This exercise is regarded by many strength coaches as being the best lower back, hamstring, and glute exercise. This is because it allows you to train all these muscles in unison. This is important because the muscles of the posterior chain are the same muscles responsible for running and jumping.
This is performed on a special bench invented by Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell Club. This exercise is also being use for rehabilitation purposes for those with back problems or herniated disks. This is because the bench decompresses the disks when the weights are in the midpoint position. To perform this exercise, there is a strap that wraps around your ankles or you place your ankles between rollers. You jump on the bench with your face down. Your entire torso is supported by the bench. This allows for your legs to hang down at a 90 degree angle. You perform the movement by contracting your glutes and raising you legs up to a horizontal position.
At this point, you try to contract your glutes and lower back as tight as possible. Then you lower the weight past the 90 degree starting point to a position where your ankles are in alignment with your head. This is the point where the disks are stretched apart to allow fluid to enter the joints.
Sport Specific Training is a specialty program designed to make the client better at the sport they are playing. He or she wants that edge to give them the best chance of winning against their competitors or achieving a personal best. Parents can give their child a better chance of winning too. It can be done either on a One on One basis or as a Group of athletes/team mates/friends, playing the same sport. (more…)
Youth Speed, Agility, Strength and Conditioning, an offshoot of our Sport Specific Training, is designed to instruct older children and young adults the fundamentals of working out to get faster, more agile, stronger and have more endurance, so that they can play sports better and raise their level of fitness. As an added benefit, these students end up looking better, feeling better about themselves and having increased self esteem and self confidence. This may be just the thing they need to have an easier time coping with the pressures of growing up and attending middle school and high school. Class sizes will be limited so that we can insure students get the attention they deserve so they can learn properly. Remember, it only takes a few repetitions to learn to do something incorrectly and have that pattern ingrained in your brain and neuromuscular pathways. Unlearning the wrong way of doing something however, can take hundreds or even thousands of correct repetitions. So learn to do it right the first time! (more…)
The Revolution Training Program is in a class format of up to ten people. It is designed and implemented by one of our personal trainers, who will see that you do all exercises correctly and that you are pushed to your limits. The energy is kept up by the trainer and his motivation and the high energy music pumping through our sound system.
It incorporates resistance training, cardiovascular training, plyometrics, core and flexibility work at the same time. You go from one station to the next, no rest, no conversations, just a hard, but fun workout. The stations may be a Cybex weight machine, free weights, a Spin bike, a running in place rebounder, a jump rope, a plyometric platform, etc. We are always changing the program to insure that your body doesn’t adapt to it and benefits just keep on coming. It is designed to work all aspects needed to improve ones over-all physical conditioning in a time efficient, affordable manner. Try the first session for free. Come with a friend or co-worker. It’s a great team builder. (more…)
Scientific Athlete Performance Testing is designed to test the limits of athletes’ performances and capabilities and is offered at Bodysport. We utilize the services of DavidSandler and Strength Pro. David is the genius behind Fox Sport’s “Sport Science” and the Discovery Channel’s “Fight Science“. With his advanced testing equipment and procedures, he will not only measure your strengths and weaknesses, he can help prescribe the correct training protocols to correct them! You can have David or the trainers here at Bodysport use this information to optimally train you. Or you can take the results to your trainer and have him/her use them to formulate a better training program for you. (more…)
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