Recovery Strategies Build Champions
For Olympic coach Les Gramantik recovery days are not optional, they’re a must. It wasn’t always this way for his training group, especially when Gramantik first came through the coaching system 40+ years ago. “Athletes were trained very hard and not enough thought was given to recovery”, says Gramantik. “Now as we know, recovery is […]
#ThanksCoach: Les Gramantik
Determined. Demanding. Loyal. This is Les Gramantik, a European-born Olympic pole-vaulter turned legendary Canadian athletics coach. Gramantik made his mark in Canada by coaching two of the country’s most successful multi-event athletics athletes in history, Jessica Zelinka and Michael Smith. Zelinka is a two-time Olympian, finishing 7th at the 2012 Olympic Games in both the […]