New running paths

Yo!

Soon time to go to HIF and train the U17. The weather is SHIT here, rainrainrain! I hope we will be inside in the hall, but I think we will be outside. I guess the hall is fully booked=( We will make the knee control program a bit more advanced today, more explosive! And for some guys there will be some extra core, they need to find their deep muscles instead of the six pack=)

Yesterday me and Demian were out jogging. I let Demian decide where to run, really good fun! We ran everywhere, small paths criss cross (can you say criss cross) and not the paths I normally go, or at least not in that order! We also ran on the beach for a while, that really sucks the energy out of your legs! NICE! But today I have pain in my foot again, so maybe that was a bit to unstable for it.

However, today’s advice is to run with a new friend, or at least someone who doesn’t run like you always do. Let the other person be in charge and just follow, and use your fantasy! Don’t be scared to leave the path and discover new environments!

GO!

Last day in Zermatt

time flies!

now it’s been a week and tomorrow i’m going home to Helsingborg again. Feels strange. Just as I got used to life here it’s time to leave and get used to life in Sweden again.

Today I decided to sleep in, since demian left early this morning for education in Magglingen. Even if it felt quite lonley to wake up and have breakfast without company it was also really nice. I like time for myself! Then I went down to town and met Nadine for a coffee and helped her with the worlds kindest and sweetest babies. I keep my fingers crossed for happy and quiet kids like that! haha! Even if I had thousands of things on my list I decided that there would be some time for climbing with Cecilia and Cara. So I bought two bananas, a whole package of dried meat and a bottle of water and went up to the climbing wall. The sun luxuriated  (gassade) but I climbed a new route and was mighty proud! Now my student fingers ache and me knees are sore with blisters, but i am SO glad I climbed once this week.

Photo by Johan Signell

In one hour it’s training for the kids. I will be alone with them for the first time but no worries. They are easy=) We will do knee control, quick feet, core and games!

Preparations for The olympics

What a day! First 4 hours training with the kids, then a nice lunch and afternoon with Maria and Hans (Follow their blogs to get a good insight in world cup skiers life). After they left I fell asleep in the sofa for almost two hours, soooo tired. When I woke up it felt like winter in the apartment so we put the fire on and had a nice dinner with only bread, eggs and tee. No fuss!! I think it’s the second evening and dinner at home, alone…always so much happening down here=) Now I just finished my last assignment of the crime fiction course. Pjuh!! Never again…

So, let me introduce my knee control phase 2!

 One leg dead lift  One leg squat

 ”Biking” for the abs

 Lunges with rotation

 Hamstring pulls

After knee control we practised for the olympicswhich is in leukerbad tomorrow.. The kids will compete in 12 different disciplines, both individual and in teams. Bellow is slak-line and balancing on a swiss ball. More about that tomorrow=) I made lots of movies today of other things we did, but I have to learn how to get them on to the blog…

 

Crayfish party

good morning!

Greetings from a sunny Zermatt where the summer is far from over! Demian just went to the hairdresser, I hope he will cut it all off, or leave it like it was=)

As you can see we were invited to a crayfish party yesterday! Demians first crayfish party and he was pretty suspicious to all sucking and not so nice behaviour…I think it is scary with crayfishes and shrimps. To break the necks on the poor animals who even have their eyes left…Yuck! I ate one, and then continued with knäckebröd and gubbröra=)

Andreas, Graciela and Demian

Now I’m soon going up to Furi to visit Nadine=) And this afternoon it’s training with the kids. Quick feet and maybe some intervals. Afterwards swimming in one of the glacier lakes, pretty cold, but nice after intervals=) I was really impressed by their technique yesterday on the knee control program. Strong core, stable knees!!! what an improvement!

have a nice day=)

Knee control phase 2

This afternoon it’s finally time for the new program. The kids are sick and tired of the old program, I can understand that. Now they performed that for 7 weeks twice a week!

Knäkontroll för unga

När jag träna knäkontroll med U19 i HIF idag så frågade en av coacherna mej om ja inte kunde göra samma sak med alla ungdomslag ända ner i 12-13 års åldern!!! Självklart ska ja göra de! Så himla härligt att han har förstått att man måste börja förebygga redan där.

Som i många andra sporter så är verksamhet och träningsupplägg byggt kring traditioner å mottot ”så har vi alltid gjort å de har fungerat bra”. Många tränare, föräldrar, idrottsmän å idrottskvinnor är rädda för att prova något nytt. För att bli fotbollsproffs MÅSTE man träna me så mycket boll som möjligt, för att bli professionell simmare MÅSTE man träna varje morgon innan skolan etc. Det finns inte jätte många som vågar kritisera å prova något annat. Tänk om det inte fungerar??? Men i och med att det blir fler och fler som utbildas inom idrottsmedicin och idrottsvetenskap så kommer dessa traditioner att ifrågasättas och redan nu vågar fler klubbar och lag träna annorlunda. I HIF har fystränaren under många år fått kämpa för att få de olika tränarna att förstå vikten av styrketräning, plyometri och ren konditionsträning. Gör fotbollstränaren som fystränaren säger är chansen större att det sker färre skador och att spelarna orkar prestera en hel säsong. Men de måsta våga TA TID FRÅN ren fotbollsträning och investera i fys och förstå att de får igen det.

En utbildad fystränare vet hur kroppen fungerar. Vilken sorts träning, återhämtning och näring som krävs för att prestera bäst. Dessa kunskaper har inte nödvändigtvis en tränare som till exempel varit en bra fotbollsspelare innan och sedan går från att vara spelare till att vara tränare. En sådan tränare ha ”bara” sina egna erfarenheter och vet hur hans eller hennes kropp fungerat under karriären samt hur han eller hon tränat. Jag tror att genom att anställa sådana personer som tränare fortsätter traditioner utan att ifrågasättas och idrotten riskerar att stoppa i sin utveckling.

Vad tror ni?