This is the ultimate question - why should you spend your money to come train at HealthTracks when you can go to one of several other training facilities in Springfield or when you can train at school?
There are many people and facilities that claim to train youth, but do that as a sidebar to everything else they do - training adults, running group classes, or coaching a team. Most of these people mean well, but do not know how to train youth - and to be clear it is NOT the same as training adults. Unfortunately these well intentioned people have little to no knowledge in teaching basic movement skills, strength skills, and/or athletic development skills. This is reality - most youth are being trained by people not skilled in training youth.
We only train youth athletes. It is what we have done for the past 10 years and what we will continue to do. We have the experience and the expertise in training youth from all backgrounds, skill levels, and sports. We continue to advance and improve everything we do on a daily basis to better meet the goals of our athletes. We don't limit ourselves to one style of training but instead are very dynamic in our approach - which allows us to constantly grow and evolve in our techniques.
Additionally, our staff is largely made up of certified and licensed athletic trainers (ATC's). So while other places claim to do injury prevention by having their athletes stretch and do random corrective work - we don't. Our programs are individualized to each athlete based on what they want (their goals) and what they need (what we find in our initial evaluation). We develop a specific injury reduction -because this is the best you can hope for- plan based on on of our assessment tools.
Finally, we don't look to make every youth we train a great "Weight-room" athlete - that kid that sets records in the weight room but sits on the bench. Don't misunderstand that -being strong is very important. All things being equal, the stronger athlete will always win. However, in sports rarely are things equal - in fact most times winning comes down to exploiting weaknesses. How many times when watching football have you seen the bigger, stronger offensive linemen get dominated by a defensive end that is quicker, more agile, and has a better reation time? Our goal is to improve each youths athletic ability. That might mean we work on their strength, or we might work on fixing their true weaknesses - what we work on is specific to each kid. Our ultimate goal is to improve their athletic performance through our supplemental training program.
So if you want to train with a staff that specializes in training youth athletes, is constantly improving, and has proven results then HealthTracks Training Center is the place for you. The only question then is are you ready?
