Scientific Athlete Performance Testing is designed to test the limits of athletes’ performances and capabilities and is offered at Bodysport.  We utilize the services of David Sandler and Strength Pro.   David is the genius behind Fox Sport’s “Sport Science” and the Discovery Channel’s “Fight Science“.  With his advanced testing equipment and procedures, he will not only measure your strengths and weaknesses, he can help prescribe the correct training protocols to correct them!  You can have David or the trainers here at Bodysport use this information to optimally train you.  Or you can take the results to your trainer and have him/her use them to formulate a better training program for you.

Correct exercise prescription is key to an athlete performing to his maximum capability and in preventing injury.  For example, is an athlete so quadricep strength dominant that the difference in strength compared to his hamstring presents the danger of ACL and MCL knee problems?  Or will the same condition make that athlete susceptible to hamstring strains or even tearing?

Another example would be vertical leap.  Many athletes have great vertical leap height, but are they exploding fast enough to get to that height as soon as possible?  Is the athlete deficient in the eccentric or concentric portion of the lift?  In sports, where the difference of being on or out of the play can be .01 second, the athlete and his trainer needs to know and David can tell you.

Are you looking to test yourself, a product, or a team? Are you interested in developing specific tests and collect vital information on your clients? Or do you just want someone to help you look over facts, crunch numbers, and help with data interpretation? Strength Pro’s team of experts have consulted for groups like National Geographic, Discovery, Fox Sports, and several MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL franchises. As well, Strength Pro serves on many scientific advisory boards providing research and testing information to many other organizations.

Here is a brief list of our advanced testing capabilities. While some of these tests may seem intimidating, all you need to know is that when David tests you, he will find your strengths and weaknesses, tell you WHY you are weak in those areas, and more importantly, prescribe the exact exercise routine based on scientific data, not objective observations with the naked eye, TO CORRECT those weaknesses.  Is it worth it?  When college scholarships worth tens even hundreds of thousands of dollars and million dollar professional athlete and endorsement contracts can come down to tenths of a second on the playing field, you bet it is!!!

Speed

Assess ability to cover distances

Examine stride and body mechanics

Provide video explanation of faults and corrective measures

Power

Assess actual power output of vertical and horizontal jumping

Analyze Rate of Force Development (RFD)

Analyze Eccentric Load Time, Amortization, and Concentric Force
Acceleration

Determine acceleration times

Analyze starting impulse

Analyze/comment on inertial influences

Analyze body alignment/position, and first step quickness

Reaction

Analyze time to react

Analyze movement sequence (power, acceleration) after reaction

Determine power on reaction from various positions

Strength

Examine force development

Examine force maintenance

Examine potential muscle recruitment patterns

Metabolic

Determine lactate thresholds

Determine HR, VO2 and overall aerobic fitness

Determine time to fatigue and anaerobic power maintenance

Group Nutritional Programming

Develop comprehensive diet prescriptions for your team or group

Provide regular diet check-back, re-evaluation and reprogramming diet

We are the Official Strength and Conditioning Center of the Las Vegas Knights Semi Pro Soccer Team

Youth Speed, Agility, Strength and Conditioning, an offshoot of our Sport Specific Training, is designed to instruct older children and young adults the fundamentals of working out to get faster, more agile, stronger and have more endurance, so that they can play sports better and raise their level of fitness. As an added benefit, these students end up looking better, feeling better about themselves and having increased self esteem and self confidence. This may be just the thing they need to have an easier time coping with the pressures of growing up and attending middle school and high school. Class sizes will be limited so that we can insure students get the attention they deserve so they can learn properly. Remember, it only takes a few repetitions to learn to do something incorrectly and have that pattern ingrained in your brain and neuromuscular pathways. Unlearning the wrong way of doing something however, can take hundreds or even thousands of correct repetitions. So learn to do it right the first time!

Below is Gerry working with a Western High School Football Player on improving the eccentric loading portion of his jump.  This is very important for overall athletic performance because in sports, it not only matters how high you jump, but how fast you jump and how fast after a jump you can jump again.  Think about suddenly stopping on a pass route and immediately jumping for the football.  Or going for a rebound against another player and you both miss.  First one back up gets the ball!

Western High Running Back and Defensive Back Working on Vertical Explosiveness!!!

We are the Official Strength and Conditioning Center of the Las Vegas Knights Semi Pro Soccer Team

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The Revolution Training Program is in a class format of up to ten people.  It is designed and implemented by one of our personal trainers, who will see that you do all exercises correctly and that you are pushed to your limits.  The energy is kept up by the trainer and his motivation and the high energy music pumping through our sound system.  The Revolution is easier to adapt for de-conditioned individuals or those with injuries such as bad knees, lumbar pain, rotator cuff pain, etc than our boot camp program mentioned below.   It can be a small step below our boot camps in intensity or we can turn it up to make it just as hard.

It incorporates resistance training, cardiovascular training, plyometrics, core and flexibility work at the same time.  You go from one station to the next, no rest, no conversations, just a hard, but fun workout.  The stations may be a Cybex weight machine, free weights, a Spin bike, a running in place rebounder, a jump rope, a plyometric platform, etc.  We are always changing the program to insure that your body doesn’t adapt to it and benefits just keep on coming.   It is designed to work all aspects needed to improve ones over-all physical conditioning in a time efficient, affordable manner.   Come with a friend or co-worker.  It’s a great team builder.

CLASS SCHEDULE:

Monday through Friday:     9:00AM     and      6:00PM

Saturday:     9:00AM

Classes will be added when necessary!

The Partner Training Program is available for two or three friends to sign up together and share the expense in working with their own personal trainer.

If you feel you’re a person that needs a lot of motivation and support to get started working out and eating properly, then grab a friend or two and start a program together!  When one is tired the other can motivate the other to get going.  Also, when it comes to changing nutritional habits, you’re usually away from our watchful eyes and we can’t hold you accountable.  So, it’s easier when two people do it together.

Finally, the partners split the training costs so it much more affordable!  Find a partner and call us today to schedule a partner program consultation to start down the road to getting healthier and looking better, together.