Author: Emidio Orfanelli
Emidio Orfanelli
Emidio Orfanelli is FIDAL “Trainer specialist of racewalking” since 2007, and currently he is head coach of the track and field club “Gruppo città di Genova running school”. For 12 years he was head coach of racewalking for FIDAL Liguria, and he has held the role of coach director from 2013 to 2016. In addition to the coaching activity he has been teaching about racewalking for FIDAL Liguria and the Swiss walking Federation.

Training programming for U16 and U18 walkers

3 January, 20185 January, 2018 by Emidio Orfanelli

Sorry, racewalking friends. Currently this page is available only in Italian. English language content will be available in the coming weeks.

Notes on the organization of training for young U16 walkers

2 January, 20185 January, 2018 by Emidio Orfanelli

Sorry, racewalking friends. Currently this page is available only in Italian. English language content will be available in the coming weeks.

Tips for starting racewalking with young athletes

1 January, 20184 February, 2018 by Emidio Orfanelli

In the start-up phase of the beginners, the first difficulties of the young walker must be considered: difficulty in assimilating the basic execution of the gesture feeling of physical discomfort, due to the commitment in a technical discipline such as walking, especially pains in the tibial musculature probable sensation of psychological discomfort due to the execution of an athletic gesture that could be subject to the unjustified teasing of other people, given its particularity a...