Skip to Content

"By training the mind, we are training the body. The reverse is not necessarily the same."

Recent Articles

Youth Athletes and Strength Training

When discussing strength training for young athletes, parents often ask me if it is safe for children to workout with weights. The issue for most parents is the impact weight training can have on growth plates and many believe that training with weights can stunt their children's growth. 

The Art of Dribbling

Coaches of youth teams (ages 5-8) often ask me how to teach their players to pass the ball. Usually this comes from the realization that X team is winning lots of games because their players can pass the ball, making a nice progression to the opponent’s goal and scoring. 

No more "Big Foots"

It’s been more than a decade since we made the switch from the 11 a side game to the small sided games in the U5-U12 age groups. Despite the many benefits of playing small sided games, we have yet to produce players with similar technical skills as our international counterparts.

This program is intended for players who want to improve their ball control skills.

This clinic is designed for players in a same team, who want to improve their tactical insight. 

Often a player never reaches his peak performance due to lack of fitness. This program is designed to improve your aerobic and anaerobic fitness. In contrast to traditional training regimes that just focus on running for endless laps, this clinic improves your fitness with the use of a ball.

This program focuses on developing basic strength via the use of weight training. An initial evaluation of upper and lower body strength is performed and a training regime is designed to meet the needs of the trainee.

This is an advanced strength training program, that focuses on maximizing power as required by the player's sport. It requires at least a year of prior strength training. The program is designed with exercises that resemble moving patterns of the sport and that stimulate the metabolic needs of the sport. 

After an initial evaluation to determine an athlete's fitness level, a program is designed to improve aerobic and anaerobic fitness.