ACCELERATION PROGRAM
Each Athlete’s Training Will Include:
The running treadmill will be used to analyze and improve your running mechanics. Using mirrors and sometimes video, we show you any problems with your gait. We help you lengthen and quicken your stride, so you’re faster and more agile. You’ll use the treadmill to run sprints at gradually increasing speeds and elevations, so your body gets conditioned to recover quickly from enzymes released during bursts of activity.
Plyometrics are footwork drills designed to improve your quickness, agility, body control and explosiveness. You’ll gain outstanding spatial awareness and muscular power.
Strength training involves the use of weight lifting equipment to improve your power base. Very young athletes may use strength-building techniques that don’t involve weights.
Patented Sprintcords attach to your arms or legs to increase resistance when you’re running, hitting, kicking, or throwing. They are used differently for each sport. Sprintcords enable athletes to strengthen at velocities used in actual athletic competition.
The Acceleration Program Will:
Improve Sprinting Biomechanics
Incline running on the treadmill allows specific development of the key factors associated with acceleration, optimizing both the training effect and the training area. Forward acceleration can only be developed from a certain point in your stride to toe off. That’s why incline capabilities help each athlete learn and maintain knee drive, proper pelvic and trunk position, forceful contraction of the lower extremity, optimal stride length and properly coordinated upper extremity movement. Our high-speed treadmill also allows for specific neuromuscular recruitment and synaptic response.
Increase Maximum Sprint Speed
Athletes will reach optimal speed by increasing the two components of speed: stride length and stride frequency. Stride length increases through improvements in strength, flexibility and coordination; stride frequency increases by the selective recruitment of neuromuscular pathways.
Increase Anaerobic Tolerance
By increasing lactate tolerance and lactate clearance capacity, athletes gain the ability to maintain maximum speed for a longer duration or for repeated bouts without decreasing speed. Recovery times have been noted to be reduced by as much as 50 percent.
The Acceleration Program Will:
Deliver Results
When you train on the Carolina Acceleration Programs, you not only will improve your conditioning to a higher level, but you also improve your quickness, balance, agility and overall athletic performance. The average athlete results are a 2-4 inch increase in vertical jump, a 50% reduction in recovery rates, a decrease of .20 of a second in a 40-yard sprint, a decrease of .10 of a second in the 10-yard sprint.
Provide Safety
Safety of the athlete is #1. Athletes train in a controlled environment allowing trainers to inform them of the specific drills prior to beginning. They are under adult supervision during training sessions and are always spotted when running on the Super Treadmill. The Super Treadmill has a subsurface designed from interchangeable polymers that provides additional shock absorption. The treadmill also has a specially-designed spotting mechanism and handlebar for backward running. A safety harness is also used when the athlete is backpedaling.
Increased Proprioception, Improved Body Composition & Enhanced Self-Esteem
Gains in each of these areas come directly or indirectly from completing the Acceleration Running Program. And each, in turn, can contribute to an athlete’s gain in speed and overall success.
Increased Aerobic Base For Long Distance Running
The distance running protocols are for 800 to 1500 meter and 3k to 10k. These protocols were designed to precisely train endurance runners with Acceleration Sports Training technology and to be as specific to race distance as possible. Endurance training needs to have an aerobic base and enhancement of this base should lead to greater success in long distance running.
How It Works:
The Acceleration program is a 18 session program that takes approximatly 6-9 weeks depending on how you schedule your workouts. Each session will last 60-75 minutes and will be scheduled at a specific time on a specific day. You should plan to schedule two to three sessions a week for maximum strength and physiological changes. Some athletes should lift weights two to three times a week, run on the treadmill two times a week and perform plyometrics one time a week. We’ll help you plan your schedule when you begin. At the end of the program, you get a follow-up re-evaluation so we can measure your improvements.
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