Canadian Sport Centre Pacific Talent ID workshop

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This past weekend, the Canadian Sport Centre Pacific hosted a Talent ID workshop at their PISE HQ in Victoria.

Overall, a great workshop bringing together the top high performance sports coaches and administrators in BC.  The opportunity to work together with other sports, realizing we are all pursuing excellence for BC athletes is invaluable.

Some of the key take home messages were;

  • Directing participants to the sports they are best suited for is critical in fulfilling Olympic Dreams.
  • Sports do not “own” athletes, let alone any program, coach, club or other entity.
  • Athletes, parents, coaches and administrators need to realize the benefits of matching Talent to appropriate sports.
  • Talent ID applies to athletes and coaches (Theoretically, anyone in sport should work in an area their talents are best used)
  •  Talent ID is both internal and external
  • Talent ID requires an in-depth knowledge of “What Makes an Olympic Champion?“. Without considering this question, we miss the opportunity to recognizing talented athletes right in front of us.
  • Talent ID has stages
    • Awareness, First Contact and Recruitment: using both internal and external streams of athletes
    • Talent Development: tracking and identifying the Talent Profile of your athletes
    • Talent Retention: keeping athletes involved long enough to allow for Talent Development
    • Talent Transfer: both within a sport (i.e. ITU Elite triathlon to non-drafting triathlon, xc cycling road cycling, pool to open water swimming, etc.) and between sports (swimming to triathlon, wrestling to rugby, speed skating to cycling, cycling to rowing, etc.)
  • Developing a Talent Profile for each athlete is critical in Talent ID, Talent Development and Talent retention.

So the question for high performance sport programs; are there any fundamental differences between Talent ID and Long Term Athlete Development?

more on recovery from SIRC

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Recovery

You’ve had an intensive workout and your muscles are sore, you’re thirsty and your body is yelling at you to just lie down and rest. This is the easy part! Often neglected but very important, recovery is a major part of training and should not be overlooked. The idea is to make time for your body to get the necessary rest it needs to perform even better the next time you train. Muscles need to rebuild and your body needs to replace its essential nutrients.

SIRC has compiled the following articles to help you learn more about recovery and how to treat your body right.

Feature Articles

Sleep, Eat, Train, Recover, Repeat

Improvements in personal performance through exercise is based on proper recovery. Proper nutrition is an essential piece of the recovery process but is often overlooked, poorly executed or applied inappropriately. Nutrition can bridge the gap between exercise bouts and recovery period when rest is not possible. It helps the body adapt to the physiological stresses of training and prepares the body to train again. Recovery nutrition encompasses a complex range of processes that are essential for your body and fitness success.

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Supplementary Article

Chocolate Milk as a Potential Recovery Beverage

Rethinking Recovery

Your overall improvement as a runner owes itself to many factors, but among the most important and overlooked is your ability – and willingness – to recover.  Hard workouts result in short-term negative effects such as a loss of energy and tissue breakdown.  Some time is required to regain your ability to train at the level you were able to before the hard workout.  With too short of a recovery, the body postpones the gains you’ve accomplished and is less ready to perform the next scheduled hard workout.  With continually diminished hard days, your performance fails to improve because your training is, over time, compromised.

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Supplementary Article

Recovery Fun

 

Complete Guide to Recovering from a Marathon

When you cross the finish line of a marathon, your body is a war zone—a war zone where you’ve lost most of the battles. You are walking wounded and physically exhausted. It’s no coincidence that well-organized marathons have an army of medics manning the finish line. Fortunately, research on the many aspects of recovery from endurance events is prodigious and has revealed interesting data. Many exercise scientists and coaches are comfortable enough with it to make some recommendation and guidelines we think will enhance your post-marathon recovery. If you follow this advice, you will be back in good health and resume your normal training schedule in the shortest possible time.

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Supplementary Article

Recovery Fluids and Fuels

Quick on the Recovery

There are several reasons why fast-recovery workouts might be beneficial. This article suggests introducing speed early in a workout which keeps the heart rates up, offers advice to athletes who experience difficulties in tempo runs, and tips for reducing lactate which causes muscles to bunch. Athletes are advised to focus on how to effectively use lactate and to adhere to this program when performing short runs only.

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Supplementary Article

Nutrition to Fuel your Recovery

RTC Spring round up

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RTC U16 and U20 athletes have been working hard the past few weeks at HS track meets and recently competed in the Delta sprint triathlon.

  • The U16 BC Games selections began this past weekend at the Delta triathlon. RTC Vancouver athletes Michael Milic and Rowan Doherty opened up the season with a solid 1-2 finish, with Michael securing his BC Games position for his Zone. Rowan and teammate Ross Graham will look to secure their BC Games spots at the North Shore triathlon May 21. Well done guys!
  • Robynne Shannon opened her race with a solid pool swim (only 6 seconds off the lead) and posted a very respectable bike-run effort to win overall. Congratulations Robynne!
  • Carsten Lapointe also opened the season at the Delta Triathlon after returning from the “12 month disabled list”. Carsten was a very respectable 3rd overall and easily won the U20 race. Congratulations Carsten!
  • RTC Vancouver’s Kevin Friesen ran a 30:59.5 10k at the Vancouver SunRun finishing 9th overall. Teammate Jeff Manson ran a 36:22 in the same event. Congrats to both!
  • At local HS track meets, the U16 and U20 boys have collected a number of sub 5 min 1500 m and 9:30-10:00 min 3000 m races.
Next up U20 and U16 athletes are going to the Kamloops Sprint triathlon May 6th, while senior athletes are competing in the Race the Ridge cycling stage race April 28-29.

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Sport BC Master’s Athlete of the Year!

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RTC Vancouver’s Stephanie Kieffer won the Sport BC Master’s Athlete of the Year award for 2011.

Steph had a great season winning BC, Canadian and World Championships titles in 2011. These were the icing on a multi year campaign where she collected two more age group Triathlon World Championship Gold medals, an age group Triathlon World Championship Bronze and an overall Canadian National Age Group Championship win.

Congrats Stephanie.

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