Athletic Training

Athletic training is about optimising all factors relevant to a sport (from stamina, to mobility, nutrition, strength and regeneration,) to achieve best performance. Most importantly, though, it is about avoiding injury which can lead to down time.
 
Planing and performing athletic training involves analysing and improving the relevant physical and sport-specific capabilities and movements of both the sport and the individual sportsperson.

Athletic Training content

Sport nutrition

In sport, nutrition is essential to optimal performance. The greater and longer the exertion, the more important it is to provide your body with all the required nutrients.

Nutrition is also crucial for regeneration and for recovering performance! A balanced diet complemented by supplements can improve performance.

Athletic profile

The term athletic profile means a detailed analysis of the sportsperson in relation to their strengths and weaknesses in the areas of stamina, flexibility, coordination, strength and stability, regardless of whether the person is an elite athlete or an amateur. This overall detailed anaysis enables us to individually adapt and appropriately carry out your training.

Targets are of course set depending on the needs of the sport in question.

Functional Movement Screen™ (FMS)

FMS is an assessment and evaluation system to document movement. Analysis of the pattern of movement allows functional impairments and asymmetries to be identified.

Such impairments and asymmetries can limit performance and give rise to a risk of injury in sport.

Jumping strength

Jumping is an important component of the range of movement in many sports, e.g. heading the ball in soccer, a smash in volleyball, or a jump shot in handball...

Improving jumping strength also has a direct effect on starting speed. An athlete who can jump higher can also run faster.

Sport Mentality

Often it is the mind that makes the difference between victory or defeat. How often are competitions or games won through willpower or lost through nerves?! We all know the saying ‚He who dares wins!‘


I can help with the following:
  • How do I best prepare for a competitive event?
  • How can I reduce or handle external negative influences?
  • How do I use my rest periods to concentrate on the competition?
  • What team-building approaches will help the team?

SMR - Self Myofascial Release

SMR is the self-alleviation of knots in muscles and alleviating muscle fascial pain. This is often known as ‚myofascial training‘.

Working on individual areas of the body, muscular tensions can be relieved and muscular tissue can be prepared for training. This has a postive affect on resilience and regeneration after training.

Sport-spezific stamina

A basic level of stamina is important; otherwise, though, stamina-related training depends to a large degree on the respective sport. Even for the same sport, it is possible, and advisable, to train differently depending on the position you play (e.g. in soccer, a striker has to run lots of short sprints whereas a defender has to run longer distances).

Strength training

Strength is probably the most important factor in sport. You can only withstand the great impact of sport without risking injury if you have a strong body.

Positive effects are, for example:
  • Increase in speed, jumping strength, maximal strength etc.
  • Improved physical development and performance in children, youths and adults
  • Strengthening tendons, ligaments, fascia and joints (protection against injury!!!!)
  • Building up fat free body mass (physical superiority)

Mobility & Stability

My training sessions are based on the ‚joint-for-joint‘ approach developed by Gray Cook and Michael Boyle.

Each joint or joint group has a different function: either mobility or stability, and so each joint needs to be trained in a specific way.

Multidirectional Speed

Many sports require speed, changes in direction, stopping and action speed. It is essential to train these skills to avoid injury and to be able to act or react more quickly.

Speed includes three aspects:
  • linear speed (straight movements)
  • lateral speed (sidewards movements)
  • multidirectional speed (movements in all directions)

Injuries can only be considerably reduced by carrying out such movements correctly, which is why technique training is so important.