Periodisation: planning out your year
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...
Believing in myself, failing to set goals and hard questions
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...
My Training Diary and Bullet Journalling
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...Mental Training Basics
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.
Mental Training Intro and a story from Nationals
How many times have you seen a talented athlete not perform their best because they fall victim to their own anxieties? How do you think they would have performed had they been taught how to regulate their emotions, thoughts, feelings? How many times has your coach (or you’ve stood there as the coach) told you to do the jump/step/sequence/spin again because you’re still making the same mistake and no matter how hard you try, you just can’t do it? If you’ve been in this situation, keep reading and you might just find out something you didn’t know before.