Fun and Easy

Thursday May 27th, The Arboretum. Every forth training week is a rest week; lots of days off and easy training. We still have practices on rest weeks, but it is nice to have a mental break from intervals and intensity. Rest week practices therefore include lots of fun and low organization games straight of your elementary school gym class. This week, after a bit of strength, we played handball, capture the medicine ball and fireball (a free-for-all version of dodgeball). Pictures are few and far between today as I was too busy enjoying the games.

Nakkersoccer: Two balls, twice the fun.

An over the should view of some core.

More core.

Plyos. Soo many plyos!

Colin is actually not doing plyos; he just got shot in the back.

A few years ago Nakkertok starting having upwards of 20 athletes  racing at every provincial cup race the team participated in. Other coaches would jokingly vow to start 'recruiting out of daycare' next year so they could match our numbers. I remember thinking that our recruiting is already done for the next 5 years at least. Above is a picture of the crew out on Thursday. There where 33 athletes ages 13-16 at practice, which is actually about 15 less than the whole group for this age. Below this group there are another 70 to 80 racing rabbits and midgets who will start in the fall and another 20 athletes older than this group who train at different times. For the coaches this can mean busy days and practices, but we are very lucky to not have to worry about recruiting more athletes.

      Practice over, Emilie happy!