Welcome to Scotia Multisport!
My name is Shane MacLeod
and I look forward to working with you to achieve your
athletic goals. Whether you are new to the world of
endurance sports or you have many seasons of competition
behind you, I know that I have the knowledge and experience
to help you enjoy success in your endurance training and
racing.
I have been involved with
coaching since 1998, in both recreational and competitive
programs. This has afforded me the opportunity to work with
a wide variety of athletes - from novices who are learning
the sport to provincial champions. Through this wide
variety of coaching experience, I have a firm grasp of how
to interact and develop training programs appropriate to an
athlete; regardless of athletic background, ability or goals
within sport.
I look forward to helping
athletes continually progress towards their goals and
experience success in their athletic endeavours. I believe
that with consistency and the right training program, all
athletes can continue to enjoy success throughout their
athletic career.
Your training program will
focus on providing you with the specific training required
given your unique circumstances, taking into account
available time, priorities, strengths, limiters and, of
course, your short and long term goals. Your training
program will be designed using the principles of
periodization, providing you with the appropriate training
stresses throughout your season. In addition to planning a
season around your short term goals, your long terms goals
will also be used to further inform the elements that are
included within your training plan. Each plan will be
tailored to your specific needs and will be modified as
required throughout the season.
I believe that every
athlete can enjoy success and will work with you not only to
realize your goals, but also to develop achievable yet
challenging goals based upon what you want to achieve
through sport.
Philosophy
I believe that athletes
become involved in sport for a wide variety of reasons and
my role as a coach is to help an athlete achieve success
within the framework they bring to sport. Through the
athlete-coach relationship, the coach should be able to
provide the athlete with guidance, instruction and
motivation that will allow the athlete to train both
consistently and effectively in order to realize their
goals; both within the sport and out.
When developing a program,
I use the six principles of sports conditioning in order to
guide the creation of a plan for each individual athlete.
These principles are:
·
Individual Differences – each athlete is
different and will respond to a training stress in a unique
way; therefore, each plan must be tailored to suit the needs
of the athlete
·
Overload – in order for adaptation to take
place, a training stress must be placed on an athlete that
is greater than what they are accustomed to
·
Progression – as the athlete adapts, the
training stress must be changed in order for the athlete to
continue to improve
·
Adaptation – as an athlete repeats certain
activities or motions, the body will become more efficient
at these activities or motions and will be able to perform
them with little difficulty
·
Use/Disuse – athletes will experience either
hypertrophy or atrophy depending on the stress applied and
need to have an appropriate balance of stress and recovery
·
Specificity - athletes must move from general
training to specific training as competitions approach and
that in order to improve at an activity, that activity must
be practiced
Further to the principle
of specificity, all training programs will be periodized;
beginning with general aerobic conditioning and moving
towards race specific fitness. However, this does not mean
that the early phases of training will be slow “base”
building type activities or that the last weeks prior to a
race that we will focus on VO2max intervals. The actual
program will be dictated by several factors, including the
athlete’s strengths, limiters, available time, goals and
race distance. |
