Our guest coach for Wednesday is Tom Barbeau from Waterville Valley BBTS. Tom has a remarkable history for coaching, having been to three Olympic Games as a coach. He is also a Certified Master of the Burdenko training method of aquatic and land resistance training, therapy, and recovery. Our young athletes were instructed on 30-40 different movement patterns that take into account flexibility, core strength, and agile motor skills. Tom was able to keep it fun and educational, allowing each athlete to identify their weaknesses within different movement tracks. As Martin Guyer pointed out yesterday, you operate in movement patterns to the best of your ability, which equates reaching your MAX. The next time out you go a little further, pushing yourself to a new MAX. And then the next time even more.
Both guest coaches this week have given our campers tools to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and now it is up to the campers or parents or coaches at home to encourage repetition to see dramatic improvement. Two weeks with us will identify the baseline, and begin the journey of improvement, and in most cases the two week improvement is remarkable! However, there is a lot of time between now and ski season, and to see continued progress there needs to be continued growth.
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