Body Fusion Sports Performance
Our program is customized for the individualized goals of each athlete. We utilize our integrated clinical team’s years of experience in the strength and conditioning, chiropractic and physical rehabilitation fields. With the fusion of these disciplines, we have developed a comprehensive program guaranteed to progress athletes to a higher level. The detailed, results-based program progresses you through six qualities of athleticism: flexibility, stability/balance, strength, power, speed and agility and anaerobic/aerobic conditioning. This intensive program promotes hard work and functional exercise biomechanics to improve your performance in sports while reducing risk of sports related injuries. On average, an athlete will progress through all phases of the first round in no less than 14 weeks. The speed of progression through the program is dependent on your performance capabilities and safe readiness to transition and graduate. You are constantly building on the fundamentals and at times will be re-introduced to specific stability and balance training to further enhance your development and avoid injury.
Mandatory Assesement
Our sports performance program starts with an orthopedic assessment and QFCE (Quantitative Functional Capacity Evaluation). Since most athletes have a history of injury, it is essential to evaluate each athlete. The assessments objectively measure range of motion, flexibility, strength, postural analysis and joint integrity. This assessment helps us objectively quantify weakness, instability and imbalances that will be safely addressed during all progressions of your program.
Testing
After the assessment, your next step is Athletic testing. On the athlete’s second visit, athletes will be tested in the vertical jump, standing broad jump, 10 yard dash, 40 yard dash, pro agility drill, chin-ups, and medicine ball throw. This gives us a baseline to measure progress in the program. The athlete will be retested in the eighth week and every six weeks thereafter.
Fundamental Classes (1-2 weeks)
Before new members start the progressions in their individualized program, they must complete and pass fundamental functional exercise classes. These classes instruct the athlete on proper mechanics of functional exercises used in our program. The skills learned in these classes allow for transition into our group classes.
All athletes have different skill levels; however we start everyone with single plane motions and progress to multi-planar movements incorporating a combination of lateral and twisting movements. The speed of each one-hour class will chisel and firm your arms, shoulders, legs and butt while focusing on your core - the center of your strength. This calorie-burning class works with resistance bands, core balls, plyometrics steps and boxes, and free weights. Balance and flexibility exercises at the end will cool you down and increase your range of movement for sports.
Flexibility
Every session starts with dynamic stretching. Dynamic stretching will raise body temperature, lubricate joints and prepare the nervous system for activity. This helps the athlete establish proper length-tension relationships in joints and soft tissues. Static stretching is used after the workout for therapeutic muscles lengthening since the muscle are already warmed and fatigued. This approach helps prevent injury and ensure long term success.
Stability (1-2 weeks)
The first tier of the performance program implements functional exercise progressions designed to develop the athlete’s smaller, often overlooked stability muscles. Our years of experience in physical rehabilitation have taught us how vital the balance between the larger prime mover and stability muscles are to injury prevention and optimal performance. Stability of the core, gluts, rotator cuff, deep spinal and neck muscles are the foundation from which strength and power will explode.
Strengh (minimal 4 weeks)
After we build a solid framework, it is time to develop more force output during the goal activity. Strength training is the foundation on which we build our performance enhancement program. This allows fast twitch fibers to contract faster with greater force. Strength training also develops the capability to deal with the added stress of rapid concentric and eccentric loading as power training becomes the emphasis. Rest intervals and weight amounts will increase while rep counts will decrease. Strength training will focus on both full body and individual muscle groups depending on athlete’s primary sport and functional needs.
Power (minimal 3 weeks)
After developing flexibility, stability, and strength it is time to safely develop power. Power is the most sought after quality in sports performance and the most fun to train. Power, by definition, determines how quickly you can move a force over a distance. Explosive Olympic lifts such as the snatch, the clean and jerk, sprinting, plyometrics and medicine balls are a great example of speed-strength, which is known as power.
Speed and Agility (minimal 2 weeks)
Speed and agility are crucial in most sports. Our team understands the importance of teaching proper sprint mechanics and efficient lateral movement patterns necessary to reach one’s potential. Athletes will be challenged in different agility speed drills to learn optimal start position, change-of-direction, proper lateral movement mechanics, touch and finish techniques.
Anaerobic/Aerobic Conditioning (minimal 2 weeks)
We understand that development of the cardiovascular system for most sporting activities is most efficiently done utilizing interval training. Interval training mixes bouts of work and rest in timed intervals. We can control the dominant metabolic pathway (anaerobic/aerobic) condition by varying the duration of work and rest intervals and number of repetitions.
We implement several modalities such as medicine balls, bikes, running, Plyometric boxes, kettlebells, as well as varying intensity weightlifting to develop superior cardiovascular fitness. This approach spares muscle wasting and strength loss associated with excessive aerobic activity.