Hi guys! Following on from last week’s blog, I would like to
share a website which Keith added to the unit’s Facebook page.
The website, which can be viewed here,
displays a number of interesting facts and figures about social networking
sites. One of the main points that I
took away from reading this website was the power of social networking. Yes, I realised before that social networking
was a powerful tool, but some of the figures shown are quite phenomenal. Such figures include:
·
On average in 2011, 140 million tweets were sent
per day.
·
There are now 845+ million users on Facebook.
·
On March 12 2011, 572,000 people registered a
Twitter account.
These numbers are incredible and certainly reinforce how much
social media can influence society.
Keith’s presentation this week alluded to both Tudor Bompa
and Istvan Balyi, and the training models developed by these two men. For this week’s blog, I thought I would offer
a little bit more insight into these two people and the training models they
have developed.
Tudor Bompa is considered by many as the ‘father’ of
periodisation. Bompa created a method
which broke down an athlete’s training program to specify their training and
allow them to benefit more from their training.
An example of this is shown here.
Bompa was born in Romania and begun his sporting career by
playing soccer, as well as competing in track and field events. Bompa later got into the sport of rowing and
in the 1958 Rowing European Championships he won a silver medal. Bompa is the only coach to produce both
Olympic and World Champions in 2 different sports – rowing and athletics. To date, he has written 16 books, selling
more than 650,000 copies worldwide. I
gathered my information from this website, where more knowledge about Bompa can be gained.
Similarly, Istvan Balyi is considered an expert in long term
athlete development (LTAD). An example
of the ‘Balyi Model’ can be seen below:
The LTAD principles allow coaches to
integrate training, competition and recovery programming into the biological
development of an individual so that they can reach their full potential. The
concept involves a number of stages which are shown and displayed in detail on
this website
While exploring YouTube for videos relating to periodization,
I found this video about coaching. Like
me, I’m sure many people won’t find it very interesting as it’s a rather basic
video. However, I still think it displays
a very good insight into coaching. It
shows the role of a coach very well. Basically it demonstrates how the athlete or pupil
can achieve success by themselves, simply with the guidance of a coach. Anyway, if you’re interested then check it
out!
Thanks for reading!
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