Nutrition: Updates to Bust Myths February 9, 2010, 6:30-7:30pm EST CEU: 0.1 Alicia Kendig, RD CSSD, will provide information to debunk some common nutritional myths concerning protein needs, combining foods, metabolic efficiency, and others.
Alicia combines her two true passions in life every day: Food and Sport. As a competitive swimmer for most of her life, her love of training, competition and wellness continued through college and now into her professional career. To her, sports nutrition is an interesting and fulfilling piece of every athlete’s puzzle.
Alicia holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition and a Master’s degree in Public Health Nutrition from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. A coaching internship at Carmichael Training Systems brought Alicia to Colorado Springs where she was the Head Sports Dietitian for over 4 years. During that time she achieved the honors of a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics, and has helped athletes of all ages, levels, and backgrounds achieve their performance goals by focusing on fuel for optimal performance. She has given numerous presentations to both coaching and athletic groups at the local, collegiate, elite, and national level. She is currently working with both the U.S. Olympic Committee to provide nutrition counseling to national level athletes, and is aiding the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in creating useful educational materials in both nutrition and supplement usage.
Preparing for the First Bike Race February 16, 2010 6:30-8:00pm EST CEU: 0.15 Kristen Dieffenbach of Mountains, Marathons and More, will be the presenter for this webinar geared to the cyclist heading out for his/her first bike race (ever). The webinar will go over some logistical and practical matters (like buying a racing license and not forgetting your helmet). The webinar will not focus on trainng. The webinar is free. Click to register. The webinar will be recorded and available through the USA Cycling website at a later date.
Laboratory and Field Testing Procedures February 23, 2010, 6:30-8:00pm EST CEU: 0.15
This webinar will consider laboratory-based methods for assessing the primary physiological determinants of cycling performance, i.e., LT, VO2max, anaerobic capacity, and neuromuscular power. Topics to be covered include the appropriate design and administration of such tests, how to interpret the data that they provide, and ways of utilizing this information to fine tune an athlete's training program. The intended audience for this lecture are coaches who provide such testing as a service or who coach athletes who may have such testing performed elsewhere (e.g., at a local university).
Andy Coggan, PhD, will be the presenter. He was a researcher in some classic cycling related studies while completing his doctorate at the University of Texas.
Ultra-endurance training March 24, 2010, 6:30 to 8:00pm EDT CEU: 0.15 Kristen Dieffenbach will present this webinar focused on training for events lasting longer than 6 hours such as 24 hr mountain bike races (individual or relay). Ultraendurance events offer special challenges beyond what is normally covered in USA Cycling coaching education clinics.
ARCHIVED WEBINARS The following webinars are now available for download for those who could not attend the live presentation or for those who just want a review. Only the free webinars are available; coaches who download the archived webinars will not earn continuing education units (CEUs), however. USA Cycling will add past recorded webinars when it gets around to it :)
Jet Lag Strategies for Travel to Western Europe Aired live: March 17, 2009 Handouts available.
Please note: The audio malfunctioned at the start of the webinar. Be patient; the sound kicks in about 90 seconds into the presentation.
USA Cycling Cyclocross Opportunities
Aired Live: August 24, 2009
Presenter: Marc Gullickson, USA Cycling Mountain Bike and Cyclocross Program Director
Warning/Reminder When you pay for the webinar at the USAC site, you will receive a pop up message or email as a receipt. In that message and/or email, there is a link to the GoToWebinar site. You must follow that link to register at the site. Your registration will be approved and an email will be generated with the instructions on how to login when the webinar time arrives.
Some people with AOL accounts have been getting a scrambled link to the GoToWebinar. Our crack IT staff is trying to figure out why this is the case. If you get such a scrambled link, please let Sam Callan know ASAP. Waiting until 10 minutes before the webinar is scheduled to begin may delay or keep you from getting into the webinar.
Please retain the follow up email from each webinar for continuing education units for coaching certification.
What is a webinar? A webinar is a web based seminar (get it?). Basically it is a cost effective method for offering interested parties educational seminars. When you log into the webinar, you will see whatever is on the presenter's screen. To hear the presenter speak, you will be able to listen over your computer or you can call into a telephone number. There is limited interactivity. The attendees can offer questions via a chat like function.
If you are using a phone line, you just need a stable phone connection be it a cell phone, land line or service such as Skype. You will be responsible for applicable toll charges.
The phone system is one way where the participant can hear the presenter(s), but the participant's phone is muted. To ask questions the participant uses the question function on the webinar.
The attendee should log into the webinar 10 or so minutes before the webinar is scheduled to begin. The attendee can call in just a minute or so before the webinar is scheduled to begin. Webinar Troubleshooting
All approved participants receive information on logging into the webinar at least an hour before the webinar; in fact, you will probably receive a couple of reminders.
Please be sure to input your email address properly when registering. Several times people have not gotten information because they make an error inputing their email addresses.
There seems to be a lot of confusion over the registration and payment processes for webinars. It is a two step process described in detail below that requires REGISTERING for the webinar at the respective link below, but also PAYING for the webinar through the MYUSACYCLING function of the USAC website. If BOTH parts are not completed by noon Mountain time on the day before the webinar, you will be denied access to the webinar. This is a hard time line.
Free webinars do not have a deadline for registering and you only need to register at the respective link. However, late registrants may not receive handouts before the webinar begins.
I am interested in one of the webinars, but I have a time conflict. Can I order a recording of the webinar? At this time, we do not offer the webinar except as a live "performance". We are working to make them available for people who cannot attend the live performance, but we have a few issues that need to be resolved first. Webinars offered for free by USA Cycling are often made available as a recording. Please note that only coaches "attending" the live broadcast will qualify for CEUs.
Who can attend a webinar? Webinars are open to anyone. If you are not a USAC member/license holder, you can still create an account at the USAC website. Only US residents can create a MYUSACYCLING account. If you are not a US resident, please contact the USAC Coaching Education manager for assistance in paying.
What is the cost for a webinar?
Webinars generally cost $25 ($20 for Level 1 coaches) for USA Cycling Certified Coaches, $35 for USA Cycling members and $50 for all others, except where noted. USA Cycling reserves the right to change the pricing structure or offer some webinars at a higher cost.
How to pay for the webinar?
Payment for the webinars can be made through the MYUSACYCLING function at the USA Cycling website. When you log in to the MYUSACYCLING function, you will see a heading for "USA Cycling Coaching Clinics" with a link under it "View Available Clinics". Click on the link and you will see webinars for which you are eligible. Select the webinar you wish to attend. Note: you can only select and pay for one at a time. To pay for more webinars, you must select and pay for each individually. Sorry for this inconvenience.
Generally, the deadline for payment is by noon Mountain time the day of the webinar. At times this deadline may be earlier depending on the start time and other scheduling issues.
If you pay but do not register as described below, you will not get into the webinar and there are no refunds for missed webinars. There are also no "rollovers" to other webinars. Webinar payments cannot be transferred to another person either.
What happens if I pay and cannot attend? There are no refunds for the webinars and payment cannot be transferred to another webinar unless USA Cycling cancels the webinar.
How do I register for the webinar? After payment, you must register at the GoToWebinar site by clicking on the hyperlink provided in the receipt for payment. Complete the registration form at the GoToWebinar site.
Once you have registered and paid, the organizer of the webinar will approve you to join the webinar. The GoToWebinar site will email you instructions for joining the webinar (and a couple of reminders) that include the URL and the teleconference phone number to call. You may not receive this email until the day before the webinar.
It is critical that you complete both steps before noon Mountain time on the day before the webinar. Registration for the free webinars is very simple. All you need to do is click on the hyperlink title of the webinar and register at the GoToWebinar site. You will be automatically and immediately approved. The GoToWebinar site will then email you instructions for logging on and the teleconference number and access code.
I paid for the webinar but did not receive an email for the registration at the GoToWebinar site. What do I do?
Contact Sam Callan as soon as possible for the link. If you have an AOL account, the hyperlink seems to get garbled. It may happen with other email providers as well.
Do I earn CEUs for attending USAC webinars? USA Cycling certified coaches will earn continuing education units (CEUs) for attending the webinars. Generally, USA Cycling provided webinars scheduled for one hour will be worth 0.15 CEU (free webinars will be at a slightly lower value of 0.1); a 1.5 hour webinar will be worth 0.20 CEU. Webinars not provided by USA Cycling will be assigned a CEU value on an individual basis.
An email receipt detailing the CEU value will be sent after the webinar to all webinar attendees. The email will serve as your documentation for the CEU credit. It is your responsibility to maintain the record of earned CEUs.
Registration and attendance is required to earn CEU credit.
Repeated topics are eligible for CEUs as long as the presenter(s) are different. Different presenters will offer different views on topics. If you attend the same webinar topic by the same presenter, you will only be able to count that webinar value once in a calendar year. For instance, if you attend webinar topic X by presenter Y in January and attend that same webinar by that same presenter in October, you can only count one of them. However, if you attend two (or more) webinars on the same topic by different presenters, each webinar will count for CEU credit. (Effective April 15, 2009)
The webinar format is easy and many coaches or practitioners are offering them. If you find a webinar that you are interested in, send a link for the webinar or a description to the Coaching Education manager. The Coaching Education manager will assign a CEU value (if any).
You might also want to get the webinar organizer to contact the Coaching Education manager to get pre-approved CEU value for the webinar.
I would like to receive emails about the webinars. Can you put me on an email list? USA Cycling offers a listserv for coaches through Googlegroups. To subscribe, use the box below. Only the group owner can post emails and all replies go to the group owner.
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