For this week’s staff training, we de-camped into the labs to learn more about EMG (electromyography) – a way of recording and displaying the electrical activity in muscles. Our guide along the journey was Dan Gordon, a Paralympic World Record holding athlete who has also been a consultant physiologist for the UK Athletics Paralympic Squad (amongst others).
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This week, our ’staff training’ guest speaker was national “Young Coach of the Year” and regional “Coach of the Year”, Sam Buck.
Sam, a successful Diving coach and ex- international Gymnast, talked to our staff about a variety of technical aspects of the sport of Diving and the conditioning approaches adopted by coaches to train athletes for these requirements….
For this week’s Therapist staff training, our guest speaker was Greg Reid, Lead Physiotherapist at Cambridge United Football Club.
One of the best things about working in a tight-knit multi-disiplinary team is that you get to learn from the experience of the other team members – as do they from you. Because of this, every week we set aside time to get together and cover a wide variety of topics to make sure that we’re all learning and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
This week, Bob Challis, a level 5 (that’s really quite good, if you didn’t know!) Judo coach kindly popped in to talk to our coaches about Long Term Athlete Development or ‘LTAD’.
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