Sport Specific Fitness
Performance • Strength •
Conditioning
• Nutrition • Weight-loss
Whether you’re a competitive athlete, a recreational athlete, or someone looking to improve your overall daily health, our personal coaches can help you optimize your time and energy into peak performance. Sport Specific Fitness has evaluated hundreds of strength & conditioning and weight-loss programs to bring you the best practices, tips and advice. Our programs have been developed based on the most time-proven training methods from the leading coaches and experts in their fields to
get you in the best shape of your life in the shortest time possible. We specialize in each of the major components of fitness: strength training, speed training, plyometrics, endurance training, flexibility & stretching and nutrition.
What is Sport Specific Fitness?
The rule of sport specific fitness means an athlete’s training should be customized
according to the demand of the sport he or she competes. This entails taxation on the body’s energy systems, neuromuscular system and exercises that duplicate the movement patterns for each sport. For example, a lacrosse player uses most of its energy system accelerating, decelerating, changing direction, passing, shooting, checking and maintaining good defensive body position. Although, a lacrosse player runs 3-5 miles during a game, it’s HOW a player runs that distance which dictates the appropriate training method. When classifying the sports, lacrosse athletes use approximately 60% anaerobic/ATP, 20% anaerobic/lactate, and 20% aerobic. By contrast, a long distance runner’s principal energy system is aerobic.
Conditioning drills for lacrosse athletes should concentrate on sprinting, more specifically
interval training. Using this same theory, basketball, hockey or football players, and other athletes, should use a sport specific fitness program suitable for their sport. With over 15,000 workout programs for over 50 sports, including baseball, wrestling, cycling and golf, SSF will put you on the right performance program that will give you an edge over the competition.
