Sports Conditioning

Your training program is specific to you.

If you want to be the best you possibly can be at your sport wily nelly weight training won’t cut it! Sports specific training, power conditioning, speed training, injury prevention, posture, breathing, nutrition and skill training are all just as important as each other. Getting the right advice is paramount to reaching your full potential. Every athlete is different and your weight training regime should reflect that.

Lifting heavy weights all year round is not the key to reaching your full potential. Many sports require the strength of only certain muscles more that others, this results in weaknesses in other areas of the body. Understanding your body’s weaknesses and imbalances is important when designing a strength training program, not only to prevent injury but also to ensure that all the muscles in the body are working in synergy with each other. A Functional athlete very rarely gets injured.

At Form Fitness we start with a full body assessment which entails postural analysis, muscle imbalance testing, gait analysis, movement pattern assessment, strength testing, flexibility testing etc. By attaining as much information as we can about your body, we can ensure that you will get the fastest results with out injury. A body that works in synergy is far more powerful than one that doesn’t.

Training Principles and Periodisation

Form Fitness uses Power Program principles developed by renowned research scientist Dr. Michael Colgan. This Training Program uses free moving and functional exercises as well as periodises your training cycles each year to fit in with your competitive season.

Training Cycles:

• Extension Connection Cycle – strengthening tendons and ligaments
• Strength Stability – strengthening and stabilising muscles
• Power Cycle – strengthening prime movers (big muscles)
• Link Cycle – incorporates transferring the strength, stability and coordination of the previous cycles into sport specific exercise.

When you train the whole body in balance and bring it all together your potential is limitless.

Make your weight training count and Contact Form Fitness for your complementary goal setting session now.

CLIENT TESTAMONIAL

I’ve trained with Janelle for five years now gaining increases in my overall strength, balance, flexibility and most importantly my core power. After five years of cycling at a competitive level my injury prevention has been an imperative part of my programme. Through Janelle’s drive and guidance I’ve slashed 32:25mins off my Karapoti Race time achieving 1st place in Senior Women 2009.