Speed Boosters Football SPARQ Training Top 10

Congrats to all of the football players that completed 6 weeks of SPARQ training. The results that were obtained are a testament to what a well designed program based on research and a strong work ethic can accomplish. Below are the "Top 10" SPARQ ratings with the increase each athlete saw in their SPARQ rating from the first week of training.

1.)Mike Heumann - 110.25 (Increase 56.76)
2.)Robert Pratt- 108.27 (Increase 37.35)
3.)Randy Emilien -85.5 (Increase 20.10)
4.)Sean Alexander- 81.33 (Increase 34.83)
5.)Sam Smith- 77.16 (Increase 26.91)
6.)Steve Wiley- 75.36 (Increase 22.16)
7.)Ryan Campbell- 74.58 (Increase 38.01)
8.)Garth Shermann- 71.94 (Increase 29.88)
9.)Kyle Portell- 69.36 (Increase 32.22)
10.)Dylan Bannecke- 67.14 (Increase 31.11)

Again, congrats to all that trained this summer and good luck as you enter your fall seasons.

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Fall & Winter Training Sessions Announced

It's been a while since I had the opportunity to post to the blog. So far it has been a crazy summer full of camps, training, and SPARQ testing hundreds of athletes within the St. Louis area. I have also been working on several projects with SPARQ that I will hopefully have more info on soon. We just recently completed our summer training sessions and had some unbelievable results. I will post the top SPARQ results soon. Many have inquired about our fall and winter SPARQ training schedule at St. Louis Baseball & Fastpitch Academy. I have provided our schedule below for those that are interested in increasing their on field performance. If you are interested in SPARQ team training or having your team SPARQ tested please feel free to contact me at sean.erwin@speedboosters.net . Speed Boosters is dedicated to helping individual athletes and teams achieve their goals and can come to your practice to train or SPARQ test your athletes. TRAIN BETTER, TRAIN SPEED BOOSTERS!

FALL SESSION
(Begins August 25th)
Nike SPARQ Training Sessions
Days: Monday & Wednesday
Times: 7:00-7:45 p.m.
Location: St. Louis Baseball & Fastpitch Academy
Cost: $10 per session
Open Enrollment- Attend on days and times of your choice

WINTER SESSION
(Begins November 3rd)
Nike SPARQ Training
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Times: 5:30-6:15, 6:15-7:00 p.m.
Location: St. Louis Baseball & Fastpitch Academy
Cost: $10 per session
Open Enrollment- Attend on days and times of your choice

Is Your Better Really Better?

What are you doing this summer to increase your performance? Speed, Power, Agility, Reaction, and Quickness are vital to every sport. Athletes are not born with these attributes, they are developed. Through a well designed functional training program you can take your game to the next level and make your better even better.
Speed Boosters, a leader in sports performance training, offers Nike SPARQ training and functional sports training sessions to improve your on field performance. The sessions are geared towards middle, high school, college, and pro athletes who want to maximize and reach their full potential. Training sessions will enhance speed, power, agility, reaction, quickness, flexibility, and improve fundemental movement skills while aiding in injury prevention.
Speed Boosters uses your SPARQ rating to develop an individualized training program aimed at improving your sport specific performance. Make your on field performance better! For more information on Nike SPARQ training with Speed Boosters visit http://www.speedboosters.net/ or email sean.erwin@speedboosters.net

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Metro United SPARQ Testing

Today myself and the Speed Boosters staff headed out to the Metro United Soccer Complex in Collinsville, Illinois to do the first piece of the SPARQ Test before the U 15/16 and U 17/18 teams head up to the Development Academy Spring Showcase in Rockford, Illinois May 23-26. Dale Schilly has a great program going and just a great group of kids in the program.
Today the players were having their height and weight measured as well as running the YIRT 2 Test. The YIRT 2 Test is designed to test the players endurance and recovery capacity. Both teams today had several players score at or above the 90th percentile. I was impressed by the conditioning levels of the guys.
On May 23-26th they will take the second portion of the SPARQ Test. Below are the specific tests in the Soccer SPARQ Test as well as what each test is measuring.

20 Meter Sprint - Speed - measures linear speed and high end running
Arrowhead Agility - Agility - measures speed, agility, and change of directon
Vertical Jump - Power - measures explosive power
YIRT 2 - Endurance - measures endurance and recovery capacity

For more information on SPARQ and U.S. Soccer check out www.sparqtraining.com or http://ussoccer.com

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Grizzlies Open Try-Out

This moring I was out at the Gateway Grizzlies open try out at GCS Ballpark. I was there to time the 30's and 60's of the players. Using the SPARQ XLR8 Cones makes this process so easy and accurate. Using the cones I was able to get split times. This makes large testings and assessments so much more efficient because your killing two birds with one stone. With 1 sprint I was able to get the 30 and 60 times of each athlete. The best 30 time today was a 3.64 while the best 60 was a 6.8.
Every player in attendance regardless of their time had one thing in common, poor running mechanics. It is amazing that athletes can make it to such a high level of play with very little knowledge or previous training mainly with running mechanics. These athletes could greatly improve on field performance by improving their running mechanics. In baseball, 1/10th of a second off your 30 time is 1-2 steps down the first base line. Over the course of a season how many times is a player thrown out by 1-2 steps at first? How many times could a ground ball or fly ball have been caught if you had 1 or 2 more steps? Now you can see how important speed is in the game of baseball. In future blog postings I will take a step by step approach to form running so that you can improve your speed and on field performance.

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Fastpitch Clinics

It's been a busy and crazy week since my last post but I just wanted to keep everyone informed of another great camp opportunity this summer. Scott Sullivan, owner of St. Louis Baseball and Fastpitch Academy will be offering one day fastpitch clinics every Wednesday in June. The clinics will be offered to girls ages 10U - 18U and will offer some of the best instructors and college coaches in the area.

The clinic includes the following:
Softball 2.0 SPARQ Testing by Speed Boosters
Arm Strength & Throwing Evaluation
Bat Speed & Mechanics Checklist
CD Highlighting Clinic Events
Lunch
T-Shirt & Prizes

Special Guest Instructors:
June 4th - Kim Schuette, Eastern Illinois University
June 11th - Craig Nicholson, Ball State University, Chicago Bandits
June 18th - Rich Sturm, Oakville High School
June 25th - TBA

Clinic Instructors:
Scott Sullivan
Jim Greiner
Randi Null
SLU, Mizzou, Kansas, Ball State, & Bradley Players

For more information on the fastpitch clinics visit www.stlacademy.com

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Summer Training

Does your training need a SPARQ? We will be offering several options for athletes who are interested in increasing their athletic performance. Listed below are several options for training with us this summer. We also do group and team SPARQ Training and SPARQ Testing sessions and will come to your facility or practice. Check back often for more offerings.

New Summer Training Sessions begin June 9th.

SPARQ Training Sessions
Days: Monday and Friday
Times: 9:00-9:45, 9:45-10:30, 10:30-11:15
Location: St. Louis Baseball & Fastpitch Academy
Cost: $10 per session
Open Enrollment- Attend on days and times of your choice

Female Functional Strength Training w/SPARQ Training Sessions
Days: Monday & Friday
Times: 9:00-10:30, 9:45-11:15
Location: St. Louis Baseball & Fastpitch Academy
Cost: $15 per session

Open Enrollment- Attend on days and times of your choice

For more information contact:
sean.erwin@speedboosters.net

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