What is sports performance training?

Sports Performance Training is an approach to training that helps athletes achieve their desired performance goals. Utilizing integrated movement that focuses on functional strength and neuromuscular efficiency forces the athlete to work in all three planes of motion versus just one plane, which is commonly seen in traditional strength and conditioning programs.
An Integrated Sports Performance Program consists of flexibility, cardiorespiratory, core, balance, plyometric, speed, agility, and quickness training.

Sports performance training is best defined with three objectives:

1. Specialized - Designed to enhance pre-determined physical qualities and associated skills deemed necessary for increased success and reduced risk of occurrence/severity of injury in a certain athletic endeavor;
2. Progressive - Training is scheduled in a manner as to produce the optimal results over time with minimal risk of injury; and
3. Transferable - All training is a means to an end to promote high-levels of sports performance excellence in all capacities and optimal transfer from specialized and simulated exercises to that particular sport.

Collectively, these descriptors encompass a wide array of exclusive applications that, when integrated effectively into an ecceletic system, can optimize an athlete's raw abilities and sport-specific skills - thereby giving them a competitive advantage to be successful.

Sports performance training is a targeted approach to training focused on your sport of choice. Performance training is functional in nature and requires a solid foundation before introducing skill to the equation.

Sports performance training is training designed specifically to increase performance and minimize injury for general sports performance as well as specialized sports performance. Sports performance training is different from fitness and bodybuilding training in that the end goal is not to look better or have better over all health, but to improve athletic performance specifically. Generalized sports performance training focuses on improving generalized skills like muscular strength, core strength, balance, stability, coordination, hip, ankle, and shoulder mobility and stabilzation, and improved motor skills or the ability to move with skill. Specialized sports performance training focuses on getting an athlete ready for the demands of a specific sport and is much more narrow in focus. For example a discuss thrower must train to develop lots of power and strength to throw a discuss in a rotational motion. The ability to run long distance or having high amounts of muscular endurance or aerobic fitness is not only not needed it can actually hamper performance for a discuss thrower. For a soccer player however an emphasis on aerobic fitness, plus the ability to change direction while running at speed is most important. Being very strong but with no endurance would hamper soccer performance. For both examples no attention is paid to how well the athlete looks with their shirt off or in a bikini. The sole function is training for performance, and for each sport different types of "fitness" are needed.