Digwyddiadau

September

October

November

December

ENDURANCE – 24^th September– LIVE WEBINAR

Title - ‘Fostering creativity in endurance running coaches’

Presenter: James Thie

Audience: Any endurance running coaches thinking of ways of being more creative in the planning and delivery of training in this new ‘COVID-10’ age of coaching

Aim : The aim of the study is to Foster creativity in endurance running coaches through collaboration

Objectives

•             Deconstructing examples of creative ideas and practice in endurance running coaches.

•             Exploring the collaborative-creativity processes in endurance running coaches.

•             Enhancing the external and internal factors of collaborative-creativity in endurance running coaches.

ALL EVENT GROUPS 8^th October PRE-RECORDED

Title: What is an athlete? How to learn to run, jump and throw through play

Presenter: Fyn Corcoran

Aim :To build a young athlete’s skills through run, jump, and throw

Audience: For parents and coaches of athletes 6- 13 wanting to make athletics fun

ALL EVENT GROUPS 5^th Nov LIVE WEBINAR

Title: All or Nothing Kelly Sotherton- an athlete’s journey

Presenter: Kelly Sotherton

Aim: To explore the transition of an athlete from junior to senior success and playing the long game.

Audience: For athletes, coaches and parents wanting to understand what it takes to develop as an athlete both physically and mentally

ENDURANCE Dec 2020    ^{LIVE WEBINAR}

Title: Developing the middle-distance runner

Date : TBD

Presenter: TBD

Audience:

Club coaches – all levels

Aim – To understand the demands of middle distance running

Objectives

• To explore the physiology and training demands of the middle-distance events including athlete profiles
• To look at the training phases and sessions carried out by middle-distance athletes
• To discuss race tactics and competition preparation for a middle distance athlete

THROWS - Sep 28^th  - PRE-RECORDED

Title - Adapting throws training in the winter months and for large groups of junior athletes.

Presenter:Ryan Spencer Jones

Aim: To understand how to adapt training for throwers during the winter months and how to adapt that as a group

Audience:Club volunteers and coaches

Objectives

• Practical tools and delivery tips for large and small groups
• Adapting to winter and combating holiday season
• Changing it up – developing the athlete first thrower second during the winter months
• How to get the best out of a group dynamic
• Use of different equipment and spaces
• Adapting athletes training to focus indoor to outdoor season goals – how to manage that within one training group

ENDURANCE 20^th October – PRE-RECORDED

Liz Davies and Chris Jones

Title :Developing the Junior Endurance Athlete – supporting athlete progression through the pathway

Objectives:

• To discuss the Welsh Athletics endurance pathway for developing athletes – aims and opportunities.
• To look at ways that we can support young athletes when they move into the later stages of junior development
• To explore how the physiological profile of a young athlete can start to influence event choice and training prescription

ALL EVENT GROUPS - 19^th Nov  PRE RECORDED

Title - Profiling/planning and programming for the junior athlete

Presenter Fyn/Ryan/Matt

Audience :Coaches club and international

Aim: To understand how to profile an athlete and use this to adapt plan and program a athletes training plan across a year to the longer development plan

Provide general framework –What are we trying to affect and by when. FIIT Principle; overload, progression recovery. Highlight that the detail is in the delivery and not the planning

• What is the overall goal and how to feed that into the overall LTD
• Working back from the overall key phase or competition and how to establish what is important at each age group
• Coaching the person in front of you. Use two case studies how you might programme for two made up athletes looking at their overall lifestyle, psychosocial development, physical/ technical profile.

Include goal setting and managing expectations of athlete who are late developers of going through puberty or having exam pressures

SPEED Sep 30^th    - PRE- RECORDED

Title: Post Season Review, Annual Planning & Goal Setting

Presenter: Matt Elias

Aim & Audience:

Club coaches & new coaches looking to develop their knowledge of effective reviewing, planning & goal setting.

Objectives

This will webinar aims to -

• Objectively review a competition season with the athlete
• How to structure your annual coaching plan
• Explore goal setting – process & outcome goals
• Q&A session

THROWS - 26^th October LIVE

 Title - Looking back to look forward, What lessons can be learnt from experiences  - A discussion with Elite Athlete/Coach

Presenter – TBD

Date Time 28^th October 7.30pm

Aim – Lessons to be learnt from your older coaching/athlete self – what lessons can be learnt

Audience – Young Athlete/Coaches

Objectives

• Highlight personal experiences specific around profiling & planning and adapting to winter – coaching year on year and how to keep the momentum and freshness
• What experiences enabled you to learn – Negative and Positive
• Athlete development – mistakes made
• Personal development and how you sought the information

ENDURANCE Nov 20^th   Pre-recorded

Title: An Introduction to Race Walking

Presenter – Bethan Davies and Liz Davies

Aim – To introduce the basics of race walking to new coaches

Audience – Club volunteers and coaches wanting to learn more about walks

Objectives;

• What is race walking
•  Develop an understanding of the components of race walking - technical and tactical

Explore training ideas

SPEED 28^th October - LIVE

Title: An introduction to the sprint hurdles & focussing on technical skill development

Presenter: TBC

Aim & Audience:

Club coaches & new coaches looking to develop their knowledge & understanding of sprint hurdles. Focussed for development level athlete (14-19)

Objectives

This will webinar aims to -

• Develop greater understanding of the sprint hurdles & its demands
• Increase knowledge of skills & drills specific to technical development 
• Appropriate training volumes/loads for physically maturing athletes
• Understand the demands of athletes moving up in age groups
• Q&A session

SPEED 25^th Nov – PRE- RECORDED

Title: Training for the competition phase (all speed events)

Presenter: Matt Elias

Aim & Audience:

Club coaches & new coaches looking to develop their knowledge of how to train for a competition phases

Objectives

This will webinar aims to -

• Understand effective competition training planning & appropriate competition selection
• How to taper for competitions
• Develop an athlete centred approach
• Q&A session