An Excerpt from an interview I did with Anna Tunniciffe, Olympic Champion in the Laser Radial and just last week crowned Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year.
You’ll find the rest over here (although you need to be a paid up subscriber to get access to it):
http://www.sailjuice.com/articles/tunnicliffe-training
SailJuice Interview with Anna Tunnicliffe (excerpt)
SailJuice: When you’re doing a coaching session, what routines do you put people through to really help them make some gains?
Anna: We try and emphasize the endurance part of Laser sailing and the fitness parts so we do interval training on the water, so we’ll do three minute hikes or two minute hikes and just try and focus on technique and posture for those two or three minutes and then take a little bit of a break and then do it again. So we really focus on that and then we also throw in endurance sailing where we’ll do say a pyramid of five minutes on one tack, four minutes on another, and then 3,2, 1, just so it gives you something to focus on – a time frame to focus on and know how hard you need to work for that. So a big focus is on the endurance side of sailing.
SailJuice: I just want to pick up on the pyramid thing, just to be clear. So everyone starts on starboard and sails for five minutes and then they tack and they sail on port for four minutes and then three on starboard, two on port and one on starboard. Is that how it works?
Anna: Yes.
SailJuice: OK. And I bet people are crying out for those minutes to tick over aren’t they?
Anna: Yeah, and we do that in training too and it’s mighty painful but it’s good because a beat is usually somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes so if you can do two of these pyramids in a practice it becomes a piece of cake when you get to the racecourse.
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