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....
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...
by Macarena Carrascosa | Oct 5, 2017 | Life Update, Mental Training, Planning, Post-Competition, Uncategorized
After my last post, I dived into myself and started to ask the hard questions. Questions like who do I skate for? Why do I skate? What metrics am I using to measure whether I’m a success or a failure? What are my values and beliefs? Why are those my values and...
by Macarena Carrascosa | Mar 14, 2017 | Mental Training, Off-skate, Planning, Uncategorized
Due to my crazy schedule, I’ve been struggling to fit in enough time to train on skates. So recently I’ve started training on skates by myself during the day when the rink is empty. It’s been great! I get so much done in shorter amounts of time and I’ve been loving...
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...
by Macarena Carrascosa | Aug 7, 2016 | Fitness, Off-skate, Training
One of my goals this year has been to become more flexible. It is something I’ve been focused on a lot in my own training and in my skaters’ training. Recently I’ve felt like I’ve hit a plateau in my flexibility and am frustrated when I...
