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Our experienced staff can provide individuals or teams with a year round conditioning program. Our conditioning programs follow a sport specific periodization approach to optimize your strength, power, speed, endurance and sport skills.

Functional training and sport specificity are the foundations of conditioning programs. We analyze the physical needs of your sport and your position and design an program specific to you.
Functional training means that we train the movements and muscles that you perform in your sport. Traditional strength programs were designed for body builders and muscle hypertrophy. While increased strength and size are often important they don't always transfer to increased performance or FUNCTIONAL STRENGTH.
For example, a tennis player spending his time in the gym performing bench presses, arm curls and triceps pressdowns will not transfer this extra work to increased power or endurance on his serves or groundstrokes. Our training programs are designed to improve the power and strength requirements for your sport by prescribing movement specific functional exercises.
OUR PROGRAMS CAN PREVENT INJURY
Your training programs will also incorporate the most advanced core, lumbo-pelvic and scapular (shoulder) stabilization regimes. These programs will provide a base for all your additional exercises, PREVENTING INJURY and IMPROVING PERFORMANCE. | |

Besides strength and muscular power we must also train your energy systems.
In other words, the endurance and speed requirements for a specific sport and position.
We determine the energy requirements of your sport (i.e how much you sprint, rest or jog) and then design a periodized conditioing program. This type of conditioning will influence the following areas of your performance:
Sprint speed and agility: the burst of power from 1 to 20 meters.
Anaerobic power: peak muscular force at high speeds. (eg. vertical leap)
Anaerobic Capacity: the ability to perform repeated submaximal exertions i.e. 400 m sprint. Hockey shifts. **the most important energy system for the majority of sports.
Aerobic Capacity: long distance running, soccer (but soccer also requires the ability to sprint and recover)
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