Training & Coaching Resources
NENSA’s goal is to post an array of helpful tips, video clips and clinic notes to help you take your training or coaching to the next level. If you have something you think would be a useful post for our ski communities please send it to us!
Resources
- U.S. Ski Team: Training Systems Overview
- Canadian Sport For Life Long Term Athlete Development 2.1– resource paper on the Canadian framework of Long-Term Athlete Development, a training, competition, and recovery program based on developmental age – the maturation level of an individual – rather than chronological age.
- This 50-page report from the Aspen Institute and Project Play, released in January 2015, aggregates the eight most promising strategies for the eight sectors that touch the lives of children. This document is a call to all stakeholders, parents, policy makers and coaches to work together to grow access to an early, positive sport experience. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sport for All, Play for Life: A Playbook to Get Every Kid in the Game`
Websites
- United States Ski and Snowboard
- Fasterskier
- Skitrax
- Canadian Sport for Life
- Changing the Game Project
Fast and Female
Fitness and Training
- Strength Training: Canadian Cross Country Strength test
- Stretching: Fred Griffin’s famous Stretching Program was introduced at the first Gaining Ground Clinics and is still pertinent today. The program was designed using a series of modified yoga positions emphasizing flexibility and range of motion specific to the particular task of skiing. It complements the dryland technique drills illustrated in the links above very well. It is a ten minute program that takes no more than fifteen minutes to complete, and is well worth checking out.
- Safety: Read this Roller Ski Safety Article by John Broadhead of Craftsbury Nordic
Presentations & Video Clips
NENSA Regional Coaches Clinics:
- Key Workouts for Juniors, By Nathan Alsobrook, Sept 2014
- NENSA Regional Clinic Notes, By Nathan Alsobrook, Sept 2014
- Goal Setting, By Rob Bradlee – Nov. 2013
- Coach Communications, By Rob Bradlee – Nov. 2013
NENSA Nordic Symposiums:
- College Skiing, Where Does It Fit? By Cami Thompson-Graves, 2012
- The Art of Coaching, by Ira Martin, 2012
- Testing Skiers: Quantitative Analysis and Daily Preparation, By Jason Cork, 2012
National U16 Camps:
- Nutrition, by Janice Sibilia- Part 1 – 2011
- Nutrition -Part 2 – 2011
REG Camp VIdeo clips
- NENSA Eastern REG camp- Elmore Uphill Running TT
- Western REG Agony Hill Climb
Training Research
- A Coach’s Library, and other resources from Dick Taylor’s website: NordicTrainingSources.com
- NENSA Nordic Studies Project (link to articles)
- UPPER BODY POWER IN CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING – Kenneth W. Rundell, Ph.D., FACSM
- Exercise Induced Bronchospasm – Nancy Crocker, MD
- Athletes and coaches may find these video clips from Sweden interesting! Double Pole vs. Diagonal / Double Poling /Sprint
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