Athletic Conditioning

Speed Training Camps

High Performance Training Camps

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Ultimate Hitting & Speed Agility Camp
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SPARQ: Speed Power Agility Reaction Quickness

Speed Training Camps

The training is designed to improve the athlete's change of direction,footwork, first step explosion and linear speed. Each workout includes a dynamic active warm up and post workout stretch to improve flexibility.

We offer Youth All Sport SPARQ rating generated at the beginning and conclusion of Camps to show the vast improvements made.

Trainers Include:

BILL ACKERMAN
- National Strength Professionals Association and International Sports Science Association Certified Personal Trainer
- SPARQ Certifed Sports Conditioning Specialist
- Varsity Football Coach North Harford High School
- Member of 2002 West Virginia Wesleyan College Football Team Division II West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Champion

Held at: Bodystyles by Mel Group Exercise Facility in Forest Hill, Maryland
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High-Performance Sports Conditioning Camps

Beginner:
Developing the Sports Performance Foundation. The most important aspect of sports conditioning is Establishing a Solid Fitness Base. You will learn the basic sports performance factors on this level. They are, power, strength, speed, agility, coordination, quickness, flexibility, local muscular endurance, and cardiovascular aerobic capacity. We will also cover mobility and Core stability, Balance and functional performance.

Intermediate:
Incorporating Sport-Specific Skills Into Conditioning. This program incorporate specific skills into strength and conditioning to help athletes target specific performance requirements. This will help the trainer and coaches account for individual athletic idiosyncrasies. This sport-performance program ensures that the athlete can improve performance and also mitigates the likelihood of injury. In the process of formulating a comprehensive strength and conditioning program for a particular athlete we first began by determining the athlete's requirements, that is, assessing the athlete's strengths and weaknesses.

Advanced:
Training for Peak Performance. The only way to train for peak performance is to have a plan. An effective plan, which normally translates into better performance, strongly depends on predication. This refers to a particular phase of training. This provides many benefits to the athlete's quest to be the best her or she can be. First, it provides a better more effective way of arranging the annual plan, in which training loads and stress alter from phase to phase. This builds specific emphasis on volume (quantity) and intensity (quality, speed, and power) of training into each phase.

Camps will cover the following Sports Performance Factors:
- Basic Training Principles: Many principles govern physical conditioning programs. One important principle is that programs should be specific to the sport and should meet the individual needs of the athlete. Another principle is understanding of physical conditioning is the SAID principle, the principle of specific adaptations to imposed demands.
- Periodization: Periodized training involves planned variation in the intensity of exercises and in the volume of a workout.
- Performance Strategies: A performance strategy includes the attributes that the athlete brings to the competition (e.g., body mass, height, muscle fiber type, and anxiety levels.) Genetic inheritance, along with training, contributes to the status of the available strategies.
- Power: Power may be the most important factor in sport performance because the ability to produce force in a brief amount of time is vital to most sports skills, power plays a crucial role in all sports performance.
- Strength: The ability to produce maximal force in a classic performance ability of all athletes. Strength is vital to power development at higher levels of force and provides the physiological stimuli needed for collateral development of other systems such as connective tissue.
- Speed: Speed is forward, backward, and lateral positions in important to many sports. With stops and starts, speed merges into the concept of agility. Speed is a vital attribute of strategy in many sports. Speed give the athlete a pure advantage in the competition.
- Agility: Agility is a total-body phenomenon specific to the sports skill. The ability to stop and change direction quickly is an obvious example of a physical characteristic that provides a vital translation of speed in almost all sports. Therefore, training agility using the implement may be vital for optimal transfer of the attribute to the actual sport competition.
- Coordination: Coordination is crucial in the hand-eye relationship needed in sorts such as golf or baseball. Coordination can reflect how well joints manage the muscular firing patterns between or among them. It also indicate how well the athlete fires his or her motor-unit pattern for muscular force.
- Quickness: Quickness involves reaction time and movement time in response to a specific stimulus or set of stimuli. The reaction to the stimuli within the sport context is the first cue needed for success.
- Flexibility: Flexibility is important for athletic performance. Internal resistance within a joint may limit movement, and improving flexibility will increase the mobility of a joint. Flexibility chronically increases the elasticity of muscle tissue and my contribute to increased athletic performance.
- Local Muscular Endurance: Local muscular endurance has been defined as the ability to perform repeated muscular actions. Over 80 percent of competitive sports are dominated by anaerobic function, the ability to reproduce athletic movements at a relatively high percentage of maximal power output throughout a competition has become even important. Thus, training for local muscular endurance is an important aspect of elite training programs (Kraemer 1997).
- Cardiovascular Aerobic Capacity and Endurance: Enhancement of the cardiovascular system increases the overall physiological junction of the athlete. Cardiovascular conditioning is typically evaluated by the amount of oxygen that can be consumed-maximal oxygen consumption-or the efficiency of its use (e.g., running economy) during exercise. The cardiovascular system deliver oxygen and nutrients, removal of carbon dioxide and metabolic byproducts from muscle and other tissues, transportation of compounds to the liver and other organs, assistance in regulation of body temperature, and transportation of hormones to their target tissues in the body.

Reference:2001 Human Kinetics