Every year, Sport Manitoba Performance designs a spook-tacular workout for our athletes to complete in the weeks leading up to Halloween. A series of spooky-themed exercises, this workout puts a fun and challenging twist on training that you can incorporate into your routine. Try it for yourself or gather your team and put your skills…
Sport Manitoba Performance is one of the premiere training centres in the province. Our Performance team includes sports scientists, strength and conditioning specialists, mental skills coaches, dietitians, physiotherapists, and our performance coaches who just got a new addition to the team. Anthony Lawrence built a strong foundation for his career. He has a bachelor’s…
Team Canada Has Arrived Eight powerlifters from across Canada traveled to Germany with their Head Coach Jeff Butt (NL), Assistant Coach and Sport Manitoba Performance Centre’s Jacquie Mazur (MB), and Mission Staff Duane Carson (ON) to compete at the 2023 Special Olympics World Games. Team Canada’s powerlifters were: Josée Séguin (ON) Marley Gayler…
Have you ever been caught in the “I need to do jump training to jump higher and that’s all I need to do” way of thinking? So, you do the stair jumps at home. Your parents build you a box for you to jump onto. Or you buy jump sole shoes to help you…
Welcome back to part four of our series on high performance recovery. As a quick review: Part one: sleep Part two: nutrition and hydration Part three: training Today, we are talking about the fourth and final level of the recovery pyramid: Recovery Modalities for Optimal Performance. From the previous three articles, we know that…
Welcome back for part three of our series on high performance recovery. As you will remember from part one on sleep and part two on nutrition and hydration, we have the Recovery Pyramid below. Today, we are talking about the third level of the recovery pyramid: Training for Performance. Every sport is unique…
Welcome back for part two of our series on high performance recovery. As you will remember from part one on sleep, we have the Recovery Pyramid (shown below). Sleep is at the base of the pyramid, because it is during sleep that the majority of the rejuvenation and repair takes place to help us recover…
When you think of recovery for athletes, what images pop into your mind? For many, they think of athletes soaking in an ice bath or hot tub, getting a massage or stretching, or using fancy gadgets like Normatec Compression sleeves, massage guns, foam rollers or even other compression garments. These things can all aid in…
By Jeff Wood I’ve been testing athletes as a part of their regular training programs for over 20 years now, and here are my key takeaways from the experience: coaches love it, most athletes dread it, and most of the time, the information gathered from it isn’t used the way it should be used….
With Summer in the rear view mirror and Fall now here, we in the sport performance world are typically coming to the end of a full off-season of intense training to prepare for our Winter sports season. Of course, not all sports follow this schedule, so this article could easily be applied to any athlete…