Are you ready to maximize your Athletic Development? Athletic Training and Conditioning, Inc. strives to help develop you into the best YOU.

We put emphasis on an individualized assessment of how your body moves and performs. A customized program is then designed and implemented in an active small group-training environment or, if desired, in a one-on-one manner. Your program will be individually adjusted throughout your training season to maximize performance.

Athletes from all types of sports have trained with Athletic Training and Conditioning, Inc., whether it is for performance or injury prevention. Athletic Training and Conditioning, Inc. is ready to assist you in maximizing your potential.

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?

Athletic Training and Conditioning, Inc. is unique in that it is owned and staffed by Certified Athletic Trainers. An Athletic Trainer is a licensed health care provider who specializes in the evaluation, care, prevention, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. Our staff draws from 45 plus combined years of clinical experience treating athletic injuries to create and instruct athletic development / sports performance programs.

Athletic Training and Conditioning, Inc. uses a functional, whole body approach during the individualized assessment. This allows for the athlete’s entire movement pattern to be evaluated and planned for versus molding athletes into cookie cutter exercise programs.

Athletic Training and Conditioning, Inc. uses a long-term athletic development model progressing athletes through a structured sequence that builds upon the athlete’s previous performance gains. Our programs are designed, and are most effective, when performed in the proposed systematic sequence. This approach, which is used by the industry’s leading authorities, allows for ongoing career-based performance training. This is not to say that athletes will not benefit from carving out shorter training segments (i.e., six-week speed and agility segment). We feel the sequential and systematic approach of a long-term athletic development model will yield greater performance results.

The time of the year to implement a long-term athletic development program will depend on factors such as if the athlete participates in multiple sports throughout the year or plays a particular sport year-round. The staff at Athletic Training and Conditioning, Inc. can help the athlete create and implement a supervised plan.

INDIVIDUALIZED ASSESSMENT

Each athlete undergoes an individualized functional / whole body assessment to identify areas to address in order to maximize potential.

INDIVIDUALIZED PROGRAM

Each athlete receives an individualized program in order to maximize potential.

INDIVIDUALIZED PROGRESSION

Each athlete receives an individualized progression to his or her program in order to maximize potential.

OUR PROGRAMS ARE BASED ON A LONG TERM ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT MODEL

Athletes have different physical demands depending on their sport, position, competition level, etc. From a skill standpoint it does not make a lot of sense to expect a middle school athlete to be able to compete with a collegiate athlete. Physically, they are simply not the same.

Oftentimes we see performance programs being implemented using the same programming and progressions for all athletes regardless of individual ability. Using the same analogy as above, if we do not expect a middle school athlete to be able to compete with a collegiate athlete, why should we expect that same middle school athlete to be able to train like a collegiate athlete?

All of our programs address the following components of a long term athletic development process and are individually implemented based on the athlete’s current movement patterns:

ASSESSMENT / FOUNDATION

During this stage of the process, the athlete’s posture, balance, and movement patterns are evaluated. The remaining sequence is implemented based on the athlete’s current movement patterns.

MOBILITY / FUNCTIONAL FLEXIBILITY (CORRECTIVE EXERCISES)

Athletes need flexibility to assume positions necessary for efficient and effective athletic movements. During this stage, adaptive shortening from faulty movement patterns or inactivity is addressed.

STABILITY / CONTROL (CORRECTIVE EXERCISES)

Athletic movements are generally quick and ballistic in nature. This means energy from these movements must be generated, controlled, and redistributed in a split-second. If the athlete’s ability to use his or her stability control mechanism (i.e., “core”), is compromised or is sub-optimally working, then both inefficient force production and decreased force redistribution occurs throughout the rest of the body. In other words, performance is compromised as a result and injury likelihood increases.

LOAD

Once the previous stages have been addressed, external loads are imposed on the athlete’s body to facilitate extrinsic (away from the core) strength gains. Muscular endurance is also addressed during this stage.

SPEED AND AGILITY / KINETIC POWER

During this stage emphasis is placed on combining stability and strength into quicker, sport specific movement patterns.

IN-SEASON RECOVERY AND MAINTENANCE

It is here that the athlete maintains the performance gains he or she made throughout the above timeline. The use of recovery and maintenance strategies preserves the functional improvements while addressing the grind of in-season competitions.