Strength Test!!!
Amazing Work yesterday on the strength test!! There was huge improvement across the board. Keep up the fantastic work.
A couple of notes:
First, why do we do strength testing? Strength tests are a tool for us, the coaches, to gauge how well you are responding to workouts and assess your current level of fitness. Both important factors for us to write training plans.
"Yeah but why strength test? Let's do a time trial instead."
Strength test are a standardized way to test fitness. We can compare year to year and time of year.
Second, your numbers, team numbers and national numbers. Strength test are a tool for you. This is not a perfect skiing test. But we can gleam information from it. Look at your improvement from last year. You all have strengths and weaknesses that make you the skier you are. Being the best at sit ups does not mean you are the best skier but those abs will help you when we are out on the trail.
Don't look to closely at the numbers. General themes are more important. Look to see if one area needs improvement. Look to see if you are moving toward the top of the list. Compare your score to those you ski around.
"Ok, so how do I improve my score?"
The Canadian Strength Test is designed to test general ski fitness. By training for skiing your score will improve. You do not need to go to the gym and start crushing the dips. Keep coming to practice and you will improve.
"If we can improve outside the gym why am I waking up at 6am to get to the gym?"
Skiing is the unholy marriage of POWER and ENDURANCE!! This fact is why, at the end of the season, you all will be the strongest people in school. We have to go far, fast!! Gym training is one of the tools we use to improve your power. Races will hurt less if you train in the gym. With that said we also ski far, don't underestimate the value of LSD. Keep Training!!
If you have any questions, ask!! There is always a plan and it is in motion!!
2012 (Last year)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhyMp4PfMIWCdHNMd201dEZJV01rSnN2UlVaRWNfWkE&usp=sharing
2013 (Yesterday)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhyMp4PfMIWCdG1FWGJWLXVmTUlIUUxWV2V2c002dUE&usp=sharing
A couple of notes:
First, why do we do strength testing? Strength tests are a tool for us, the coaches, to gauge how well you are responding to workouts and assess your current level of fitness. Both important factors for us to write training plans.
"Yeah but why strength test? Let's do a time trial instead."
Strength test are a standardized way to test fitness. We can compare year to year and time of year.
Second, your numbers, team numbers and national numbers. Strength test are a tool for you. This is not a perfect skiing test. But we can gleam information from it. Look at your improvement from last year. You all have strengths and weaknesses that make you the skier you are. Being the best at sit ups does not mean you are the best skier but those abs will help you when we are out on the trail.
Don't look to closely at the numbers. General themes are more important. Look to see if one area needs improvement. Look to see if you are moving toward the top of the list. Compare your score to those you ski around.
"Ok, so how do I improve my score?"
The Canadian Strength Test is designed to test general ski fitness. By training for skiing your score will improve. You do not need to go to the gym and start crushing the dips. Keep coming to practice and you will improve.
"If we can improve outside the gym why am I waking up at 6am to get to the gym?"
Skiing is the unholy marriage of POWER and ENDURANCE!! This fact is why, at the end of the season, you all will be the strongest people in school. We have to go far, fast!! Gym training is one of the tools we use to improve your power. Races will hurt less if you train in the gym. With that said we also ski far, don't underestimate the value of LSD. Keep Training!!
If you have any questions, ask!! There is always a plan and it is in motion!!
2012 (Last year)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhyMp4PfMIWCdHNMd201dEZJV01rSnN2UlVaRWNfWkE&usp=sharing
2013 (Yesterday)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhyMp4PfMIWCdG1FWGJWLXVmTUlIUUxWV2V2c002dUE&usp=sharing
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