Curling Offseason Training Elements

In this episode, Coach Steph provides a framework you can use to assemble your own offseason training program. Steph helps you plan and organize what, when and why you will workout.

Five steps:

• Assess your performance, movement and fitness

• Identify your main priorities

• Determine length of offseason and how the sessions will look

• Create a program that reflects the above

• Plan reassessments and adjustments to ensure your program is working.

For those who want a professional to make their program, check out the table in her website’s offseason menu.

Here is a list of other Empowered Performance for Curlers pod episodes to help support developing your own off-ice training program:

· Episode 04: Avoid these eight mistakes I made training to become a fitter curler

· Episode 09: Reverse engineering your goals

· Episode 12: Our critique of the LTAD model for curling

· Episode 26: It’s not how you train, it’s how you recover

· Episode 28: Using performance gap analysis to dictate offseason training for curling

· Episode 30: Sets, reps and training for your goals

· Episode 33: What counts as progress?

· Episode 39: Warm-up essentials for every curler

· Episode 73: Offseason training fundamentals for curling

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Don’t forget to check out the Empowered website!