Elite Athletics

Merry Christmas to all. Hope everyone is having a fun and loving holiday with friends and family 🎄⛄️🎅🏻.

Hoping to see all the Elite Athletic clients and their families joining the Hybrid crew on the ice this Sunday 2-4pm at the Memorial Centre!

🚨 NEWS 🚨
Both of our girls who competed at the Junior Championships have qualified to compete at the 2020 Winter Games in Orillia/Barrie this February! and hard work and commitment has paid off. Continuing to represent with such outstanding accomplishment.

These two put on another great performance Saturday at the Ontario Junior Championships. They faced a lot of adversity over the course of this training cycle but still came out strong.
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finished with completing 5 of 6 lifts and an improved Sinclair score (strength to bw) with a total 2x BW.
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finished out the competition by winning gold for both Youth & Junior 45kg categories. Matching a PR total of 82KG!
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These girls did proud representing the weightlifting team. Always making us proud with their hard work, determination, resiliency & positivity. We can’t wait to see where we are headed next 💪🏻🏋🏼‍♀️
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Big thanks to and .beard for coming out to support and assist the coaching process with the weightlifting team, vital part to the success ! @ Oakville, Ontario

Doing sweet things, get you nice things 🙃. Thanks to for pulling through and getting the WL team some awesome new KG plates! I think the girls are pretty happy .

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Acknowledging all of the hard work, dedication and success these girls have shown 💪🏻. These plates will obviously instantly add 2KG PR’s to each lift.

Yeah, we got a pretty solid team and it’s been a good couple of weeks 💪🏻🏋️.
(55kg) 101KG total = 🥇
(76kg) 121KG total = 🥈
(45kg) 82KG total = 🥇

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Congrats to elite athlete .44 on sweeping the BC Sr. B lacrosse finals. Jake & the Ladner Pipneers are headed to Quebec for the Presidents Cup!! Jake continues to pursue his dreams, crushing big goals along the way through his consistency and dedication to every facet of his life. Never afraid of hard work - Can’t wait to see the next step!

Please help support Elite Athlete on her newest endeavour!!
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All that these people want are basic human rights and democracy for their country. These people are fleeing violence, even death just for being. 1 in 5 women in refugee situation have experienced sexual violence. This is not ok, none of this is ok, we need to do something...we need to step up.
We are so fortunate to live where we are and take for granted so much.
If you can support financially I would love your help in my fundraiser:
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Youth training is becoming more popular. Parents & coaches are increasingly enrolling children in gym style programs. Although this is an excellent trend, it is important to identify what exactly youth should be doing. There is a lot of pressure from parents & coaches on kids & SC professionals to “work them hard” & “make them sweat”. As SC coaches, we know that sweat equity has little to do with athletic performance. Following a structured long term athletic development (LTAD) program, taking youth through the steps of proper movement competency, physical literacy & strength based training will enhance their overall performance & significantly decrease risk of injury (Lloyd, 2012). When looking at different models of LTAD, we may see slight variations but the structure remains the same. In Meadors model (figure 1) of LTAD, the basis is around ATHLETIC development, which begins w/ Functional Movement Skills (FMS) & progresses through Strength to the ultimate goal of Power. When looking at Lloyds model, the basis is more so around PHYSICAL development, for long term gain of the individual regardless of athletics.
Additionally, STRENGTH & FMS (balance, coordination, etc.) should be the pillar components of all training programs (Lloyd, 2012).
The notion that resistance training is bad on the prepubescent skeletal system has been debunked. See no further than the impact a child takes in hockey vs a routine strength based movement.

More to come on this topic 👇
To further enhance exercise & intensity prescription analyze research on (training age, biological age, etc.)- For info on LTAD & the importance of strength based training for youth, check out the NSCA resources from the likes of Rhodri Lloyd, Larry Meadors, Joe Eisenmann and more.
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Resources:
Lloyd, R (2012, June). The Youth Physical Development Model: A Mew Approach to... : Strength & Conditioning Journal. Retrieved from https://journal.lww.com/nsca-sch/Fulltext/2012/06000/The_Youth_Physical_Development_Model__A_New.8.apsx

Meadors, L. (2012, May, 28). Practical Application LTAD. Retrieved from https://www.nsca.com/education/articles/practical-application-for-long-term-athletic-development @ Peterborough, Ontario