This morning's pre-ice warm-up included more straight-away technique imitations in front of the big trackside mirrror following a few laps of running and dynamic stretching. Then, it was on to the ice for the first set of longer intervals - 4 x 4 laps or 4 x 8 laps with a focus on consistent lap times.
Todd McClements presented the day's seminar on Recovery & Regeneration covering warm-downs, nutrition, massage, contrast baths and monitoring including the Rusko Test.
Cor Zwaal re-hydrating and restoring his electrolytes
Following some mid-day practical application of Todd's advice, it was back to the soccer fields for the afternoon pre-ice warm-up including running, dynamic stretching, accel's and dryland start imitations.
Applying Todd's recovery technique
The afternoon skate session including laps of skating SFL (super %#&^(!*@ low) combined with accel's and flying (transition) starts. Additional coaching was provided by 1998 Nagano Olympics 500m bronze medallist Kevin Crockett who gave extra advice on corner entry, corner tempo and flying starts. Kevin, who will be assisting to coach for the remaining days of the camp mercifully withheld comment on the first flying starts of the season, but promised to be more outspoken in the days ahead.
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