Athletic Performance Enhancement

Athletic Performance
For serious or recreational athletes who want an advantage over the competition and to prevent injuries from occurring.

Run Faster, Jump Higher, Hit harder, Throw longer
With out conventional weight training methods or taking performance enhancement drugs

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Athletic Performance focuses on the following training:

• Developing Explosive Power with out excess pressure on ligaments and tendons
• Quick Firing rubber band like flexibility and Strength
• Running and Jumping technique
• Correction of muscle imbalances
• Fast Muscle recovery time after performances
• Injury Prevention
• Rehabilitation

How we develop specific work out plans for athletes?

Why are unique equipment works?

The originators of the training methods?

How we develop specific work out plans for athletes?

On the first exercise visit the doctor and therapist will evaluate the athlete's body as a whole. They will test flexibility, strength, balance, spinal alignment to see where imbalances are in your body. Once the doctor and therapist determine how your body is functioning as a unit we have a better understanding of what areas in your body need work to improve your athletic performance and keep you from being injured.

Why are unique equipment works?

1. Heightened Nervous system training

Main physiological improvements:

• Balance
• Coordination
• Spinal alignment
• Ankle and feet resiliency to injury

The first part of our training is to make the athlete a better athlete by properly training the nervous system to develop supreme balance and coordination.

Every athletic movement requires a great deal of communication between the brain and nervous system to make the movement occur. The more efficiently the nervous system and brain respond to one another the better and more refined athletic movements become. But how do we train the nervous system to become stronger, more alert, more efficient, and a better communication tool to the brain in order to improve athletic performance?

Research has shown one of the main ways to take the nervous system to a higher levels of functioning is through the use of instability exercises. For example having an athlete stand on a wobbly surface, which forces their nervous system to work extremely hard to maintain balance.

In our program surfaces are also continually upgraded to new levels of instability. When the unstable surface becomes too easy for an athlete we graduate them to a more unstable surface to make it more and more challenging on the nervous system. When the nervous system reaches new heights, stimulation, balance and coordination dramatically improve.

In all of the following training methods below we have the athlete on an unstable surface to continual challenge and connect all movements to the nervous system

2. Usable Stretching

• Flexibility
• Rapid muscle acceleration from joint areas
• Correction of muscle imbalances
• Injury prevention

The second part of our training is teaching the athlete how to stretch their joint muscles (ligaments, tendons, small muscles) to provide greater protection from injury and fire their muscles with greater acceleration and strength from a stretched position.

In order to achieve maximum stretching potential we use Pro-Bells (lightweight water filled red balls with handles about 3-6lbs of water weight). The weights are used by starting momentum into a stretched position one way and quickly trying to change direction and move it the other way. Stretching the muscle and exploding out of a stretched position trains the muscle to become like a quick firing rubber band (known as an eccentric to concentric contraction).

For instance when a tennis player bends his knees and stretches their muscles into a coiled position to serve this is the eccentric contraction. When they explode out of the stretched position to accelerate their body and arm into the ball, this is called the concentric contraction.

If we only train the major muscle groups and not the connective joint muscles we will not maximize the athlete’s true potential for power. The joint muscles are the root and core linking every major muscle group to athletic movements. We want to build the muscles from the core out to provide ultimate power to athletic movements and protection from injury. It would be like a tree having a week rooting system. What would happen to the tree over time? Would the tree be as strong as other trees?

Traditional stretching limitations
Traditional stretching is very good and we still do some of it in our training program but it does not train the muscle to explode from a stretched position. It only offers flexibility with minimal strength gains but nothing to train explosive muscle response from a stretched position.

3. Explosive Power Training

• Added Absolute Power in running, jumping, throwing, hitting, striking
• Less excess stress on ligaments, tendons, muscles
• Timing, Rhythm, and quick changes in direction in the major muscle groups (pictorials, quads, hamstrings, shoulders, etc.)
• Long lasting energy in extended athletic performances

The Explosive Power training is a similar concept to the Usable Stretching Routine (above) to explode the muscles from an eccentric to concentric contraction. However, in the usable stretch routine we work on developing quick explosive flexibility movements deep down in the core muscles of every joint.

In contrast the Explosive Power training focuses primarily on the development of the major muscle groups with high resistance training . As we mentioned before we want to develop the core muscles at every joint out to the major muscle groups for ultimate power in athletic movements.

Our program is very unique in how we train the explosive power in the major muscle areas. We do not use traditional weight training but use machines that are proven to be safer, put less stress on the body, and provide better athletic gains than weights.

4. Technique of movements

• Proper running and jumping mechanics
• Improvements of footwork coordination
• Adding to overall speed and agility

All of the following prior 3 training routines will make the athlete run and jump higher but one of the final factors to their ability is to have the proper footwork running and jumping techniques. In the 4th and final training methods we do footwork and jumping drills to teach them the correct movement techniques to make them even more efficient athletes.

The originator of the training methods

Marv Marinovich