The theme of this years events is ‘Pass it on! Mentoring in action’. England Athletics avoid disappointment. understand ‘physical literacy’ and its continues to invest significantly in mentoring and the development of mentoring MORNING WORKSHOPS relevance to athletics. By the end of the relationships through our National and Local Coach Development Programmes and workshop coaches should understand the this year’s events will reinforce the value and importance of mentoring. Along with Nutrition: Eat and Drink like a maturation journey of the developing athlete and understand how to assess movement our National Coach Mentors, a number of mentees from the National Coach Champion Louise Sutton competence and how to select appropriate Development Programme will be on hand to share their experiences and facilitate exercises and their progressions. practical sessions in workshops led by their mentor. This workshop will focus on nutritional approaches to optimising performance. Led Coaches attending should be familiar with the Coaches are encouraged to attend the event with their mentor/support coach and by Louise Sutton, you will explore the day to UKA Athlete Development Model on uCoach plenty of opportunity will be given for coaches to expand their networks and share day nutritional dilemmas of athletes and http://ucoach.com/document/uka-athlete- ideas and advice with fellow club coaches. In addition to this, coaches will be consider practical recommendations for development-model-document/ . challenged to consider how they will pass on the knowledge and information gained maintaining health and optimising Mental Preparation: Harnessing on the day back in their coaching environment. performance with a key focus on recovery your ‘Inner Chimp’ nutrition strategies. The conferences will launch England Athletics’ Local Coach Development Programme Robbie Anderson for 2013/14 with practically focussed workshops to meet the needs of club coaches. To Youth Development: Developing “Your Inner Chimp can be your best friend or help this, coaches will be given the opportunity to submit a question which they the Whole Child your worst enemy... this is the chimp paradox.” would like to see addressed on the day when selecting their workshops. All workshops Jamie French This workshop will explore the incredibly will adopt an inclusive approach, encouraging coaches to consider how their sessions For many years, coaches, athletes, parents and successful mind management model are meeting the needs of athletes of all abilities. others have discussed what makes an athlete pioneered by Dr Steve Peters and help successful and how a coach or parent can help coaches to understand how to apply the Each conference will include workshops aimed at Run Leaders, providing an opportunity an athlete get the most from themselves. model to better understand themselves and for professional development to enhance their skills and to provide valuable links into In more recent years, several popular books their athletes, ultimately leading to increased the coaching community to assit with the progression of their runners. (‘Talent Code’, ‘Outliers’, ‘Bounce’) have been confidence, enjoyment and a more effective exploring this topic and in particular – what and successful coach athlete partnership. Programme for the day* makes someone talented or successful. A lot Run Leader: AthleFIT (Part 1) of these books focus on the work of Anders Craig Blain and Sarah Watson 09:30 Arrival and Registration Ericsson and the notion of ‘deliberate practice’. NB: this is part of an all day workshop – coaches will also be expected to attend the afternoon session. 10:00 Keynote The aim of this workshop is to demonstrate This four-hour workshop will introduce Peter Stanley: The influence of mentors on a coaching journey key considerations when coaching children; AthleFIT, the brand new fitness programme in particular, exploring ‘the holistic child’, 11:00 Morning workshops (for choices see below, pages 3-4) from England Athletics which combines the ‘stages of development and characteristics’, best of what are fundamentally athletics 13:00 Lunch (including Coaching Marketplace) ‘early specialisation’, and the implications of running, jumping and throwing events all this for coaching. The workshop will also 14:00 Afternoon workshops (for choices see below, pages 4-5) applied with the traditional circuit training explore the value and importance of approach in a fun and exciting programme 16:00 Closing Address ‘deliberate practice’ in the context of of getting and keeping fit. Graham Ravenscroft: Pass it on! coaching children. Everyone who undertakes the four-hour By the end of the workshop all coaches 16:30 Close AthleFIT orientation workshop will be should feel confident in their knowledge and *provisional programme – may be subject to change insured to deliver AthleFIT to adults. This ability to incorporate child centred activities workshop carries 3 REPs points for those who within the programming of their athletes. are accredited. book online at www.englandathletics.org/coaching-conferences 4 5 The Importance of Planning: Endurance: The Art of Endurance development of fundamental event group enjoy some part of their training over micro- Developing your Athletes through Running motor skills and then consider how these hurdles and hurdles. The use of hurdles can skills can be integrated into event group and improve mobility, rhythm, max velocity Andi Drake plus mentees Effective Planning event specific physical preparation or mechanics, and also the conditioning for all Paul Moseley with Andi Drake and This workshop will look at drills and skills specifically developed to meet the individual athletes. The process will help coaches Kerry Eddie coaches can bring to training sessions to needs of an event. develop the skills to identify athletes with develop running mechanics on a range of Why should we consider planning for our Workshop supported by mentees from the talent for the event, and by the end of the surfaces. This practical session will equip athletes? There are numerous examples of National Coach Development Programme. workshop all coaches will feel confident in training programmes and templates that can coaches to provide augmented feedback to their knowledge and ability to incorporate be accessed via the internet, but why would athletes using simple coaching cues to Speed: Developing a Speed hurdles into the programming of their you use them? improve running form. Athlete through Hurdles – athletes. This workshop will look at how planning can Delivering with Andi will be NCDP endurance Steve Mitchell – supported by Matt mentees Greg Hull, Andy Henderson, Andy Run Leader: AthleFIT (Part 2) provide a framework of ideas for coaches to Wood and Paul Wibberley NB: this is part of an all day workshop – coaches will use and adapt to suit the needs of their own Railton and Steve Vernon who will share their experiences of coaching middle to long The aim of this workshop is to demonstrate also be expected to attend the morning session. athletes. For a range of reasons a coach may how all developing athletes can and should not plan and just decide on the night what distance on track, road and off-road. they are going to do, but is this appropriate Coaching attending should familiarise for developing athletes? themselves with the blog on Posture, Shape The aim of this workshop is to demonstrate and Performance: Keynote speaker Workshop leaders key considerations when putting together http://ucoach.com/blog/posture-shape-and- plans. In particular, developing a group profile performance/from-filter/ Peter Stanley Graham Ravenscroft to construct a training program; setting clear, and Endurance Athlete Development Model: Peter Stanley is the British England Athletics National Coach Mentor for focussed goals; identify how to progressively http://ucoach.com/document/endurance-adm/ Athletics and England High Jump, Graham has over 26 years of link sessions; identify what you need to Workshop supported by mentees from the Athletics Head of coaching experience and has coached athletes evaluate at the end of your program (and National Coach Development Programme. Coaching and to every major global championships. He has why). The workshop will also challenge coaches Development. He was an IAAF Level 5 Elite Coaching Diploma and to think about structuring progressive, develop - Throws: the Skill of Throwing – previously the National