Summer Training 2024
Like Winter Training, but hotter!
Summer Training Plan
Registration Opens May 15!
The focus this summer session will include base training, functional strength training, and seminars on nutrition, sport psychology, video analysis, and more. Whisper’s Summer Training for elementary, middle school, high school and collegiate runners spans June 17 through August 19. See the Calendar for training schedule details. Here is the tentative plan:
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WHAT TO BRING: water, light snack (banana or other healthy option), and come ready to run (shirt, shorts, running shoes). Bring a towel and change of clothes on Wednesdays.
Registration
To register your child for Summer Training, complete the following steps:
Complete the Waiver Form before the first day of Summer Training.
Purchase one of the two options below.
Seeking Summer Training T-Shirt Sponsors
THANK YOU to our amazing annual sponsors!
sprint/Speed/Agility training
For the pure sprinters in track, speedsters on the diamond, or athletes seeking to improve their overall speed and agility, Whisper offers group conditioning for athletes of all sports, including baseball, softball, soccer or lacrosse, and obviously track and field. The training will aim to improve all-around athleticism, and ultimately your performance.
program highlights
The two most important factors in developing a runner through Whisper training is social wellness and program design. Connecting runners with other runners, cultivating a community of fun, acceptance, and engagement is paramount. The training itself offers a challenge-skill balance by meeting each runner where they are at and providing the right amount of volume and intensity, challenging them and help them develop.
Further highlights during the Summer Training session includes:
Gaining and sustaining friendships through meeting and running with runners from throughout the Vancouver-Portland area.
Pace groups for sprinters, middle distance, and distance groups of all abilities led by Pacers, who are local high school and college runners.
Sport Psychology curriculum highlighting a topic each week. Topics include Sports Medicine, Time Management, Visualization, Self-Talk, Performance Anxiety Management, Self-Confidence Enrichment, Nutrition, and more!
Cross-Training using a variety of functional movement based exercises to create a dynamic running body.
Aqua-jogging for continued cross-training, body therapy, and aerobic improvement.
Fun! The most important aspect of training, undoubtedly, is fun! The kids will learn how to train, how to run, they’ll learn about intervals, tempos, warm-ups, cool-downs, biomechanics, new levels of intensity of training, and they’ll reach levels of training they never imagined! Who wouldn’t have fun gaining fitness while learning about yourself in a positive, safe, and stimulating environment?