Team Training

Align to accelerate!

Building a Successful Team

As a coach of today’s sports teams, success comes from more than just technically skilled players.  A superior team must be a strong, fast, and flexible, maintain an unyielding mental attitude and have a solid nutrition plan.  At the Center for Athletic Performance (CAP), we have train hundreds of athletes and Teams from New Jersey High Schools, AAU, Travel, and Rec programs for the last 10 years.

The Team Training Concept:

Nowadays, it’s not just about x’s and o’s if you want to be successful as a team. You need to have more of what it takes to succeed.  Those critical factors are the following: Team speed, strength, quickness, agility, reaction, power, nutrition, skills, mental and physical toughness! To illustrate this, CAP offers an affordable guaranteed successful Team Training Program.

With this in mind, as coaches you must realize your team’s areas of weakness and address them. With limited time factoring in to practice schedules and other activities, CAP can assist in preparing your team in many ways.  We offer Pre-Season, In-Season, and Off-Season Programs that will deliver a positive training experience that will improve team speed and strength in character.  Building a mentally tough team who has worked together toward a common goal cannot be under estimated!!

A Few Factors of TEAM Speed:

1. Speed is a Skill –

Yes.  It can be taught. For simplistic reasons, I will put agility, quickness, change of direction in this category as well.  Developing elite speed, or any speed for that matter, is a skill.  Coordinating the upper and lower body through the core takes coordination.  This is why the Olympic Sprinters practice technique of arm action, knee drive, acceleration, top-end speed, recovery etc.  Training your nervous system to repeat good technique takes practice to master the skill.  What position should your body be in when accelerating, decelerating, planting to go in another direction is often overlooked or not addressed at all.  These areas can be taught, learned and then expressed on the field of play.  CAP teaches these techniques to enhance your team’s ability to move better and increase their chance of success!

2. Speed comes from Strength –

A highly neglected area of training is called the Posterior Chain (glutes, hamstrings, low back).  This area, along with the core (abs/obliques/low back ), as I like to describe, is the engine of your body.  If the engine is strong and fast, your team has the potential to move with power and precision. If it is not, the team is not only going to perform inadequately, but also be at risk for injury. CAP teaches your team to perform exercises that will develop this area such as Squats, Romanian Deadlifts, Various Lunges, Sport-specific Step-Ups, Sled work etc. We also do Strongman Training that flat out builds powerful strength and dominating speed for your athletes.  This “warrior” type training will get your team excited about training more than just upper body and you will be moving ahead of your competition.

Hip Separation

3. Speed comes from Hip Flexibility –

Another neglected area and often misunderstood area of speed comes from flexibility of an athlete’s hips.  It is important to improve your Team’s hip separation for improved stride length and stride frequency. Maximizing a good strength and flexibility ratio of the Hip Flexors and the Glutes will enhance your team’s speed.  When you want to prepare as a team, it must be a well rounded program that is put into place.  Flexibility of the Hips in combination with a strong and stable core will develop better athletes period.

At CAP our Team Training Program will guarantee that your athletes will move better for your upcoming season. Don’t hesitate and call us today and help prepare your team!