Paavo Coaching Clinics

Racing From Training #6 (RFT)

Paavo Clinics—Where Coaches Go To Become Better

Current Notices

1. Another Welcome to 2009-2010 Paavo Clinic Season—We are on a continual restructuring of the web site and the response process.  Thanks for your patience for those who have responded recently.  Weekly and some daily updates will be the pattern for the clinic season.
2. The RFT Clinic Emailer will be sent once a week to your email.  The format is simple but direct as to what the Paavo Clinics are for a coach who has a sincere desire to become better.
3. The first look at the new clinic schedule is on the web at: http://thepaavos.com/clinic/schedule/sample-schedule
4. An Option:  Hosting a Paavo Clinic—currently contact Coach Sellers at: CoachSellers@thepaavos.com
5. The clinic is just as special as when started in 1987 as we are adding more cumulative presentations by Paavo connected coaches.

1. New:  Coaches Corner on the web and the 3^rd one is being added as I speak.—check it out for it is from coaches like you.
2. All  RFTs are being posted in the RFT Web Archives

NOTE THE DOWNLOADS—CLINIC BROCHURE AND CLINIC QUICK RETURN ENROLLMENT FORM.

Your Runners—Making A Difference, Best Training, & Best Coaching

Logbooks—“The most secret weapon a runner can have.”  Jared Aldrich, Paavo Camps Runner

***A Paavo Clinic Is For Those Who Attend.

From:  The Clinic Development 1987 is today, and today is 1987.    Do you want to be a better coach?  If so, then you must become a better teacher of training.   It is a training sport as it was in 1987.  The perspective still rings true.

From:    The Clinic Manual

*** C5 Paavo Racing Basics

1.      And C4-1 The Three Training Tools

There are three and are implemented in the following order in every new off-season training progression.

• Oxygen Delivery System—Always first in every new training progression.

• Lactic Acid Training—Starts based on the Oxygen Delivery Progression Landmarks

• Race Shocking—Every race is or is not a race shock and is the basis for all training conversions to racing.

From:  The Clinic Cumulative Continuum—FROM COACHES LIKE YOU

Another line from Marvin Rathke, Seven Lakes High School, Katy, Texas

“At Seven Lakes we fell we are truly making a difference with kids and this clinic really filled in some holes what will allow us to make a greater difference in not only the training and race preparation for our  kids, but with our logbook sessions and helping our kids be better people.  You always want is best for the kids you coach and we have it here with the Paavo.”

Racing From Training #5 (RFT)

Paavo Clinics—Where Coaches Go To Become Better

Current Notices

1. Another Welcome to 2009-2010 Paavo Clinic Season—We are on a continual restructuring of the web site and the response process.  Thanks for your patience for those who have responded recently.  Weekly and some daily updates will be the pattern for the clinic season.
2. The RFT Clinic Emailer will be sent once a week to your email.  The format is simple but direct as to what the Paavo Clinics are for a coach who has a sincere desire to become better.
3. The first look at the new clinic schedule is on the web at: http://thepaavos.com/clinic/schedule/sample-schedule
4. An Option:  Hosting a Paavo Clinic—currently contact Coach Sellers at: CoachSellers@thepaavos.com
5. The clinic is just as special as when started in 1987 as we are adding more cumulative presentations by Paavo connected coaches.

1. Soon will be more on clinic registrations and presentation schedules.  The basic presentation schedule is now posted.
2. New:  Coaches Corner on the web and the 2nd one is being added as I speak.—check it out for it is from coaches like you.
3. All RFTs are being posted in the RFT Web Archives.
4. NOTE THE DOWNLOADS—CLINIC BROCHURE AND CLINIC QUICK RETURN ENROLLMENT FORM.

Your Runners—Making A Difference, Best Training, & Best Coaching

***A Paavo Clinic Is For Those Who Attend.

From:  The Clinic Development  1987 is today, and today is 1987.    2009-2010 still has what the clinic had in 1987.  That is, finding the individual who wants to become better, train that runner to become better, and then become better with racing performance.   Yes, how fast a runner can race for how long before slowing down is still the axiom of the Paavo Coaching Clinics.   In 1987 there was just one coach who had a grasp on the clinic training.  1n 2009, there are many, and many more runners benefiting.

From:    The Clinic Manual

*** C5 Paavo Racing Basics

1. 1. And C5-1 Racing Landmarks

Racing and training are connected directly.  The number one issue is:  “As a coach, do you know exactly why every runner races the way they did on race day because of their training recall?  And/or as a coach, do know exactly what each runner can recall from training as they step up to the starting line of each race?”

From:  The Clinic Cumulative Continuum—FROM COACHES LIKE YOU

A typical Paavo Story…    “We had a very talented team and we did not get it done.  We had used training techniques that coaches had used to train us and the latest and greatest new info coming out and I saw the same look in my athletes that I had felt when I ran.  It killed me to see it, for me to feel that way is one thing but to see their disillusioned faces made it clear we needed to do more.   Long story short we looked up and down and we liked the message that Paavo presented.  We found the closest clinic and left the kids with the grandparents and went on or first long trip to the Wisconsin Clinic”

Jason and Jane Arens, Crofton High School, Crofton, Nebraska

Racing From Training #4 (RFT)

Paavo Clinics—Where Coaches Go To Become Better

Current Notices

1. Another Welcome to 2009-2010 Paavo Clinic Season—We are on a continual restructuring of the web site and the response process.  Thanks for your patience for those who have responded recently.  Weekly and some daily updates will be the pattern for the clinic season.
2. The RFT Clinic Emailer will be sent once a week to your email.  The format is simple but direct as to what the Paavo Clinics are for a coach who has a sincere desire to become better.
3. The first look at the new clinic schedule is on the web at: http://thepaavos.com/clinic/schedule/sample-schedule
4. An Option:  Hosting a Paavo Clinic—currently contact Coach Sellers at: CoachSellers@thepaavos.com
5. The clinic is just as special as when started in 1987 as we are adding more cumulative presentations by Paavo connected coaches.

Soon will be more on clinic registrations and presentation schedules.  The basic presentation schedule is now posted.

1. New:  Coaches Corner on the web and the 2nd one is being added as I speak.—check it out for it is from coaches like you.
2. All RFTs are being posted in the RFT Web Archives

Your Runners—Making A Difference, Best Training, & Best Coaching

***A Paavo Clinic Is For Those Who Attend.

From:  The Clinic Development..…Amazing as one looks at where a simple key experience takes one.   Little did I know that wanting to be a basketball coach as a dream in elementary and high school would lead to coaching cross country & track in Elkhart Indiana in 1968.  Dreams determine the unforeseen destinies of life.  Stepping on the track at Brookdale Junior High as a 9th grade track coach was intended to be a temporary stop to get to basketball coaching.  The temporary word disappeared quicker than any imagination could see. So it is with the Paavo Clinics.   We are still doing what we started to find in 1968.  And I ask any coach reading this, do you want the key experience the Paavo has to offer?

Coach Sellers, hanging around for a little longer.

From:    The Clinic Manual

*** C3 Paavo Individual Training Process

And C3-2-C Daily Priorities of the Training Process

There are three:

1.      A runner is always getting ready for something.

2.      A runner will always have a place to go to excel

3.      A runner will always be headed somewhere with training connections and racing levels.

From:  The Clinic Cumulative Continuum—FROM COACHES LIKE YOU

A typical Paavo Story…    “I will just say this, and it just what the Paavo means to me. If you are looking for an easy way to train your athletes, if you are looking for “just workouts”, if you are looking for a clinic to just get away, then this clinic is not for you.  Now, if you really want to work at being the best coach you can be, if you truly want to make a difference in your runner’s lives, if you want to surround yourself with coaches who truly care for their runners, then the Paavo Clinic will be for you.  Each and every Paavo Clinic makes us better as coaches and leaders of our our youth who in many cases will not get this from anyone else.”   Marvin Rathke, Cross Country Coach, Seven Lakes High School, Katy, Texas.

Paavo Clinics—Where Coaches Go T o Become Better

Current Notices

1. Another Welcome to 2009-2010 Paavo Clinic Season—We are on a continual restructuring of the web site and the response process.  Thanks for your patience for those who have responded recently.  Weekly and some daily updates will be the pattern for the clinic season.
2. The RFT Clinic Emailer will be sent once a week to your email.  The format is simple but direct as to what the Paavo Clinics are for a coach who has a sincere desire to become better.
3. The first look at the new clinic schedule is on the web at: http://thepaavos.com/clinic/schedule/sample-schedule
4. An Option:  Hosting a Paavo Clinic—currently contact Coach Sellers at: CoachSellers@thepaavos.com
5. The clinic is just as special as when started in 1987 as we are adding more cumulative presentations by Paavo connected coaches.

Soon will be more on clinic registrations and presentation schedules.  The basic presentation schedule is now posted.

1. New:  Coaches Corner on the web—check it out for it is from coaches like you.
2. All  RFTs are being posted in the RFT Web Archives

Your Runners—Making A Difference, Best Training, & Best Coaching

***A Paavo Clinic Is For Those Who Attend.

From:  The Clinic Development

1987 is today, and today is 1987.  It is all about what Paul Karasch says that I am using often and that is:  “Success never goes out of style.”   The demands of racing are still the same as in 1987.  The demands of training are the same.  And yes, the demands of coaching are the same and more intensified than ever due to the society kids walk out of onto your practice fields of today.  The coach of today has to decide early with his/her approach to what really must be done to get today’s kids to do what the kids of the 1970s did the first day of training.  A perspective must be understood, or there is no real look at what a runner can still do with the clinic knowledge that was born out of the hard work and high level training of the runners of that past.   Yes, a coach must decide that doing things other coaches don’t do must be a priority.  Coach Sellers, hanging around for a little longer.

From:    The Clinic Manual

*** C4-1 Three Training Tools

And C4-1-The Basic Training Tools

There are three:

1. Oxygen Delivery as this is the first in every training progression.  It is basic and foundational.
2. Lactic Acid as LA evolves from the Oxygen Delivery Progression as to when, what, and how much.  Deliver oxygen to deliver speed.
3. Race Shocking is used from all previous races to use in the current race.  Training with oxygen and lactic acid will not fully be recalled to race without race shocking.

From:  The Clinic Cumulative Continuum—FROM COACHES LIKE YOU

Atypical Paavo Story…”Going from 3^rd at the regional  to 3^rd at State was just  a matter of knowing where to go to get the best out of kids on the right day.  Looking at the State Meet Results, it should be obvious that there is a process hat can be taught to coaches and kids that allow kids to have their best chance of running big at big meets.  It is about training and the beauty of the training progressions of the Paavo.  Why wouldn’t a coach jump on this?  Well, as with runners, it takes a certain type of coach to want to be the best by paying the price to be the best.”   Robert Ondrask, Giddings (TX) High School

Paavo Clinics—Where Coaches Go To Become Better

Current Notices

1. Another Welcome to 2009-2010 Paavo Clinic Season—We are on a continual restructuring of the web site and the response process.  Thanks for your patience for those who have responded recently.  Weekly and some daily updates will be the pattern for the clinic season.
2. The RFT Clinic Emailer will be sent once a week to your email.  The format is simple but direct as to what the Paavo Clinics are for a coach who has a sincere desire to become better.
3. The first look at the new clinic schedule is on the web at:  http://thepaavos.com/clinic/schedule/sample-schedule
4. An Option:  Hosting a Paavo Clinic—currently contact Coach Sellers at: CoachSellers@thepaavos.com
5. The clinic is just as special as when started in 1987 as we are adding more cumulative presentations by Paavo connected coaches.

Soon will be more on clinic registrations and presentation schedules.  The basic presentation schedule is now posted.

1. New: Coaches Corner on the web—check it out for it is from coaches like you.
2. #1 RFT is being posted in the RFT Web Archives

Your Runners—Making A Difference, Best Training, & Best Coaching

***A Paavo Clinic Is For Those Who Attend.

From:  The Clinic Development (May, 2008 Paavo Clinic Pipeline)

*** From A Coach Just Like You—By 1986 with the fortitude and intensity of Sam Froese, a runner from Elkhart Central (4^th in the 1987 1600 in Indiana), I knew I had the nugget that would lead to the gold mine as to training the individual as an individual who would then race the same way.   In 1987 the first clinic was offered and I thought many would jump at the chance.   Well, 14 showed up, but one is still coaching.  That coach, Rick Weinheimer, and both his teams just annexed the 2009 State Titles in Indiana.  The clinic is still at the same grass roots as in 1987….Coach Sellers, The Paavos.

From:    The Clinic Manual

*** C1-5  Training Philosophy

And C15-A State Meet Demands

These are set.  They are the race date, race distance, and the race times for high level performance.  Add known components to the demands and the stage is set to determine the very best.  Now, a training philosophy is directly related to the highest demand of excellence in the sport (Hence, State Meet Demands)

From:  The Clinic Cumulative Continuum—FROM COACHES LIKE YOU

“For me, the #1 and most important thing about attending the Paavo clinic goes back to the first one I attended.  It is a structure that provides a consistent and continual progression for training runners in order to get the most out of them, no matter their level.
BY THE WAY, my girls team finished 4th at our State meet this past weekend, and while I didn’t have anyone in the top 25 medal winners, I was the ONLY team in our division to have all 7 competing runners under 22 minutes, and we were only 21 points out of second place, which is close in XC as we all know.  This was our 3rd year in a row finishing in the top 4 teams in the State.”

Thanks again for everything Paavo!
Mark Sundberg
Head Coach
Lewisburg Green Dragon Cross Country
Lewisburg Area High School (PA)

Paavo Clinics—Where Coaches Go To Become Better

Current Notices

1. Welcome to 2009-2010 Paavo Clinic Season—We are on a continual restructuring of the web site and the response process.  Thanks for your patience for those who have responded recently.  Weekly and some daily updates will be the pattern for the clinic season.
2. Here is a link for the 2010 Clinic Response PDF Pipeline for this season—It is what you can become.
3. The RFT Clinic Emailer will be sent once a week to your email.  The format is simple but direct as to what the Paavo Clinics are for a coach who has a sincere desire to become better.
4. The first look at the new clinic schedule is available to the right.
5. An Option:  Hosting a Paavo Clinic—currently contact Coach Sellers at: CoachSellers@thepaavos.com
6. The clinic is just as special as when started in 1987.

Soon will be more on clinic registrations and presentation schedules.

Your Runners—Making A Difference, Best Training, & Best Coaching

***A Paavo Clinic Is For Those Who Attend.

From:  The Clinic Development (May, 2008 Paavo Clinic Pipeline)

*** From A Coach Just Like You—I just wanted to know as training was not consistently showing up in racing…….There had to be a way to train each runner specifically….and in the late 1970s and early 1980s I found it (The basics of what you see today in the clinics)….then I had to find a runner to do the work  that the training  demanded.

From:    The Clinic Manual (The inclusive supplement to the Paavo Clinics)

*** C3 Paavo Individual Training Process

And C3-1-B:  The training process is applying specific training to each individual in your program.  It follows the principle of fitting training to the individual runner, not the runner to training.  DON’T LOSE SIGHT OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

From:  The Clinic Cumulative Continuum—FROM COACHES LIKE YOU

“If a runner has a true desire to become better and then become the very best possible, then his/her coach must also have the same desire to become the very best.  Yes, everyday a coach must have a constancy of purpose of wanting to become better with what they say and then do with the runners they coach.”  Marsh Sellers, Paavo Coaching Clinics