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Coaches Channel

Your Coaches:

Coaching Coordinator: Shona Green (GLDCoach@outlook.com)


Shane Gibson: Level 2 Coach (Primarily Throws) and Official 


Lilly Gibson: Level 2 Coach (Primarily Jumps)

(E-mail for Lilly: lillygibson2004@hotmail.com)


Caroline Harris: Level 2 Coach (Experienced multi-class athletes coach)

(E-mail for Caroline: charr512@eq.edu.au)


Rhys Dunn: Level 1 Coach


Jo Gibson: Level 1 Coach


Mick Silvester: Trainer


Casey Robertson (Guest Coach): 

Level 2 Coach (Primarily Throws). Level 1  Official Discus & Javelin.

(E-mail for Casey:  caseyrobbo74@gmail.com)


Rach Dunn: U6 Coordinator


Our coaches are supported by a team of highly skilled and dedicated volunteers with many years of experience in athletics. We are grateful for the expertise they share with our athletes.  


Club Representatives/Officials: 

Shane Gibson: President

Rhys Dunn: Vice President

Jo Gibson: Secretary

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FUNDAMENTALS of Athletics

Check out this helpful video on the fundamentals of athletics; jumps, throws and running

Getting Started

Coaching Resources from LAQ

Check out Little Athletics Queensland Coaching Resources here

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Learning Resources from LAQ

Check out Little Athletics Queensland Learning Resources here

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Officials Resources from LAQ

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A message from us about training at Gladstone Athletics Club

Training information

Let’s talk training at Gladstone Athletics Club.

Our in-season training afternoons (in-line with school terms) are: 

  • Monday's 3:45pm - 5pm - Sprints/Running
  • Wednesday's 3:45pm - 5pm - Jumps/Throws


There are some guidelines for our training program:

  • Training is for U10 and up.
  • If you have an athlete in the under 10 and up bracket with a younger sibling, they may attend the fields on training afternoons, however….....
  • Your younger than U10 athlete will be playing/practising under parent supervision. They will not have coach supervision (unless advertised otherwise or subject to coach availability). Younger siblings must be 100% supervised by parents
  • Training is not a drop-off and pick-up service. We are not a daycare. Please stay with your children
  • Our coaches are there to coach - please allow them the capacity to do this.
  • Athletes who do not listen/cause disruption may be asked to leave. This may include a committee member/coach contacting you/chatting to you about your athlete's behaviour. As you can imagine, if we have to attend crowd control, our focus isn’t on athletics which is where we want our focus to be.


Our club is 100% volunteer-based. Our wonderful coaches, committee members and regular volunteers donate their time and expertise to our club. We would hate to lose them so we need your cooperation.

We are always keen to welcome new coaches/officials. If you want to become a coach/official, chat with us. With more coaches, we can table welcoming younger age groups to training. Until then, the training requirement is U10 and up. The more help we can get, the better.


Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. 

Training Tips and Videos

Warm Up

Key Principles of Plyometrics training

Dynamic Warm-up / Streches

This is a video of the warm up that we do each week up to and including number 17 Ankle rotations at time mark 02:19 

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Dynamic Warm-up / Streches

Key Principles of Plyometrics training

Dynamic Warm-up / Streches

Train with purpose. Know your training plan and what its purpose is. Start your purpose-designed training plan with Dynamic Stretches. Comprehensive list and demonstration is on this valuable video. 

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Key Principles of Plyometrics training

Key Principles of Plyometrics training

Key Principles of Plyometrics training

Consisting of 3 phases; Eccentric (pre-stretch (loading) phase, Amortisation (coupling or time to rebound) phase and Concentric shortening (rebound phase) this quick video introduces you to Plyometrics Training

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Plyometrics

High Jump Youth Coaching Guidelines

Key Principles of Plyometrics training

Broaden your understanding of Plyometric Training here 

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High Jump Flop

High Jump Youth Coaching Guidelines

High Jump Youth Coaching Guidelines

Drill Progression for High Jump

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High Jump Youth Coaching Guidelines

High Jump Youth Coaching Guidelines

High Jump Youth Coaching Guidelines

Fosbury Flop Youth Coaching Guidelines - more hints and tips for the art of High Jump Flop.


Coach Shona refers to: 

                                                                           Any decision about when to introduce the Fosbury Flop technique to a young athlete must be based on the individual athlete’s physical maturity (biologi

Fosbury Flop Youth Coaching Guidelines - more hints and tips for the art of High Jump Flop.


Coach Shona refers to: 

                                                                           Any decision about when to introduce the Fosbury Flop technique to a young athlete must be based on the individual athlete’s physical maturity (biological age) and coordination. It is important to remember that a difference of up to two years between a child’s chronological age and their biological age is within the normal range of variation, and differences up to four years have been known. Therefore, some children may have the physical maturity and coordination to commence training at 13 years of age, whereas other children will not possess the same competencies and strength until 15 years or older. The decision about the appropriate age to commence learning the Fosbury Flop should be left to experienced Accredited Coaches and Physical Education Teachers and be based on the individual physical and mental characteristics of the athlete. 

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Javelin

Javelin

Javelin

Drill Progression for Javelin

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more training videos

pre-ACCELERATION training

Pre-acceleration training is a fundamental component of track training. Please review this video. These skills are featured in our track training at Gladstone Athletics Club. 


If you want to see more videos of pre-acceleration training (or any track training), a simple search on Google and YouTube will give you lots of informative videos to review so you can put them into your practice.  

Forms you Might need

FosburyFlopSignOffSheet (docx)Download

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