Updated membership statement

The membership information for Middlesbrough AC (Mandale) on bluebeard has been updated

Contact details

My contact details have been updated

Information from our club

Please take your time to read this, please note when returning it will be Mon/ Wed first to see how things operate.

Mario Jumps

Drill 9: To give power in your legs try "Mario" jumps and the rest of these drills by British sprinter Zoe Clark

Resources page

Hi all, to help you the resources page has been reorganised, showing a list of links to articles.

Exercise for inside

Drill 6: 10 different animal walks

For all groups - Home Pentathlon 2020

Sportshall Athletics have released a home Pentathlon that the whole family can try including a scoring system. You can find the link to all the videos describing how it works and the events involved below, you can auto play all 7 videos or use the link here

Week 4

Drill 4: Try sprint star Shaunae Miller-Uibo and her Estonian decathlete husband Marcel Uibo dishing out handy tips for an indoor workout

Week 3

Drill 3: For older members of your families try the BBC 5 Podcast, 10 Today Physical activity for older people

Week 2 isolation drill

Drill 2: Try this, by Olympic Gold Medalist Matt Whitlock drill 2

Week 1 Physical activity our recommendation

Drill 1: Out in your garden, if you can, try this Ball relay

Physical activity our recommendation

Hi all, in these uncertain times all hunkered down in our homes it’s a good idea to keep active. One of the life coaches ive followed for many years is Joe Wicks, some of you might have seen recently his kids PE workouts on ITV.

Joe has an Utube channel which I recommend you subscribe to, he has posted videos all of your families can follow.

Rumour has it a TV program headed by Joe will shortly be airing on one of the 5 terrestrial channels; keep tuned in for further news of that.

Mean time all groups, I’m looking for you to all to keep fit.

Joe Wicks Utube channel

Yours in athletics, Blubeard

How to stay active while you're at home

Bluebeard will be posting drills you can do at home, the first one stair workouts 

Five Signs Of Overtraining

The demands placed on talented young athletes are greater than ever with more opportunities to train and compete. Having to balance demands from school, club, county, region and sometimes country. Here are five signs of overtraining. 

Long jump

Top 10 mistakes and what to do, check out the resource section.

RECIPE FOR A YOUNG ATHLETE’S FUTURE SUCCESS

Added to the Resources page, check it out!!!

Annual Club Membership

Dear parents.

Renewals are now overdue, group members need this to enter any competitions, the first coming up the Midlesbrough AC (Mandales) Charles Stewart at Middlesbrough Sports Village and under 11 Fantastic Four meetings, details can be found here.

Athletes need to have club membership to automatically get UK Athletics insurance in training as well as competitions.

A *Very* British Athletics Championships

The best of Britain's athletes are set to compete in the British Athletics Indoor Championships this weekend in Birmingham.

See if you can answer these very tricky, exceedingly British, athletics questions!

Step In Or Remain Silent When Coaching Children?

You don’t have to be talking to be coaching, sometimes making that conscious decision to say nothing is great coaching.

Coaches and sports parents need to get comfortable with keeping quiet, keeping quiet can allow children the time and space to learn, whereas too much noise can distract.

Athlete conduct

As an offical i'm worried about the slipping standards in athletics in respect of others in competition and towards officials, please read the athletics code of conduct available in the resources section.