Youth Sports Development

When people think of youth sports development, they often think of sports skill development such as improving their golf swing, curveball or jump serve.

But if you want to actually develop a young athlete, improving their movement is a MUST.

How can anybody possible think that a 14 year old who has minimal hip mobility, a tight upper back and a weak core can possibly hit a curveball by "working" on his swing? Take a step back and see what the is the basis of the swing?

Movement.

Teach kids to move more efficiently, with fewer biomechanical restrictions and you'll clean up the swing in a hurry without even working on the swing!

Our Summer Speed, Strength & Power Camp just passed the half-way point. Within the 2 different groups, there are 2 different groups split on ability level/age. Each group gets a slightly different workout. The youngest group is focused on exploring movement, learning what their bodies are capable of. The oldest group is refining movement and learning HOW to workout on their own. The other two groups are essentially one step ahead of the younger group.

This is the spectrum that needs to be followed. This is DEVELOPMENT. The younger athletes we are working with will one day be at the level of the older kids. But there is no way in heck that the 8 year-old's in our groups will be doing the same workouts as the 18 year old. The 8 year old is different than the 12 year-old, who is different than the 15 year-old who is different than the 18 year-old.

Train smart, train hard, train MOVEMENT FIRST.

Another success story of a Peak Performance athlete...

Over the course of the year I get quite a few updates about the players that we have trained. This year has been exceptionally well as we have had 4 of our seniors accept offers to play their respective sport in college.

However, today's update is about a high school softball player who will be playing for the Central Cal Intensity club softball team this summer. Cheyenne Rodriguez has been coming to us for a year and a half now. I first met Cheyenne at a New Year's Baseball/Softball Camp that we co-hosted at the end of 2008.

She signed up for our In-Season Baseball/Softball Program in January of 2009. She continued into the fall of 2009 and trained all the up to the start of softball season. Cheyenne has been one of the hardest working PLAYERS in our program! She has become one of the more explosive hitters on her team, consistently hitting the ball hard in every time she is up to bat.

We have worked to develop the connection between the amazing rotational power of Cheyenne's hips and the limitless potential of a strong core, to develop an amazing swing. This has been a work in progress. It wasn't a weekend camp, it wasn't hitting balls in practice over and over. It was teaching Cheyenne how to develop power and transfer through her core to her arms using medicine ball rotational hip throws, cable chops and single leg pushup's. Then those movement skills were carried into her sport skills.

So how well is she doing?

Cheyenne LAUNCHED a massive HOME RUN this weekend in an NSA tournament up in Madera, which saw CCI take the 18u championship!

Cheyenne and the rest of the CCI 18u team will be training at Pair & Marotta Peak Performance this summer to continue to develop every part of their athleticism. Most of the team was able to make it in for the past 3 months of our In-Season Baseball/Softball training program and we saw an amazing change in their leg strength, core strength and foot speed. But it must be learned over period of time.

Our Speed, Strength & Power (SSP) Camp can do just that for your players this summer. Speed and power training is a must in the competitive sports of today. Great players will only get by on talent for so long. But a combination of talent and movement skill training at our SSP camp will ensure a better athlete that has fewer injuries and better outcomes in competition.

This years SSP Camp starts NEXT MONDAY, June 7th. It's not too late to register! Sign up today and make sure you are one of the 20 athletes that invests 48 hours this summer training to be a Peak Performer!