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pdx paddling: October 2008
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008. Nutrition Over the Holidays. Race season is over and we are now in the base-building phase of the paddling year. Use this time to work on your stroke, your fitness level and your goals. Don’t forget the important role nutrition plays in all of these areas. The athlete’s diet can help to improve strength, optimize workouts and increase strength to weight ratio, ultimately improving your paddling performance. A more detailed discussion of Nutrition will follow at Session #5.
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pdx paddling: Spring Tune-Up
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Monday, March 30, 2009. It’s already April and racing season is just around the corner. Are you ready? In addition to being prepared physically and mentally, is your nutrition plan ready to help you perform at your best? Use your training time NOW to help prepare you for races to come. Consider what you will eat prior to the race. Will you need an energy boost during the race? How will you hydrate? 8221; There’s a reason for that! Stay tuned for nutritional tips for:. Early in the season. Perfect techniq...
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pdx paddling: November 2008
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Thursday, November 27, 2008. Good food equals good performance. Posted by pdx paddling. Sunday, November 16, 2008. Let’s Talk Technique. Perfect technique is not the same for everyone. Different body types, different body geometries causes us all to move in slightly different way in order to achieve optimal efficiency. Water conditions, race distance, paddle length, boat speed, height above the water also change the best way to move the canoe. Knowing what the root cause for an athlete’s non-optima...
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pdx paddling: Mental Training & Nutrition Seminar
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Mental Training and Nutrition Seminar. Is one of the biggest tools a paddler can use to gain an edge over competition and oneself (at times we are the mental block). How would it feel to:. 183; Have an edge where you can be immersed in the present so that you are totally unaware of distractions? 183; Increase the rate at which your technique improves where you are feeling the catch and grabbing the water powerfully with your blade? 183; Compete in the zone more frequently? Everyda...
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pdx paddling: Nutrition for Distance & Iron Races
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Monday, March 30, 2009. Nutrition for Distance and Iron Races. For races shorter than 60-90 minutes, you likely won’t need an extra energy source. Posted by pdx paddling. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This clinic has been post poned. Mental Training and Nutrition. Furthering Your Athletic Ability. Discover the benefits of fueling your body to optimize your paddling potential. Please email us if you have questions:. Blog catagories - pick one. The mind-body connection is powerful.
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pdx paddling: September 2008
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Fitness and Off Water Training. The off-season is a perfect time to work on general fitness. Progress made on general fitness from October through April will pay big dividends during the on-season. This can not be stressed enough. Increasing your strength and overall fitness will increase your performance. There are a several fitness categories athletes are encouraged or should train (commonly called “general fitness”). Good. Fitness is needed to have good. Paddlers need to h...
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pdx paddling: January 2009
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Perception vs Facilitation of Efficiency. When paddling what forces cause the boat to move? As a paddler what do you do that impacts how efficiently the boat moves? How does the energy you expend translate into forward boat movement? How does your preception of what you are doing actually affect the boat? These are some of the questions we'll be addressing at the next seminar. By talking through the power circles during the upcoming seminar, doing some visualization and isometr...
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pdx paddling: December 2008
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008. 8226; Missing the catch. This refers to pullback being activated before the catch is “locked”, thereby reducing the effective power in the first half of the stroke. If you are using good technique there will be heavy feel on blade for whole time blade is in water (from catch to exit). 8226; No or minimal rotation. Some people crouch forward with a bent back, and assume this is rotation. Think of having a rod up your back, and you are rotating around the rod. 8226; Poor timing.
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pdx paddling: May 2009
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Mental Training and Nutrition Seminar. Is one of the biggest tools a paddler can use to gain an edge over competition and oneself (at times we are the mental block). How would it feel to:. 183; Have an edge where you can be immersed in the present so that you are totally unaware of distractions? 183; Increase the rate at which your technique improves where you are feeling the catch and grabbing the water powerfully with your blade? 183; Compete in the zone more frequently? Everyda...
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pdx paddling: Mental Training
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009. The mind-body connection is powerful. For everything you think in your mind, your body has a reaction. All athletes can improve and one way to improve is to become well-versed in performance enhancement techniques. Athletes spend so much time physically practicing to get an edge on the competition. Yet what teams and athletes can really do to get an edge is right in front of their nose, or more accurately, right above their shoulders! Mental Training can take on different forms.
