Sports Specific and Athletic Performance

HOW WE DO IT!

Structural Balance

Deducting a weakness is the most effective arsenal to improve athletic performance. This is what separates TFS from other, under qualified, personal trainers. Personalisation is key when designing a performance program for an athlete. Without assessing you are only guessing.

Do you want to leave your performance to chance.. NO?.. then keep reading.

With a detailed structural balance test we can target what muscle’s are weak and what muscle’s are strong, what muscle are causing you to receive pain in certain movements, what muscles are detrimental to your flexibility & Performance and what muscles are leaving you open for injury. Remember you are as only as strong as your weakest link! Here at TFS, all of our athletes are screened using a” structural balance” assessment. This system, pioneered by world-renowned strength and conditioning authority Charles Poliquin, allows us to test strength and function around all the major joints of the body. We can then assess, based on their relationship, which muscle groups may be weak, overly shortened, inactive, or overdeveloped in relation to their antagonistic or synergistic counterparts. This information allows for the design of a highly personalized, comprehensive training program, which forms the basis of our training system depending on the particular movement patterns of the sport.

By individually testing each athlete we can determine the approach of the training program and duration that will have to be undertaken to ensure the individual is structurally  strong, powerful, injury free and faster than their opponents.

WHAT WE DO ON INITIAL CONSULTATION

This consists of a health and fitness questionnaire where we learn not just the hard facts of your previous Sports Training experience, sports specific goals and medical history, but also seek to understand exactly what motivates you in the pursuit of on field success.

We also undertake an extensive body composition analysis whereby we calculate body fat percentages and take height and weight statistics so as to benchmark ongoing progress.

Structural, postural, and muscular balance testing

We find your weaknesses & strengths and how they can be addressed for a healthy, functional and injury free Sports Specific Training.

Developed by the one of the world’s best known physical therapists, Gray Cook, this consists of a functional movement screen with the following tests:

1) Deep Overhead Squat

2) Hurdle Step

3) In-Line Lunge

4) Active Straight Leg Raise

5) Seated Rotation

Flexibility:

Using methods of the modified Thomas test, we look at the lower extremities and active vs. passive ROM (Range of Motion). Testing movement through the internal and external rotators of the hip, Length of the rectus femoris and hip flexors, glute and medial and lateral heads of the hamstring.

Muscle fiber testing:

Are you fast twitch or slow twitch, how many repetitions are ideal for your body type? This is of particular importance when it comes to sports training for maximum athletic performance. Different muscle fibers (and their relevant training protocols) can be better suited for endurance work (slow twitch fibers) or speed and power work (fast twitch fibers).

We test you on several key major resistance exercises such as Bench Press, Chin up, Step up, and Scott Curl calculating your 1 repetition maximum load and then applying specific formulae to assist in calculating muscle fiber type and the structural balance of key supporting musculature such as the rotator cuff and vastus medialis. This is to ensure the long-term integrity of your body’s muscles and soft tissue, keeping you healthy and on the playing field, and not on the physio’s table!

STRUCTURING PROGRAM

Once we have deducted what areas we need to move forward in, we can develop a program that will improve.

1)    Speed /Agility/ Flexibility.

2)    Maximum Endurance/ Maximal Strength Composition

3)    Explosive Power and Dynamic movement

4)    Postural alignment

5)    Muscle imbalance correction and injury prevention

6)    Optimal Body Composition

7)    Nutrition Strategies for optimal performance

HAVE THE PEAK AND PHYSICAL ADVANTAGE

It’s no secret that young players, particularly those who are signed straight out of high school are often woefully unprepared – both physically and mentally – for the rigors of professional sport. Unfortunately Australia is about 10 years behind the USA and other such countries when it comes to the physical development of our young athletes. In fact, most of the time, a strength training program is more of an afterthought, introduced late into the athlete’s career when it’s too late to be of any use.
 
Training at TFS gives athlete’s a competitive advantage in knowing that they’ve worked harder and smarter than any of their counterparts in the lower grades. This not only makes them stand out physically when compared to their fellow competitors, but gives them added confidence in knowing that they’ve outworked their peers during the off-season and are now the best version of themselves that has ever existed.

Only a select few players will ever make it to the big leagues. We, however, strongly feel that we are in a position to set more players up for this long-term success by placing tremendous focus on off-season training and nutrition for the sake of their health and physical development.

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