Own The Podium Boosts Canada’s Next Generation of Sport Scientists
Lessons Learned
#WECAN Rock the Rehab
Transferring Knowledge from One Sport to Another
2017 Year in Review – Day 2: And in second place…
Best performances of 2017 2nd place Kim McRae, LugeBronze, Women’s Singles After a fifth-place finish at the 2014 Olympic Games, McRae broke through to the podium in 2017 with a bronze at the World Championships. The 25-year old Calgary native only discovered luge after she attended a ski show where Luge Canada had set up […]
200kg is 200kg – The Importance of Accurate Measurements
Ryan Van Asten enflamme les Flames
« Communiquer de la connaissance, c’est simplement allumer la bougie d’autres humains avec notre lampe sans se priver soi-même d’aucune lumière. » – Jane Porter, romancière historique écossaise. C’est en travaillant avec des experts plus intelligents que lui que Ryan Van Asten est devenu lui-même un expert. Maintenant entraîneur de musculation et de conditionnement physique […]
Van Asten Lights Up the Flames
A Challenging Dryland Training Camp – Pushing the Limits
Imagine that you are world-class alpine skier. Every year you get about sixty days of training on snow, where you fit in up to six runs a day of about 60-90 seconds each. That’s roughly six to ten minutes a day of skiing over sixty days. Doesn’t sound like much, does it? But when you […]
Step Up to the Force Plate
Getting sucked into the online vortex of people selling the next big thing that will change your life is an easy slide. Snake oil, miracle cures and guaranteed diets abound – often for a lofty price. The strength and conditioning field is no different – there are countless ‘systems’ available for sale that claim to […]