Athletic Strength Program

Athletic Strength Program Overview

For an athlete, the need for an ‘Athletic Strength Program’ is to develop strength with the intent of improving one’s sport skill, the ability to feel dominate physically and mentally on their playing surface. From a parent’s point of view an ‘Athletic Strength Program’ it’s about injury prevention. The stronger the muscles are around a joint or vertebrae, the likeliness of an injury is less. This is especially true when playing a contact sport.

• Must be 12 years of age or older to register in this program.
• Program covers a 17 week period. ( May 5^th – August 29^th )
• Can sign up at anytime during the 17 week period.
• Each session is 90 minutes.
• Maximum of 8 athletes per session.
• Scheduled times for training sessions.

Schedule

Focused Components

TOTAL BODY – the brain thinks in terms of movement not individual isolated muscles. The key is to link your body together so you can get stronger, and more powerful, enabling you to become more skillful.

CORE STABILIZATION – without a strong core, athletes will not have the ability to efficiently absorb and transfer forces through their body. The core musculature should be strengthened through the execution of various movement patterns.

COMPLEX STRENGTH TRAINING – is best defined as a strength movement followed by a speed movement or skill. An example of complex training would be: performing a squat exercise, then doing box jumps, hurdle hopping, stair running etc.

SPORTS BALANCE – The ability to display strength in conditions of instability. The three phases of training to improve sports balance are; single leg balance, single leg strength and core stabilization. The more difficult and complex a movement is (ie skating), the more important balance becomes. For this reason, our program combines balance with stability and strength exercise, which transitions to improved strength on the ice.