Author: Giacomo Galletto

European Athletics High Performance Online Week

May 26, 2021 (updated May 26, 2021) Published by

European Athletics is providing a special online event related to its High Performance Series next month: the High Performance Online Week.

The event is “a series of two webinars a day during the 7 until the 11 June 2021, gathering famous athletes, coaches and scientists, to deliver to you the most up-to-date knowledge and experience on high performance in athletics”.

 

The programme of the week is available here. Don’t forget to register for free.

 

Moreover, the High Performance Webinar Series will continue from July – December 2021. See here the full programme and the registration link.

 

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“Mindful Coaching” Series

May 10, 2021 (updated May 10, 2021) Published by

"Mindful Coaching" Series

With a view to offering more and more services to member coaches, the European Athletics Coaches Association today inaugurates a series created with the collaboration of Jimson Lee, the creator of the SpeedEndurance.com website.
Neither Jimson nor his website needs any introduction and the EACA is proud to have him on board: it will be a key element in the development of the Association.

This brand new series “Mindful Coaching” aims to cover the world of coaching at 360° by interviewing coaches with different skills and experiences, also coming from other sports or other areas.

The first episode of the first season sees the EACA President Frank Dick OBE as guest, right after his 80th birthday. This episode’s title will be “Five decades of coaching” but, obviously, it’s impossibile to cover five decades in one hour only so we are planning to see Frank as guest in some other episode.

The series will be weekly or bi-weekly and it begins with an episode available for everyone, even non-EACA members. However, starting from the next episode, the series will be accessible for the EACA members only, no matter if Free, Premium or Pro members.

At this regards, let me reminds you that, in order to celebrate our President’s 80th birthday, for the whole current month of May the yearly Pro Membership is 50% discounted FOR LIFE, meaning that those who will become a yearly Pro member this month will pay half the price every year, not only at the sign up.
To get the 50% discount apply the code FRANK80 during the sign up process.

As always, we hope that you’ll really enjoy this new content. But we are only at the beginning: lots of ideas in our mind will be effective soon!

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Happy Birthday Mr. President!

May 1, 2021 (updated May 2, 2021) Published by

Today our President turns…………..

Wait a minute!

For my personal safety, let me only say that the candles on the actual cake number way more than the three in the icon above and that they in themselves constitute a fire risk!

To celebrate Frank’s birthday we are offering our members new content on the website and to officially launch the subscriptions for the Pro Membership of the EACA Website!

As a special offer, anyone that chooses now to sign up for the Pro Membership within the current month of May, 2021 and choosing the yearly subscription can get a 50% discount FOR LIFE on this annual subscription by applying the following discount code:

FRANK80

Keep reading below to discover the new videos on the website, taken from various editions of the International Festival of Athletics Coaching.
We really hope that you will enjoy these videos and let me say once again: Happy Birthday Frank! 80 more years!
 
 
 
 
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In these videos Peter Hannan will explain the strength training strategies that led Sally Pearson to the World and Olympic titles
Frank Dick's lectures are always so inspirational, starting from their titles: "The bridge to excellence" and "Success is a matter of choice, not chance"
In this fireside chat with Frank Dick, Ans Botha talks about Coaching World Class Sprints shortly after the stunning performance of her protégé, Wayde van Niekerk, at the Olympic Games in Rio where he broke the 400m World Record
Jerome Simian is the Strength & Conditioning coach of the Decathlon World Record holder Kevin Mayer and he works successfully with many other athletes across a variety of sports. In these two videos he first explains his systemic approach to Fundamental Physical Preparation in a superb lecture and then he demonstrates its application in a practical session.

ASEA Congress 2021 scheduled next 26-27 February

February 2, 2021 (updated March 24, 2021) Published by

“Asociaciòn Sudamericana de Entrenadores de Atletismo” (ASEA) stands for “South American Coaches Association” and it’s an EACA Partner in the Conference’s cycle.

The main title of the event is “Women at the Center of Athletics Training”, so the focus will be on women training.

Prof. Oscar Gadea will lead the conference, while Martin Palavicini will act as moderator, also mastering both English and Spanish languages. 

Ticket price is $ 30,00 (€ 24,72) only and, as for the previous conferences, ASEA Congress will be streamed live on our website.

Take a look at the conference’s program and subscribe!

Frank Dick interviews Stefano Mei

January 28, 2021 (updated January 28, 2021) Published by

Frank Dick interviews Stefano Mei

Two weeks ago we invited all the three candidates for the Italian National Athletics Federation’s President, asking if they would be available for a video interview. 

One of them courteously declined. Another, gave his availability for a written interview, so we sent a set of questions to his Secretary but are yet to hear back. Only one embraced our proposal for a video interview: this is Stefano Mei.

Stefano Mei is the star of the incredible One-Two-Three created by the Italian’s for endurance at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart, where he won the title beating the reigning World and Olympic champion Alberto Cova.

Next Sunday, Stefano will run for another achievement: the Presidency of the Italian Athletics National Federation (FIDAL). In the video below, our President Frank Dick OBE asked Stefano some questions about his project relating to coaching and coaches in Italy as well as if he thinks he will become the new president. If needed, activate the subtitles and choose your preferred language.

When we receive them, we will publish the answers to our President’s questions by the other candidate.

Over 150 presentations since IFAC 2006

January 20, 2021 (updated March 11, 2021) Published by

It’s a small step but a significant one!

Starting from today, over 150 presentations by almost 100 speakers collected during the International Festival of Athletics Coaching editions between 2006 and 2019 are downloadable for the EACA members, according to their membership level.

Want to know some of the speakers’ names? Would Clyde Hart, John Smith, Sharon Hannan, Damien Innocencio be enough to pique your curiosity?

If you are not an EACA member yet, register for Free or choose the membership level you prefer and access to the brand new IFAC Presentations Library!

December 12, 2020 (updated August 3, 2021) Published by

Second stage of the conferences’ cycle is the North America, Central America and Caribbean Track&Field Coaches Association’s annual congress.

From December 18th to December 20th amazing coaches and experts will speak at the conference, hosted by Richie Mercado. Each session will see two individual speeches followed by a final roundtable with all the speakers of the session exchanging their experience.

Our president Frank Dick OBE and Wolfgang Ritzdorf will double the IFAC presenting at the NACACTFCA conference too. In addition to them, it will be possible to hear from great names: Rose Monday will talk about women in athletics, Kevin Reid and Jimson Lee from Speedendurance.com will show the state-of-the-art about sport science and technology, Roberta Anding will show the most recent studies on high performance nutrition and Les Gramantik will deal on how to develop competent future coaches.

But this is only a piece of the cake: more big names will be announced in the following days so stay tuned on our website. 

The European Athletics Coaches Association negotiated a special price with NACACTFCA’s president, prof. Victor Lopez: for EACA members the subscription price will be € 35,00 instead of $ 50,00.

Don’t lose time: subscribe now to the NACACTFCA 2020 conference!

Harry Marra will speak at NACACTFCA 2020 Conference

November 21, 2020 (updated March 13, 2021) Published by

We said it and we did it!

Another great coach in the NACACTFCA 2020 Congress: Harry Marra!
Harry is the former coach of the World and Olympic champion and Decathlon former WR holder Ashton Eaton and his wife, the canadian Brianne Theisen-Eaton who won the Bronze medal at Rio in 2016 in addition to the World Indoor title and two Silver medals at the World Championships in Moscow 2013 and Beijing 2015.
The topic of Harry’s speech will focus on how to be an athlete-centered coach and learn specific needs of each performer.

We can’t believe you still have doubts: subscribe now to the NACACTFCA 2020 conference!

Malcolm Arnold talks about coaching evolution at IFAC 2020

October 30, 2020 (updated March 13, 2021) Published by

IFAC 2020 continues to add high-caliber pieces to its line-up.

Today is Malcolm Arnold‘s turn to be announced as a speaker at the conference. Malcolm certainly needs no introduction and his presence becomes a great opportunity for all coaches, especially the youngest, to hear from one of the greatest hurdles experts ever.

If you don’t want to miss this insight in Arnold’s experience, sign up to the conference!

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