Eastabrook Elite Athletes

WHAT ARE THE THREE PILLARS OF PERFORMANCE?

STRENGTH

  • Alignment based movement that promotes strength and stabilization
  • Gain superior performance results
  • Bring more consistancy to your performance
  • Take high impact plays with greater ease
  • Gain speed and agility
  • increase endurance

BALANCE

  • Improve agility and Identify and Correct imbalances in the body
  • Execute acrobatic play with greater ease
  • Prevent injuries by working to correct asymytries caused by dominant side playing
  • working in wide and narrow bases and using low and high centres of gravity for stability

FLEXIBILITY

  • A high level of physical control is required just as much as mental control in sport
  • Dynamic movements combined with long deep holds
  • Increase fluidity and movement in the muscles and joints
  • Stretch and release muscles more easily with better application to the task at hand
  • Greater range of movement
  • Injury prevention

 

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts” – Earl Weaver

BENEFITS OF EASTABROOK ELITE: THE 3 PILLARS OF PERFORMANCE

istock_000024446800xsmall_610_300_s_c1_center_centerBalance

1.Standing balancing poses.
2. Balance of body or symmetry of musculature.

Better balance will surely help you on the field. An athlete’s body needs to be able to support compromising positions that sports put you in. If you have better balance, acrobatic plays will be common place and executed with greater ease, therefore elevating athletic ability and performance.

Balance of body OR symmetry of the muscles and alignment of the body is always considered. In athletics, there tends to be an imbalance in the way we use our bodies. We throw, shoot, run, hit, leap, etc, with a dominant side. This leads to restriction of movement and range of motion. The body continues to compensate for these asymmetries and this is where injuries start to happen.
Our strongest defense against injury is prevention.

Through PYFS, we will work on identifying and correcting these imbalances so that your body can continue to push new limits.


Strength

-Holding functional strength building poses.

A common misconception of yoga is that it does not build strength. Nothing could be further from the truth with certain forms of yoga including PYFS. Try holding a forearm plank for 2 minutes and let me know if your shoulders are not screaming and your core is not challenged to the fullest while the sweat drips down your face. Enough said!

 

Flexibility

– Dynamic movements combined with long deep holds.

We use Dynamic movements in order to increase fluidity and movement in the joints and muscles. As we create some heat and fatigue in the muscles, we gain strength and ability to strech and release muscles more easily and with better application to the sport, position and task at hand. Of course flexibility is the poster child for yoga, with PYFS we do flexibility training and we do LONG DEEP holds to better increase flexibility. The longer you hold a pose, the more tolerant of the position your body will become. Your muscles will release a little further alowing you to gain more range of movement in that position.