Performance Enhancement Program

Performance Enhancement Program Overview

We must always remember that for athletes, their primary motive is to increase performance and to enhance movement, “the improvement of athleticism“. The Explosive Movement Program (PEP) is designed to improve one’s sports performance by improving their explosive power while incorporating speed, agility, and quickness. The ability to decelerate, redirect and accelerate is crucial to an athlete’s sports performance especially in hockey.

• Must be 12 years of age or older to register in this program.
• Program covers a 16 week period. ( May 11^th – August 28^th )
• Can sign up at anytime during the 16 week period.
• Can purchase any number of sessions at anytime during the program
• Each session is 90 minutes.
• Maximum of 9 athletes per session.
• Scheduled times for training sessions.

Schedule

Focused Components

EXPLOSIVE ACCELERATION MOVEMENT – The ability to train for Explosive Power is best described as teaching the muscular system to develop maximum force over a brief period of time. Example of exercises includes the use of sled runs and band runs.

PLYOMETRIC TRAINING – Exercises that involve fast powerful movements to help increase speed, power, and strength with an emphasis on single leg exercises.

BALLISTIC TRAINING – represents an exercise where an object is released, which allows you to accelerate through the entire movement. An example of ballistic training would be: throwing a medicine ball that simulates a shooting motion in hockey.

SPEED AGILITY AND QUICKNESS TRAINING – A key focus of our training sessions is in the sandpit. The ability to overcome instability while performing multi-directional movement drills to improve first step quickness, balance, and agility plus the opportunity to increase one’s anaerobic thresholds while performing distance shuttle sprints in the sandpit.

Training in the sand requires you to exert a greater amount of ENERGY and an increased amount of MUSCULAR STRENGTH compared to training on solid ground. After training in the sand, level ground training will make you feel like you’re accelerating downhill!

• Sand Training strengthens the stabilizer muscles of the ankle, knees, and hips.
• Improves balance and agility
• Improves core and rotational strength
• Corrects structural imbalances
• Enhances aerobic, anaerobic and lactate threshold, Increasing caloric expenditure and mechanical work demands.