Strength & Conditioning For Basketball Athletes
As the start of a new school year approaches, we are seeing an increasing number of basketball athletes enrolling in our performance training programs to prepare for the upcoming season. We thought it would be a good time to share how we approach training these athletes and what considerations we take when designing their programs. We are proud to work with these athletes and respect the commitment they make to improve themselves and add value to their teams by working hard and grinding with us in the off-season.
Read full blogSports Performance Training Unwrapped By Aaron Bonaccorsy, CSCS, CSPS, FRCms
What exactly is Sports Performance Training?
The easiest way to explain sports performance training is: training to increase an athletes effective range. An athletes effective range is the amount of area around an athlete that he or she can control. If you think about a young athlete (like a 4-7 year-old), they can barely control their own body, let alone any area outside of it. Therefore, their effective range is zero, or just their body.
Read full blogFast Feet Friday – Speed Training Tips – Negative Foot Speed
Nov 24th 2017How fast can you get your foot back on the ground???
Today we are talking about the downward (negative) speed of your foot at the ground during your sprint stride. Often when we think about running speed we only focus on how fast we flex our hips (pump our knees), but that neglects a huuugeee component of our speed!
Check out the video below to see just a few of the drills we use to develop this important phase of the stride cycle.
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