Performance Training

Culture

Setting the standard of the pursuit of excellence, both as athletes and human beings. Understanding that we have the privilege of getting better each day that we step into the weight room, and that we should never take that opportunity for granted. Impact Performance is a welcoming environment, and thrives off of positive energy and bringing intensity to each training session. We encourage all athletes to show their personality and be their authentic selves in their pursuit of excellence.

Consistency

Being 1% better each day is how we reach our goals. Success isn’t linear, and there will be obstacles to reach those goals. However, if we focus on each training session and being better than the day before, there are no limits on what we can achieve. It is our job to show athletes that process of improvement and help guide them in their road to success. Being consistently very good is better than being sometimes great.

Persistence

Challenges come in all shapes and sizes throughout life. Impact Performance strives to instill a never give up attitude in everybody that walks through its doors. The weight room is not just character revealing, but should also be character building. By showing athletes how to overcome adversity in training, they will build skills for overcoming adversity in their sport and in life.

Accountability

When the bar is raised to a certain standard, we need to hold each other responsible to maintain that same standard in order to be elite. This is a life skill that will take them far as they advance into their athletic career and in their lives outside of athletics. Staying attentive to the little details, attacking each day with great enthusiasm, and lifting others up when they are down.

Intent

Everything we do when we train will always have a reason behind it, while being completed with great effort and intent. There will be no going through the motions. At Impact Performance, we are detail oriented. Having worked with hundreds of elite level athletes, we understand the need for doing the little things right with great focus and consideration.

1. Ground Based and Multi-Joint Movements

The majority of sports are played with the athletes’ feet on the ground and multiple joints being used. By using these sport-specific type of movements, we prepare athletes for an in-competition stimulus.

2. Training In All Three Planes of Movement

Teaching athletes how to move efficiently in each plane of movement (Sagittal, Frontal, Transverse) is critical to athletic performance because all movement is three dimensional. Being able to produce and resist forces plane to plane will increase the athleticism of the athlete.

3. Progressive Overload and the SAID Principle

To produce successful long-term athletic development, the use of progressive overload is crucial. Applying stress in a carefully planned approach that the athlete is not adapted to. This includes strategic changes in load, volume, tempo, frequency, and the difficulty of the movement.

4. Explosiveness and Force Development

Sports demand highly skilled, explosive, and quick movements. By stressing jump training and power development, we improve the athlete’s ability to rapidly produce force in a short amount of time.

5. Energy System Development

Every sport has specific energy system demands. That is why we train all three energy systems to build a strong base then look at the specific sport, position, and energy system that needs to be targeted the most frequently. The three energy systems trained are: ATP-PCR (up to 15 seconds of activity), Glycolytic (15 seconds to 2 minutes of activity), and Oxidative (activity longer than 2 minutes).

• Strength
• Power
• Metabolic Conditioning
• Core Strength
• Flexibility/Mobility
• Proprioception and Body Awareness
• Nutrition
• Mental Toughness

The usage of Olympic weightlifting and its variations, powerlifting, ground based multi-joint movements, plyometric training and free weight exercises to maximize athletic performance while also reducing risk of injury.

The thoughtful consideration to needs analysis and evaluation of the athlete and sport will always come first, in order to create the most sport-specific type of adaptation throughout their time training at Impact. The combination of carefully planned out exercise progressions, detailed coaching, and scientifically proven progressive overload will lead to not only excellence in the weight room, but also in their respective sport.