Workshops

Safeguarding Children & Young People in Sport Workshop

Athletics NI often run a Free Safeguarding Children and Young People in Sport Workshop at the Mary Peters Track.

This course is an introduction to safeguarding for all club personnel (Coaches, Officials, Committee Members, Parents & Designated Safeguarding/Welfare Officers) who wish to make their club a safe environment for Children to develop. 

This course is a prerequisite to the Designated Safeguarding Children’s Officer Training and so anyone within the Club who wishes to become the Children’s Welfare Officer must attend this workshop before moving on to the more intense training. All clubs must be working towards having a specified and suitably trained person or persons within the club to deal with these issues and it is a necessity in achieving the Athletics NI Clubmark Accreditation to have a fully trained Designated Officer.

This is an insightful and enjoyable course which is highly recommended by Athletics NI to all Club personnel.

Functional Movement Screening Workshop

Course is free to coaches.  Once coaches have attended the sessions, FMS equipment can be borrowed from the Athletics Track to test athletes within your own club.

Functional Movement Screen and corresponding corrective exercises combine to create a cohesive core training program.  It is designed to provide education, research and innovation to sports medicine, athletic training and fitness professionals.  It can be used for athletic coaches working specifically with competitive athletes who will be applying their skills toward improving an athletes fitness goals.

It is important that athletes reach a stage where they are performing high-level exercises; however some are inefficient in their basic fundamental movements. Due to this, they create poor movement patterns and consequently dysfunction is retrained. FMS will help identify any poor movement patterns within athletes.
Functional movement screening consists of 7 tests which should take each athlete approximately 15 minutes to compete.

ANI Fundamental Workshop

The cost of the course will be £15 for athletics clubs and £20 for non athletics clubs which includes a resource booklet and Certificate.

This course will assist coaches working with young athletes in fundamental movements. If any coaches are interested in this workshop please download the application form and return to Vicki at the Athletics Office.

The Fundamental Movement Workshop is for coaches to learn how to strengthen an athlete through exercises on agility, balance and coordination. The coaches will learn how each movement should be performed and what to; look for and will receive a booklet of exercises which are progressive.

The majority of the workshop is practical based in that coaches will learn while performing exercises. The exercises can be used with athletes of all ages however we would like coaches to target the athletes on these exercises young to create a stronger base to move forward with training.

ANI Coaching Conference

100 coaches from throughout Northern Ireland and Ireland attended the ANI/UKA Coaching Conference at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown. Presentations are available for download.