What Makes Us Unique?

By Speed Doctors
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Traditionally, how fast an athlete runs/skates or how far a ball is hit or how fast it is thrown has been the measure of performance and performance potential. Typical training concepts follow these ideas of measurement and train for superficial and temporary gains in speed and strength without considering what science has shown to be more important; biomechanical function.  In fact research in sports science has shown that the fundamental difference between high end athletes and average ones is NOT strength or power.  Sports science has shown that beyond strength & conditioning it is neuro-motor coordination (nerve-muscle sequencing) and biomechanical function that make the DIFFERENCE in performance outcomes: the difference that establishes how fast, how quick, how hard.

3D Motion Analysis (3DMA) is a precise and objective measuring tool used to analyze human movement and is a direct assessment of biomechanical function.  If slow motion video was compared to x-ray, 3DMA is like taking an MRI of an athlete’s motion.  It tells us about dynamic joint ranges of motion and stability patterns, when muscles are firing and how efficiently they are producing and transferring power during a given athletic activity.  3DMA is not a new technology in athletic performance or even baseball, although it has in past only been available to high end athletes in facilities such as Dr. Jim Andrews’ (Tommy John surgery) American Sports Medicine Institute, and other high end research facilities.

Physical screening, examination and testing is an excellent way of quantify the strength, size, endurance and even power production capacity of an athlete – the SIZE of the engine. 3DMA addresses the EFFICIENCY of the engine – evaluating HOW an athlete runs, accelerates and changes direction with their centre of mass.  3DMA addresses not only the fundamental aspects to performance changes but also reveals an athlete’s injury potential.  This is particularly important at the developmental level since we not only want to train athletes to become better but also to avoid future injury mechanisms which will affect them later in their career and their life.

The bottom line is every athlete and each body is unique and therefore each solution is unique.  Our belief is that traditional training concepts must go further to build an individual program around each athlete’s specific biomechanical limitations and deficiencies using revolutionary 3D Motion Analysis and Progressive Skills Training (PSTTM) drills which retrain neuro-motor programs in movement.  This approach focuses gains in strength and speed into better movement patterns and larger gains in performance .… simply put if we know how you move and accelerate, how you breakdown and where your specific limitations in performance are we can more directly and purposefully customize your program to you and make more dramatic gains in your performance.

  • Increase speed and strength in your athletic performance
  • Improve first step takeoff to get to ball or base before your opponent
  • Improve your ability and speed changing direction while maintaining body control and fluidity
  • Improve your top end speed
  • Recover faster during the game & between games and minimize your injury potential

What level do you want to play at?

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