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High Performance
ASA - Australian Sports Academy is committed to providing a unique sports training system that allows athletes to achieve their ultimate potential in both national and international sport.
ASA has a dynamic and dedicated group of professionals with extensive training backgrounds, all brought together to offer their services to athletes that want to get the best out of their training and performance.
ASA has created unique methods of assessing and evaluating athletes to set the platform for developing tailored training and conditioning programs that are unlike anything you may have seen before. The combination of our skills as athletic experts and strength and conditioning specialists allows us to provide the best resources and facilities in the fields of sports medicine and performance conditioning.
Who is High Performance Training for?
- Are you an active individual at any level of training or competition?
- Are you a motivated athlete?
- Have you have been struggling with recurrent pain or injuries that have limited your performance?
- Are you looking for that edge in training that will take you to the next level?
- Have you reached a plateau in your current training program?
- Are you a coach looking for the best way to get the most out of your athletes?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then ASA’s High Performance Training is for you. Consider the benefits that you could gain from the following systems and instruction:
Starting with our foundation biomechanical and movement analysis followed by our diverse methods of assessing flexibility, strength, endurance, stability, speed and agility, coupled with cutting edge soft tissue release techniques, manual stretching skills, and a myriad of strength training exercises, we cover all the bases. We leave no stone unturned in an effort to help you achieve your training and competition goals.
Recinditioning
ASA’s unique approach to athlete high performance training lies within our reconditioning system. We begin with evaluating athletes from the ground up, defining their imbalances and training limitations. Next, we isolate contributing factors and by reintegrating the body as a whole, we can build the athlete back to their previous level and beyond.
Our philosophy is to first develop foundation and biomechanical basics. Like any formidable and efficiently functioning structure, a solid foundation is necessary to produce best results. Hence, each athlete is assessed by a foundation biomechanical and movement analysis followed by an extensive physical exam. This allows us to pinpoint inefficient muscle patterns, physical weaknesses, inflexibility, imbalances, and instability in an athlete’s body. Once we’ve established what these limiting factors are, we set out on a progressive scientific approach to reconditioning these areas.
Once the foundation is set, the athlete will then be ready for re-integration into normal training and competition. Foundation biomechanical and movement analysis
The foundation biomechanical and movement analysis is a detailed process of evaluating human movement patterns to determine if an individual may have deficiencies in flexibility, strength, endurance, stability, speed and / or agility. This analysis is divided into two parts - the upper quadrant, and the lower quadrant examinations. We follow this analysis with a full assessment process where the athlete’s flexibility, strength, endurance, stability and speed are systematically tested in order to define weaknesses, limitation, and instability. Based on this analysis and testing procedure, the athlete will have a comprehensive breakdown of exactly what strengths and weaknesses are apparent in their bodies, and more importantly, what they need to implement in their training to improve their future performance.
Training
When we train athletes we don’t just develop a program, we create a tailored, functional program based on knowing the fundamentals of the athlete. By examining the athlete with the foundation biomechanical and movement analysis we can determine where they are in their development process, and thereby establish the appropriate stage to begin their high performance training programming.
We build athletes from the centre outwards and make sure they are balanced and that they “can” do the movements we require them to do. And we build their training programs in a progressive manner using the most effective exercises and training tools in the business.
Testing
When we test athletes we have a proven process. We use our foundation biomechanical and movement analysis first to assess an athlete’s underpinning strengths and weaknesses. Following this, we assess an athletes basic conditioning elements like cardiovascular fitness and body composition. Then, we design a specific set of tests, first to assess the appropriate elements of conditioning necessary for their particular sport, and then we include other “sports specific” tests that might only be performed by an athlete of that particular sport.
This information then becomes the baseline for designing the athlete’s specific training regime or, it can give a coach the information he or she may need to develop their athletes’ / team’s training program.
ASA’s testing systems are designed and tailored to individual or group specific requirements. We’ll design and set up everything. We will analyse the information and let you know where you or your athlete(s) stand, so that you may be better prepared for a competitive season.
Program Development
We develop training programs of every nature. We are fully capable of analysing a sport, developing a yearly periodised plan, and designing a specific conditioning program to get you where you need to be. We can also break down programming into shorter phases, or periods, working one step at a time to have you peaking at the right time for competition.
Programs can also be developed for coaches or organisations to help them build a training regime that is right for their athletes or team.
ASA Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model
- It is often said that there is nothing more powerful than a good idea whose time has come. The time has never been better for sport organisations to consider the important role of values in their mandate and activities, and the contribution that ‘management by values’ can make in their operations.
- It is our view at the ASA that the major challenge facing sport in the world today is creating and sustaining fundamental, strong connections between and among the different elements of the sport system. This system is a complex hierarchy of organisations delivering sport at the local, regional, continental and global levels and includes sports governing bodies, clubs schools, colleges and universities.
- The different world sport systems has been described as being fragmented and uncoordinated, lacking the innovation, collaboration and connection that are necessary to achieve an integrated system of facilities, programs and personnel driving excellence in sport at all levels.
- It is widely acknowledged that LTAD has the potential to serve as the framework to unite and drive this system.
- LTAD is premised on the explicit value of placing the needs of the athlete first, and considers the physical, mental, emotional and cognitive development of children and adolescents as essential to building physical literacy and long-term health.
- LTAD impacts the entire sport continuum and integrates elite sport, community sport and school-based sport and recreation.
- The concept of LTAD has not been widely embraced by governments and sport leaders in the world and work is now being done to implement the model.
- LTAD implementation is proving to be challenging and in practice looks very different from the sport experience in different countries that we have all come to know (children grouped by age, encouraged to specialise early, coached by parent volunteers without training, focused on training for competition and competition itself, and not on skill development, etc.)
- What is emerging is a realisation that the implementation of LTAD within the different sports governing bodies systems will require a seismic shift in the planning, organisation and delivery of sport by parents, coaches, administrators, teachers and other sport leaders.
- ASA will help the sports governing bodies to understand and emphasise the values in and the value of sport in order to create and delivering a quality sport environment for all.
- ASA believes that the world sport system cannot thrive without successful implementation of LTAD, and that this implementation will require an explicit commitment to values. By this ASA means not just publicly stating what Olympic values are, but translating these values into plans, decisions, actions, outcomes and experiences. It also means positioning values at the core of every organisation's vision and mission.
- ASA will help to set out this premise in more detail and suggests tangible next steps for embracing a ‘management by values’ approach for world sports.
- ASA is ready to offer the necessary and professional help for administrators, coaches, players within sport organisations who want to improve the performance of their organisations and the capacity of the world sport system.
- ASA believes that The Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model, used by many sport federations, assists in an athlete's development training, competition, and recovery from the competitive years, based on the maturation level of an individual - rather than chronological age.
- ASA will help Athletes to progress through LTAD experience training and competition in programs that consider their biological and training ages, in creating periodical plans specific to their development needs.
- Today’s athletes are breaking records that many thought were untouchable—in large part due to the major advances in sports training.
- ASA presents the LTAD principles and practices of this new era of athletic training in the most thorough and useful application ever of its kind.
- ASA high performance consultants will be able to tailor the LTAD to the development of sport-specific performance factors.
- The ASA revolutionary training system reveals the future of athletic training for many seasons to come.
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