The Human Performance Centre’s strength is their multidimensional team. It is made up of individuals from a wide diversity of training and education, and sporting experiences. We work together, sharing ideas and training ideas to give each and every individual the best possible program. While you have one or two individuals working with you and your team you receive the knowledge and experiences of everyone on our team.

The Centre’s goal is to maximize your training with the ultimate goal of maximizing your performance. While the physical component of training is very important, the mental training, the nutritional advice and learning proper rest and recovery will ultimately lead to our goal of addressing the entire athlete and reaching peak levels.

The Centre also has incorporated into it a Sports Medicine Clinic that is at your disposal. Our athletic therapists are trained in preventing injuries, assessing gait and sport biomechanics. Their input is important and valued and helps takes us to the next level.

This is a great question. We cannot make someone into a world class 100 metre sprinter if they do not have world class genetics. Most sport has become quicker and requires more agility and coordination and does not require that you be a 100 metre (straight ahead) sprinter. We can improve your explosive power, reaction, dynamic flexibility, sport and position specific agility, coordination and balance.

It is all about recognizing what is required to make someone more agile and more coordinated. If we improve strength, explosive and reactive strength, dynamic flexibility we will make you faster for your sport.

Injuring young athletes via weight training is actually a fallacy and not backed up by any research. There are many position papers (AMA, NSCA to name a few) that take a very strong standing supporting young athletes and weight training. My question to you would be what are your goals for your athletes? Strength can be gained in a number of different ways that don’t require weights. Working on different movement based skills is more important in this age (pre-puberty) where they don’t even have the hormones to get the best benefits of strength training.

I am going to answer your question with another question. What type of stretching have you been utilizing? If you have been statically (holding the same position for 15-40 seconds or so) stretching then yes stretching is not good before you go for a run. Lets not even get into the physiology let’s just use common sense. When you run, you move dynamically not statically (even if it an easy jog). So why would you warm up and stretch by not moving and then move quickly? If you are stretching dynamically then keep it up you are doing great. Dynamic flexibility is moving through the entire range actively and pausing at the end of that range (1-2 seconds) to give a little bit of a stretch.

In a word no you don’t (actually should not) have to all out to get maximal results. When the body is fatigued it will use muscles that it doesn’t usually use to do those movements. In training the wrong muscles you may actually be hindering your athletic development. When you train it should be well organized into heavy, medium and light days. When you are totally exhausted you cannot train your speed, agility and quickness optimally. Your body cannot recover 100% if you are training on a daily basis maximally. Did you know that it is during your rest and recovery days that your body makes the most growth? So no you should not train all out to improve your athletic performance.