ATHLETIC STRENGTH AND POWER: ASAP PROGRAMS

Sports Performance Training in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky

Rocky Boiman (Philadelphia Eagles) performing a set of manual neck exercises at ASAP @ The River's Edge on Cincinnati's west side in Cleves Ohio. Ted Lambrinides provides the manual resistance in a three dimensional, functional training movement that's ground based.

Digger Bujnoch (New York Giants) busting out a sets of squats. ASAP's Doug Monaghan spots.

ASAP not only stands for Athletic Strength And Power, it also is stands for the high intensity training of athletes using many modalities. Acceleration training, speed training, endurance training, agility and quickness training, explosive training..... interval training and functional training... it's all done at the ASAP sports performance centers. And of course, few facilities can match ASAP in the strength training and conditioning of athletes. Furthermore, functional biomechanics is employed to provide the athletes with increased balance and kinesthetic awareness. Bands and tubing, plyometrics, balance and stabilization training, medicine ball training. It's all part of The WORKOUT.

That's why athletes from many different sports can fit right in at THE WORKOUT.

Call 513-240-7311 or shoot us an email: ASAPtheWorkout@gmail.com

Get to The Next Level!

6'10 European professional basketball player, Chris Ensminger (Bamberg/Bundesliga) finishing off some delt work with a set of side lateral raises with the Power Blocks.

July 05, 2008 in ASAP PROGRAMS, Football Combine Information, SPEED TRAINING, Strength Training & Conditioning | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Saturday Morning Sports Conditioning

"ASAP......... When You Need Results ASAP"

Conditioning-Speed-Agility Training

Where? CovCath High School (click for directions)
When? 9:30am (arrive early for extra flexibility training)
What to bring? Desire and plenty of cold Gatorade or Water
Who? Those in pursuit of the next level!
Gassers
We recently conducted one of our Saturday morning training sessions. These sessions are usually sprinkled with a blend of professional (NFL), College (Ohio State, Purdue, Boston College, Ball State, etc) and High School athletes. Many of these athletes, both men and women, are elite and in exceptional physical condition. And furthermore, they are presently on a strength training and conditioning program that's under the guidance of Ted Lambrinides PhD, Director of The Workout@Covington, just across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio in the shadows of Paul Brown Stadium.

The training sessions always begin with a Dynamic Warm-up. This would include many or all of the following exercises:
Half Speed 50yd jogs

Back Pedals 4x10yds

Three step walking Lunge w/twist 1x 15yds and return

3 step Squat grab back of ankles...repeat ....1x 15 yds and return

walking side lunge

walk 3 steps: hands to turf: alternate legs back as high as possible

Then, we progress to the real deal.... the heart of the workout. The Interval Training Segment. Don't eat very much at all prior to attending these sessions and bring plenty of chilled sports drinks!!

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The Workout

Here's a sample of one of the Saturday morning sessions at CovCath Football Stadium in Covington, Kentucky. The training sessions are best done on a lined football field and we prefer running on Field Turf, which is a very nice surface and easy on the knees and other joints.

The training sessions have been designed to utilize the latest advances of exercise physiology..... and if performed regularly, can propel athletes to the next level.

On this particular training session we used what's known as Gassers. A "Gasser" is performed by starting on the sideline, sprinting across the field and touching the opposite sideline with your foot...then returning to the original sideline, touch that line with your foot and then repeat. One Gasser is equal to approximately 213yds of building speed and then decelerating. A Half Gasser is a sprint across the field and then back.

6x full gassers (1280yds)

9x half gassers (960yds)

10x 10yd backward runs (100yds)

shuffles

carioca

lunges

flexibility

agility ladder

3x 200 yd shuttles (down the field and back) 60 secs till next shuttle starts (600yds)

mirror drills...+ 60sec squat

Check our YouTube Video of a Half Gasser

June 13, 2008 in ASAP PROGRAMS, Conditioning Schedule, Speed Development | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Jacksonville Jaguars Coach Mark Asanovich visits ASAP The Workout @ Covington

The Head Strength Coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Mark Asanovich, made a visit to The Workout at Covington. Also making the trip was assistant strength coach Les Ebert who, according to Asanovich, is destined to be a head strength coach in the NFL one day. Both coaches were very impressed with the ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power training center located in Covington, Kentucky....... just minutes from downtown Cincinnati. Coach Asanovich and ASAP Director Ted Lambrinides were able to discuss the preparation and process used by ASAP to get prospects ready for the NFL Combine. Asanovich and Ebert were en route to Indianapolis for the annual event where college football players are invited for an an all encompassing evaluation, both physical and psychological.
Lambrinides and Asanovich also reviewed training program design and how best to prepare prospective athletes for the NFL Combine before the three headed to Indianapolis.