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Training
For 2007 the club is offering programming for all skaters. Social skates offer fun and fitness, while more performance-oriented training on Tuesdays and Thursdays, usually from 6PM to 8PM, will feed your need for speed. Times may vary through the season with the sunset! The training venues will be the NRC campus on Thursday nights and the P8 loop in Gatineau Park on Tuesdays. In the early season the park may not be open and an alternate venue will be used.
With a wide range of skating skills and interests in our membership, club programming is offered in as flexible a way as possible. Each training night will have blocks of time where all skaters skate together. Some blocks are intended to allow skaters the option of a "free skate" to socialize or to train in their own way. Alternatively skaters may choose to join a pack of skaters in performance-oriented training.
Performance-oriented blocks of training will involve:
- More advanced skills development
- Plyometrics training (for speed and strength)
- Heavy focus on interval, fartlek and other speed training methods.
Throughout our regular training nights, some blocks of time will be committed to training for special programs:
- 24 x 24 - preparation for the 24 hrs Inline event.
- Base Builder - early season fitness development and ramp up for mid-season marathons.
- Legs of Steel - early season program of plyometrics designed to peak just before the mid-season events such as 24 hrs Inline.
- Marathon Madness - in the second half of the season this program will prepare you for premiere fall events such as the Ottawa Inline Festival and the Northshore Marathon.
Typical Training Night
Warm Up - All Skaters |
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Free Skate Social and fitness skaters |
Legs of Steel Performance-oriented skaters Plyometrics and other power building training. *Only first half of season * P8 Sessions will be hill workouts not plyometrics... due to blackflies! |
Technique All Skaters This block will focus on building good technique. As much as possible practice will be on the fly out on the track rather than stationary training. |
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*** BREAK *** |
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Endurance All Skaters Pack skating themed training where the focus is on skating co-operatively and confidently within packs of skaters. |
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Free Skate Social and fitness skaters |
Intervals Performance-oriented Skaters Early season intervals are geared towards raw speed improvements. After the midpoint of the season, intervals will focus specifically on marathons and coping with surges and attacks. * Fartlek-based training will also be used in these blocks. |
Cool Down All Skaters This block should include skating games to enhance the social nature of the session and give skaters a fun way to cool down and also work on their agility, with an activity that isn't "doing laps". |
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