December Groupsession

Our groupsessions are always filled with plenty of fun and good vibes! Or as one of our athletes Nesten said this week:”I am always looking forward to the groupsessions!”

Today we headed for the Belgian beacharea for our December groupsession! Let’s call it the ‘pre-christmasdinner fatburner session’ De Haan was the place to be, a little bit of rain couldn’t disturb our plans.
The day started with a Fartlek run on the beach after an easy warmup, in this “beachlek” our athletes could pace each one at own pace, while strides were found harder than expected at the beach.

On the bike we could do a nice MTBtrack, we begun with a technical start and than followed the 50K MTBtrack with ‘almost’ no mud. Athletes were so excited at the end some of them made a salto or went swimming during the bikesession. But as always, all gets well in the end and all together we arrived back in De Haan, our starting point.

The day ended with a shower, for ourselves….and the bikes!

If you put together  a group of athletes from 7 out of 10 Belgian provinces and u get good passionate vibes! Or can we say 8 out of 11 Belgian Provinces (Zeeland – Netherlands ;-))

And last but not least, a big thank you to Carine to be out there in the rain/wind making beautiful pictures of muddy athletes!

Thanx for a great weekend, I think bedtime will be quite early today! Tomorrow there’s another (training)day! One thing is for sure, our athletes have entered the road towards 2016!

 

Train Smart Perform Better
Jesse

The next season starts, where the past season ended…

We might say off-season doesn’t exist, of that…I am sure!

Yes, an athlete needs rest. That’s for sure, but a good plan has integrated rest in macrocycle. IF not, that macrocycle is crappy. Training and coaching athletes also means planning careers and following up the one macrocycle after the other. For most of our athletes their races started some while ago, then they got rest and now they’ve started their first block of training again!

So very soon it was time to plan in a groupmeeting, where focus was on aerobic capacity and strenghtening! As always, the atmosphere on our groupsessions  was just GREAT! As a coach you can only dream of such a nice bunch of people/athletes. With a great variety of athletes! Pas sunday we’ve got the input of our Belgian, Dutch,  Roumanian and French athletes!

These groupsessions also are nice memories, which we like to share with you in following pictures!

Steady high aerobic minutes on a cross-country circuit pass very fast

Steady high aerobic minutes on a cross-country circuit pass very fast

They are workers, but also players...or maybe because they work, they can play ;-)

They are workers, but also players…or maybe because they work, they can play 😉

Running is about nature, fun, relaxation, effort and most of all...having a good feeling during and afterwards!

Running is about nature, fun, relaxation, effort and most of all…having a good feeling during and afterwards!

Low intensity groupride with a big focus on strenghtening

Low intensity groupride with a big focus on strenghtening

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