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Coach Cathy Barry
- Dec 6, 2020
- 3 min
Coach Cathy Barry - An Interview with BACD
Coach Cathy Barry - Head Coach and CEO Eclipse Track & Field Club is a more multifaceted sports performance business dedicated to help athletes of any age share in the pursuit of excellence in all aspects of Track and Field, Running, Athletic Conditioning and Fitness, Team and Speed Development Training. We aim to build the leaders of tomorrow and to help athletes exceed to a newer higher level of success. Our commitment is to provide the best training, knowledge and experien
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Coach Cathy Barry
- Nov 12, 2019
- 4 min
When The Fitness Circus takes over the SAF Stage
Just over three weeks ago in Gatineau Quebec, 7 athletes from across Ontario all belonging to Steve’s Fitness Circus located in Bowmanville, competed in the SAF (Serious About Fitness) Fall Spectacular. Steve’s Fitness Circus – (so called due to the nature of the continuous controllable chaos that goes on with managing multiple athletes all at once) started about 14 years ago with training fitness competitors. Out of the 225 athletes that joined his group over the years, on
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Coach Cathy Barry
- Oct 30, 2019
- 8 min
My First Fitness Competition
Insight into My first Fitness Model Competition: Pre-Conceived Ideas: Just because you see something on TV, read about it online doesn't always mean it's always true. Information about Fitness is everywhere—and it can be quite complicated to determine what is fact and what is fiction. Women and strength training have not always been a popular combination, although I suspect and believe wholeheartedly that this trend is definitely shifting in the right direction. However, som
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Coach Cathy Barry
- Jun 17, 2019
- 6 min
Recovery by Cindy Ofili
I came across this amazing article on Spikes https://spikes.iaaf.org/post/cindy-ofili-recovery I thought it was a well written and well thought out blog that deserves sharing. It's a story of perseverance after injury, patience and the will to keep on going because of our passion for the sport. It's a story of Recovery. Going into the race, there was a voice in my head: Cindy, don’t do it. The week before, I had run at a street meet in Manchester where I felt a twinge in my
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Coach Cathy Barry
- Jun 3, 2019
- 4 min
The importance Women Coaches in Sports
Why Women Coaches matter in
Sport
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Coach Cathy Barry
- Feb 23, 2019
- 5 min
The Benefits of Cross Training for Your Sport.
Written by Coach Cathy - Head Coach of the Eclipse Track and Field Club. Too often as parents or coaches and even as athletes, we feel that our kids need to specialize way too young. We feel that the only way for our kids to excel in the sport they are in is to do way more of that sport. While specialization has its benefits down the road, it can also lead to our worst fears as parents - that kids will loose interest in the sport because that's all they have ever known. L
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Coach Cathy Barry
- Feb 6, 2019
- 4 min
Performance Anxiety - A Silent Killer
Written by Coach Cathy - Head Coach of the Eclipse Track and Field Club. Performance anxiety in our youth today is very real. The problem with performance anxiety is when it causes athlete to disconnect from the sport they once really enjoyed. Let’s face it, anxiety is in all of us and its part of our DNA and emotional character. It's how we process anxiety that makes us all a little different. Anxiety has long been regarded as an "unpleasant" feeling, and anyone suffering fr
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