Start getting core stronger before training

Hi Everyone,

I have not been writing on this Blog for a while. Now I feel it is time to do so.
I want to start explain the importance to have a good core.
From many years of training on a high performance level, I have noticed that if you want to be able to train well, you have to work your core first. If you have a functional stable core, you can have a bigger chance not to get injured. When I have been injured during skating season the physio always would check if my lower core was strong enough. I trained up my core to a good level and my injures reduced quick. If you want to start slow with training small details as training your core 5-10 min a day can make a huge change.

I have thought about smart ways to train your core and one good tool is a FlowIn that you can buy through me and get a 10% discount. They are really good for stabilize you core and you start slow with few sets and repetition. You can do many exercises on it. Use discount code: RANYA10.
Visit this website to buy one:
https://www.flowin.com/

End of 2015/2016

Hi everyone,

I have not been writing alot on my blog because most of my information as been put on my offical facebook page. I am improving less problems with my old injury and it is important to be patient.

Soon I will start the new training season and I cant wait. It will be hard, sweaty and the most important thing alot of fun at the same time.

I want to thank my parents and friends for being always by my side through good and bad times.

It is time to start the season 2015/2016

Hi Everyone,

I am now this weekend starting my competition of the season.

First Elite competition in Sherbrooke this weekend, next week WC 1 Montreal and the week after that WC 2 Toronto.

Looking forward competing again and see how far I can get on these first competitions for the season.:)

I will closer to the competition put up a link how to follow the WC 1-2. Either here or on my facebook: Ranya Ezzi

Changed club this year!:)

Hi everyone,

Alot has happend this year. I have change club in Sweden.
I am skating for Malmö City Skaters and the members was welcoming me with a positive attitude that I like and I am now missing time with them during Friday Night Skate that is happening back in Malmö all summer.
It is an event when you inline around Malmö city and is a way of just having fun with others who likes to inline.
This photo was taking last year at one of the friday night skate. Here I am with my friend Laura who is one of the member in Malmö City Skaters.

New place to skate!

Hi Everyone,

I am currently skating in Montreal where I am going to train towards Olympics 2018.
A part from skating full time, this fall I will be a student at Universities in Sweden, studying online courses. It will be a bizzy season for me but I am looking forward to it.
I like the new training group and after years of problems with my injury from 2010 I am seeing the results:) Sometimes you have to believe in what you feel is right and focus on the positive thing through tough journeys:)

You can help support my skating career on this blog by clicking on donate and follow instructions.

I hope you all had a great summer!

From now on you can follow my facebook page from this blog.

/Ranya

Summer time

Hi Everyone,

I am training home all summer and it feels good!
The injuries that has been with me for too long, I can barely feel.
It is good that I from day one when I got injured, decided to fight to get back and train normal. The last 2 summers has been stressful because I had to perform early in the seasons, and that the injury was still hard to handle. Now I can feel small tightness in muscles but no injuries around those areas.

So I am looking forward to the ice season, just because I will be less stressed in the body:)

Ranya

Facebook

Hi there everyone,
As you can see I have embedded post from Facebook, I have had it now for 2 weeks and I will be more active there than I have been here. I will as much as I can embed as much from facebook as possible:)

Training is going better and better. It has been more than 2 years since I started skating from my big injury, and it takes sometime to get the body to handle the training load without getting small injuries along the ways. The good news is that I see positive results, steps and it will be good!:) You just have to believe that it is possible and that it actually takes years not months to feel good again after everything that happend. As long as you are prepared for that, anything can be possible:)

/Ranya

Training in the sun!

Hi Everyone,

Here is Sweden we have getting really good weather I have been out with my old inlines. It was a lot of fun:)
I am excited that it is easy to be out, now when the weather is nice and warm.

Looking forward to summer training and planing for the next season.

/Ranya

New season and new goals!

Hi Everyone,

I had a ruff last season with an advanced flu before the Olympic qualifier and some small injury in my foot around chrismas time, but that does not stopp me from continuing 4 more years of working towards my goal!:)

Next Olympics is in South Korea and now I have 4 hole years to prepare what I tried to do last olympics, when I had only 2 years of preparing for it, after a long injury.

I will change around the blogg and I am looking forward to these years!:)

/Ranya

Kolomna Russia

Hi Everyone,

I am tomorrow skating the 1500m and 500m, it is going to be a long day!

It is still the qulaification of the olympics...
You can follow the race/results on: www.isu.org

/Ranya

First Olympic qualifying week...

Hi Everyone,

I finally have internet in Italy..!

I raced friday the 1500m and 500m. I got through the first round on the 1500m and was overall placed 37...
500m I did not go through I got 3rd in the race...

On the 1000m was not good. I got last in the race just too tierd in my legs of this first qualifying week. I hope things will turn around...

I know I am stronger and just have to skate the best I can, I have done that and will continue with that in russia next week.
There is still 1 week to go of the olympic qualifications. And I cant wait for next week in Kolomna Russia.

/Ranya

Home alittle

Hi Everyone,

I am home alittle before leaving for 4-5th World Cup and the first week is in Turino Italy second weeks will be in Kolomna Russia of the Olympic Qualification.
It always nice to be home but jetlegs are never fun...
These two weeks will be important in order to qualify to the Olympics and I am looking forward to it.

/Ranya

Better and better

Hi Everyone,

I finally feel healthy and strong again, after this long and complicated flu. It is easy to forgett how much you can do in one day when your not sick:)

I am here now in Salt lake city and I am enjoying training here. I see the mountains everyday from the house I am staying at and I like that the sun is shinning as it would be a nice sommer day in Sweden.

I will be here alittle time more before I get home and prepare a short time before my qualifying olympic world cups.

To be in Salt lake before these important world cups is good I get to just focus on my trianing..

/Ranya

World Cup 1-2 and training camp Salt lake city

Hi everyone!

I wanted to write about my racing in Shanghai, China. But I forgott that when you are in China you cant use Blog, Facebook, ect.

My racing started really good in Shanghai on the 1500m I got through the round and I was going to skate the Saturday quaterfinals. But the night before thursday racing I was already getting sick and I did not sleep alot that night. My 500m on thursday did not go very well because I did not have more energi that day. Friday 1000m was hard because I was getting more sick and I new I had to save my self for the 1500m next day.
I skated the saturday and to be soo sick I still manage to be with the other girls and in to the finish line I was last but right behind.. That is very positive.

So after that I got more fever and more sick and it was horrible. I left Shanghai to get to seoul and I thought I have just a cold, but I found out in Seoul, South Korea that I had the flu and one that is not easy to get off...

I stayed in Seoul the hole World Cup week without getting in to the ice rink..
I got home for 1,5 day to sort out some things, and after I flue to Salt lake city to train here before the olympic qualifying. I am still recovering from my flu, but I have started to train both ice and off ice.
It is high altitude and I am alot jetlegd, so I am working on drinking alot of water and try to get to sleep on the right time.

The flu was not good but I will work hard when I am fully recoverd:)!

In the picture is the arena in Shanghai

/Ranya

Season is comming soon...

Hi Everyone,

The Competition season is almost here.
Right now I focus on training, I wont go to University this fall. Because I want to  focus on the Olympic Qualifying event that is this fall.
3,5 week to go until I skate my first World Cup of the season...

Ranya

Radio!:)

Hi Everyone,

I am finally on ice at home, and I must say right now I don't want to skate anywhere else... It is really nice ice!

Last friday I was at a local radio station. Below you can listen to it but it is in swedish:)

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=2576&grupp=18437&artikel=5613498#srcomments

Weekend was fun:)

Hi Everyone,

I had a good weekend. On friday evening I was inlining with Malmö Night Skate.
Some fridays in the summer there is a lot of people who will inline together in town. We inline slow so everyone can come along. It does not cost any thing and you meet a lot of fun people:) I was helping out as "blocker" who will stop traffic with the police, so that we don't have anyone driving on the lane we are inlining on. I saw this kind of event first time in Paris about 10 years ago:).
But they were going really fast in the streets of Paris.

Training is going as usual and that is my focus and has been all summer. I did not find a job this summer:(.

I would like to remind everyone that, you can donate money to support my way to Sochi. I would like to get on camps where I can focus on just training and getting ready for the qualifying olympics. On the right side of the blog I explain more about the donation. You can ask question on the comments under this text.

Another week mostly off ice...

Hi Everyone,

I have very few ice practise in the week right now, I cant wait to be on the ice more!!! We have eight ice rinks in Malmö. But in the summer most of them are closed down. Right now we have one that is open, it is not one of the two ice rinks I normally train on, but the most important thing is to be on ice. I really want to get back on my normal arena!

In the picture above is me doing what is called "dry skate" which means you train off ice the straight away technique as you would do on ice.

When it comes to barefoot shoes, there are now a lot of different kinds. And you just have to try some to find the one you feel good in.:) The barefoot shoes in this picture I like specially when I do skating exercise, and I have also find out that they are nice to run in too.

Summer training with my new vivobarefoot shoes

Hi Everyone,

I am at the moment training at home. A lot of training in front of me and I like it:)

I would like to write about the shoes I have now. Barefoot shoes... I started walking with my first pair already in December last year and gradually running. It takes some time to train a different running technique, which is the main focus for me. You feel everything when you walk or run in them. If it is concrete or sand or stones.. I feel that I have a better feeling underneath when I train specially when I do skating exercises, what I mean is that I need to use more muscles then before and work more on my balance. If I walk in regular shoes I feel like I am walking in bad high heels..
I have now 4 pairs of barefoot shoes...

Below you see my latest pair of Vivobarefoot..

 Here I am warming up in my light shoes:)

Swedish Olympic Camp

Hi Everyone,

Last week I was little outside of Stockholm on a kick off for the Olympics, that will be held next year 2014 in February. We where doing fitting for the Olympic clothes and we got our photos taken and other preparation if you make it to the Olympics. It is a lot to do before the Qualifying Olympic World Cups that will in November be in Torino, Italy and Moscow, Russia.
A sport journalist from the local newspaper in Malmö, wrote about me being at the event on their blog. You can get to the blog on the link below:

http://blogg.sydsvenskan.se/horisontmalmo/2013/05/07/olympiern-ezzi-vill-hjalpa-redhawks/

As we don't have ice for 11 weeks back home in Malmö, I have to go a broad. I will soon train somewhere else to get the ice time that is important in the summer. It will be a lot of traveling time again, as it was before my injury. It is fun and I am looking forward to a interesting season!:)

I did my last exam in april at the University and I am taking 1 year off school to just focus on the Olympics. I have around 2 more years part time at the University before my bachelor degree is done:)

If you can and want to, please sponsor my way to the Olympics in Sochi.
I need to be on ice as much as possible this summer and the only way is to go abroad.
On the right side of the blog you can click on the button "donate" at Paypal. It is safe and easy.
Please donate.

/Ranya:)