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The Off Season

The Off Season

by Macarena Carrascosa | Oct 25, 2017 | Mental Training, Off-skate, Planning, Pre-Competition, Training, Uncategorized

Rare photo of me actually relaxing in Noosa, Queensland. It didn’t last long. Hi! We’re gonna keep going with the theme of planning out your training year today. If you missed the first post about this, please read here before getting into this post....
Periodisation: planning out your year

Periodisation: planning out your year

by Macarena Carrascosa | Oct 18, 2017 | Mental Training, Off-skate, Planning, Pre-Competition, Sports Science, Training, Uncategorized

Hello! Today I want to talk about periodisation and how you can use this technique to train smarter and avoid over training and burn out. This is going to be a 6 part blog series and will most likely take me weeks to get out but that’s ok… let’s just begin and...
Life Update: New year new me?

Life Update: New year new me?

by Macarena Carrascosa | Jan 19, 2017 | Life Update, Planning, Pre-Competition, Training

As Kylie Jenner famously said, 2016 was the year of “like, realising stuff”. While I’m not entirely sure what I was meant to be realising or if I realised anything at all, I do agree with her when she said that certain years have certain “vibes”. 2017 feels like it...

Mental Training Basics

by heymacu | Sep 29, 2015 | Competition Phase, Mental Training, Off-skate, Planning, Pre-Competition, Training

So it has been a long time since my last post on this topic… I could say that I’ve been busy which is true but the truth is that I have procrastinated this topic because I believe it is SO important and has made such a huge impact on my skating throughout pretty much my whole life that I really wanted to get it right.

Date and Quinoa Oats

by heymacu | Sep 3, 2015 | In-Competition, Nutrition, Pre-Competition

Confession time: I’m more than a little obsessed with having hot oats in the morning.

Nationals 2015 – Day 4

by heymacu | Jul 24, 2015 | Competition Phase, In-Competition, Nutrition, Off-skate, Post-Competition, Pre-Competition

I’ve stopped skating now but I went to the gym today and trained back and chest. Was pretty chill. This of you wondering, I went to the YMCA for $5 for the whole week so pretty happy with that!

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