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Steel Fitness SOS Sports-specific Off Season Training

Sports-specific Off Season Training

 
S.O.S. stands for Sport-specific Off Season training but is more commonly known as a cry for help. FACTS Fitness offers an S.O.S. to the athlete trying to take his or her performance from poor to fair, fair to good and good to great. With hard work and commitment, there are some who will go from poor to great. Is that you? Whatever your goal may be S.O.S. can answer the call for help.

S.O.S. is a sport-specific training program for athletes of any age and fitness level that will to take their performance to the next level. The program works on enhancing speed, explosiveness, agility, strength, power, coordination, and endurance. For each group of athletes, our world class team of fitness trainers designs a dynamic series of training sessions aimed at maximizing the participants' athleticism through core strengthening, Olympic-style power lifting, plyometric training, and aerobic and anaerobic conditioning. The result is an athlete with better endurance, balance, explosiveness, power, and core strength, which is instrumental in minimizing the risk of sports injuries.

Upon completing the SOS program, one can expect to see an improvements in vertical jump, 40 yard dash time, and bench press and squat abilities, not to mention improved agility, flexibility, first step quickness, reaction time, and hand-eye coordination,  Creativity and functionality are key elements of the SOS program. Our world class team of fitness trainers will carefully construct a series of neuromuscular reactive training techniques combined with isotonic, isometric, and isokinetic movements, utilizing agility ladders, hurdles, and bosu balance trainers.  

 
S.O.S. training is offered for the following programs:
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Lacrosse
  • Soccer
  • Tennis
  • Track and Field
  • Volleyball
S.O.S. training program will include, but not be limited the following:
  • 60-minute sessions led by a certified and degreed trainer with a group of athletes.
  • Program designed to improve body awareness, speed, footwork, coordination, agility, flexibility, strength, and balance.
  • Consultation and instruction with coaches and/or physical education department
  • Explanation of proper and efficient training aimed at improving an athlete’s performance, and minimizing risk of injury.
  • Sessions will vary by group (based on the demands of the specific sport), but all sessions will involve the following:
                 o Plyometrics
                 o Circuit weight training
                 o Cardio training
                 o Pilates and yoga exercises
                 o Use of resistance bands, bosu, and agility ladders

“The S.O.S. program has provided athletes with state-of-the-art exercises during the off-season enabling them to be well prepared for their in-season sports. The trainers are world-class and have appropriately pushed the athletes to become faster, stronger and more confident. Coaches have spent less time with time consuming conditioning drills and more time on the technical and strategic aspects of the sports they are coaching. The S.O.S. program is a winner!!!!”

Jim Barr, Athletic Director of Delaware County Christian School