Train 4 The Game Mentorship

Austin, TX

2011 & 2012 Dates

Nov. 10th – 12th: No Longer Open
Jan. 12th – 14th: No Longer Open
May 10th – 12th: Registration Coming Soon

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Train 4 The Game (T4TG) is nationally recognized as an elite rehab, sports performance, and overall fitness facility. In a highly anticipated three-day seminar, Train 4 The Game is opening the doors to its brand new facility to allow fitness and rehab professionals to experience for themselves the amazing benefits of our Mentorship Program.

Join T4TG’s Mentorship Program as the Team of elite coaches demonstrates how to incorporate revolutionary training philosophies and techniques into your fitness or therapy program.

Everyone trains for their own game—from high-level and recreational sports to the game of life—seeking to look, feel and perform better in his or her own walk of life. Build and enhance your training programs with techniques that enable the body to move more efficiently, powerfully and pain-free during activities performed in both sports and everyday life. Discover how the T4TG system of training principles, strategies and techniques are applied to achieve results, such as:

• Superior sports performance
• Highly effective rehabilitation
• Greater overall fitness and vitality

Designed for trainers, physical therapists, and coaches who want to apply T4TG’s ground breaking training techniques to their fitness and therapy programs, the Mentorship Program will include three days of dynamic lectures and practical sessions presented by the T4TG Team. Highlighting the elements of 3D function and demonstrating effective movement techniques and exercises, you will come away with the knowledge and tools to create custom programs that address the true-to-life needs of your clients, patients, and athletes.

Introduction to 3 Dimensional (3D) function

3D function is the foundation of all movement. Life happens in 3D! Why not train in 3D? 3D refers to the fact that all of our muscles, bones and nerves (NeuroMusculoSkeletal system) are designed to move and react in three planes of motion—forward and backward (sagittal plane), side-to-side (frontal plane), and rotationally (transverse plane). Train 4 The Game enhances training by creating personal fitness programs that are grounded in the truths of human movement—addressing real-life needs with real-life training. For athletes to achieve their full potential, they must be able to meet the movement demands of the sport that they play. For example, for a sufferer of low back pain to regain optimal function, he or she must improve his or her body’s ability to move properly in everyday activities. Key topics in 3D function will include:

• Principles of Function – In this section, you will learn the significance of gravity, ground reaction force
• mass and momentum. You will learn training techniques that optimize the body’s ability to transmit
• these forces in the most efficient, effective and consequently the most powerful manner possible.

Transformational Zones

Transformational Zones (TZ) are essentially moments in time where movement changes direction. These occur when the body transfers its muscular loading to muscular exploding, and is dependent on the body’s utilization of “celeration”—both the decelerative and accelerative component. For example, swinging a baseball bat requires loading to prepare for the swing, exploding during the swing, and then loading to slow down the force of the swing. In this section, you will learn how to identify and analyze Transformational Zones, how to better understand the TZs of your athletes, and techniques for training the body to powerfully and efficiently transfer muscular loading to muscular exploding.

Movement Evaluation

All movements—from walking to top-ten highlights—are chain reactions that take place within the body. Understanding task demands, effectively training and rehabilitating towards those demands dictate that a thorough evaluation be completed to identify any limiting factors that may exist. In this section, you will learn how to analyze the movement of your clients in their given activities, and how this information is used to train and retrain the body to move properly. You will learn to identify causes and compensations in order to create programs to eliminate/prevent:

• Plantar Fasciitis
• Patella Femoral Syndrome
• ACL Tear
• Low Back Pain
• Rotator Cuff
• Tennis Elbow

Locomotion and Movement Acquisition

There is an efficient and effective pattern to all movement that the human body is designed to follow. The Train 4 the Game Mentorship Program will teach you how to utilize the principles of Locomotion and Movement Acquisition to train and re-train the body to understand and implement efficient motor programs automatically.

Key topics in Locomotion and Movement Acquisition will include:

Locomotor Pathways – Locomotion is moving the body from point A to point B. Which locomotor pathway the athlete chooses depends on the task at hand and the barriers within the environment. These pathways are built on the foundational movements which are sequenced to create patterns. These patterns have to be coordinated before agility can be trained. Once the athlete has a wide range of coordinated locomotor pathways to utilize, they can then be called upon subconsciously based upon what the game or life dictates.

Movement Categories - The foundational movements of human function can be divided into 5 basic categories. These categories encompass the foundational movements that must be established and enhanced in order to expand an individuals abilities.

Exercise Prescription and Analysis

For an athlete to have speed, power and agility, he or she must first be able to move efficiently in three planes of motion. The T4TG Mentorship will provide you with the knowledge and tools to evaluate your clients, players, or patients’ limiting factors and prescribe an infinite number of exercises that allow them to control and enhance their movements, pain-free and in 3D. Come away with the skills to enhance your training and therapy services with custom programs that train the body to subconsciously function efficiently and effectively.

Key topics in Exercise and Prescription Analysis will include:

Utilizing a Spherical Model for Training Movement

Flexibility/Mobility

• Understanding the role and how to properly create mobility in the foot/ankle complex.
• Unleashing the power of the hips by a 3 dimensional mobilization system.
• Creating a powerful trunk and core through thoracic spine mobility.

Stability/Balance

• Discovering athleticism by coordinating and programming various movement patterns.
• Training Agility by allowing the athlete to authentically function using subconscious abilities.
• Learning and implementing the Vertical Core Training System.

Strength/Power

• Creating clean and powerful Movement through loaded movement training
• Utilizing conventional Load training to build athletic qualities.

Tweaks

There are an infinite number of ways to move. In order to perfect a sport skill or accomplish a movement task, motion can be tweaked to meet the needs of the individual performing it as well as the task. In this section, learn how to break down movements and change them with custom exercises created by you.

The Business of Training

In this section of the Train 4 The Game Mentorship Program you will learn from our nearly decade of experience of operating in various economic climates. Learn and implement the strategies that we utilize to ensure that our business remains profitable and able to continue to serve those in our community.