Albany Therapeutic Massage & Sports Performance Center (ATMSPC)

High-Performance Strength & Conditioning Programs are implemented for serious athletes who want to perform at their best. These programs are designed based on the dominant biomotor abilities (i.e., agility, speed, strength, power and endurance) of the athlete’s chosen sport. Athletes must go through the C.H.E.K. Assessment and meet certain criteria to be qualified for participation. “If the athlete has pain, muscle imbalances, poor eating and lifestyle practices they must go through at least 1-phase of Corrective Exercise and Holistic Lifestyle Coaching and be re-assessed to qualify for participation.

Appropriate Periodization

Unfortunately, today athletes with the best intentions are training in ways that lead to overtraining and subsequent injury, or short-term successes followed by an injury at the most critical time in their season. Sadly, this can be avoided. All exercise programs, especially Strength & Conditioning programs for athletes have to follow an organized approach to training that involves cycling periods of work focusing on sport specific biomotor abilities with periods of rest. This organized approach to training called periodization. For example, a common error most coaches and athletes make is to doing high-intensity, sport-specific strength and conditioning before establishing a solid foundation which happens during base conditioning phases. Base conditioning must take place before sport-specific strength and conditioning to avoid future injuries. THE FOLLOWING ARE WHAT MOST ATHLETES ARE MISSING:

• Improving Health - body needs to be healthy to handle the stress of exercise
• Improving Cardiovascular fitness as needed
• Improving Psychological fitness - self-confidence and well-being
• Improving Flexibility, Stability and Muscle Balance
• Improving Function of the body through optimal motor engram programming; developing and understanding how the nervous system works
• Address relevant biomotor ability deficiencies- people often avoid what they need to improve upon and develop a greater imbalance
• Preparation for specific strength and conditioning

Now you can see why skipping these 7-critical areas that are addressed during based conditioning lead to problems. Additionally, the sport-specific strength and conditioning programs are generally are performed at a high-intensity and focused on building strength and power for a given sport. If athletes muscle imbalances and stabilization problems (which usually go together) and start sport-specific strength and conditioning programs they are setting themselves up for disaster. Before anyone should pursue strength and power training they should have optimal flexibility/muscle balance and stable joints. The old saying, “You can’t fire a canon from a canoe.” helps us visualize the importance for us to stabilize joints for optimal expression of our strength and power. This situation can also be compared to putting a Ford Mustang’s 8-cylinder engine in a VW Bug and loosening the lug nuts on the wheels. How long will it take before you crash? Typically the more the athlete needs base conditioning the faster they get injured preparing for their sport with a poorly designed program and/or playing their sport.

We implement the “High-Performance Sport-Specific” Phase of strength and conditioning only after successfully progressing through all 7-steps of base conditioning. This process occurs faster for some and slower for others. These programs are based upon the comprehensive C.H.E.K. Practitioner Level IV assessment to determine the appropriate starting point for each athlete. The approximate number of base conditioning phases will be determined after the initial assessment. Every program is customized to what the athlete needs to prevent injury and achieve new levels performance they only dreamed about.

We provide one-on-one personal training/coaching for all our athletes to help implement your customized holistic health and fitness programs. Please see our Personal Training link for more info.

Customized High-Performance Exercise Program: $750

This program provides 4 components: 1) 2-4 Hour Physical Assessment, 2) Customized High Performance Exercise Program Design (1.5-hour value) including the “Customized Holistic Lifestyle Program” and the “Advanced Metabolic Typing Program”. 3) TWO One-hour digital audio-recorded results sessions to go over your Advanced Metabolic Typing Test results and program, your Physical, Holistic Lifestyle Assessment results, and your Customized High-Performance Exercise Program. 4) Program Instruction includes 3-4 hours of teaching you your stretching program and exercise program. The stretching program and exercise program will also be recorded on a DVD for you. You are guaranteed ten hours of contact time with Paul. If there is extra time left over after your program is implemented you have the option to receive Neuromuscular Therapy, Personal Training, or Holistic Lifestyle Coaching for the balance of your time.