Programs & Equipment

        Super Treadmill

        Plyo Press

        Pro Multi Hip

        Plyo Platform

        Cord Technology

        Hockey Treadmill

·  Programs average 2-3 days per week (dependent on age), but all programs are individualized.

·  Most programs are 12-26 sessions with the first and last day consisting of pre and post-evaluations.

·  This is an individualized sports performance training using the best trainers, equipment, facilities and protocols available anywhere. There can be up to five people training/hour but programs are individualized.

·  In a typical program, a mix of incline treadmill running, agility, plyometrics and acceleration work are used to develop optimal movement patterns and explosive power.

·  We are able to teach proper sprinting mechanics in a unique way that will help an athlete for the rest of his/her life. The speed development is done on our inclined treadmills where the athletes perform short bouts of exercise that replicate the energy requirements of sport. Our experienced coaches are able to correct the athletes form easily because, while running in front of a mirror, we are able to see all angles of the athlete and give immediate corrective feedback.

·  Proper form can drastically enhance speed, both initially and long term.

·  Most programs also include plyometrics, power, quickness and multi-directional agility work. We use drills to enhance starting, stopping, and change of direction to give the athlete optimal foot quickness.

·  Scheduling is flexible; you pick your days and times. Optimally, you want a day between sessions to fully recover from the training. It is best to schedule in advance to make sure you get the days and times you want. For most programs, we give you 10 weeks to finish your program which allows extra time in case of illness, vacations, etc.

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 and flexibility; 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.

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 Anaerobic 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 Frappier 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.

Increased Proprioception, Improved Body Composition & Enhanced Self-Esteem

Gains in each of these areas come directly or indirectly from completing the Frappier Acceleration Running Program. And each, in turn, can contribute to an athlete's gain in speed and overall success.

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.

Results
When you train on the Frappier 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, and a decrease of .20 of a second in a 40-yard sprint.

Based on the same physiological principles that have been used to train thousands of athletes around the world with the Frappier Acceleration Sports Training Programs, the Recreational Athlete Program is tailored to fit an individual's fitness level as well as designed to be enjoyable and productive so that you can work out, see positive results and still be able to perform the activities of the day.

The Recreational Athlete Program was created to target improvements in:

• Increased flexibility
• Increased cardiovascular endurance and speed
• Improved muscular coordination patterns
• Injury prevention
• Positive self image, satisfaction and overall wellness

Rehabilitation Program

Orthopedic surgeons, physical and occupational therapists, athletic trainers and exercise physiologists have all had important roles in developing our Rehabilitation Program, with the protocol continually reviewed and evaluated as we accumulate data from over 45 Frappier Acceleration medical-based facilities. As with our other Programs, this medically-based protocol is combined with patented technology to optimize sport-specific and traditional rehabilitation activities.

Safety

The ACL Bridge Program is to provide a safe intervention for ACL patients transitioning from traditional physical therapy around 12-16 weeks post-operative.

Results
After you are done with physical therapy you are still not ready to return to your sport. This Program will get you there! It bridges the gap between being functional and being ready to play a sport. Our goal is to transition the patient into full recreational and functional activity without any limitations.

Resistance Cord Programs

What's the key to success in athletics? It's complicated, but it's attainable by maximizing your workouts. Frappier Acceleration Sports Training Cord Programs incorporate our protocols and special training cords into sport-specific training, so athletes can improve skills and maximize their potential. That's the key benefit that our training Programs offer today's athletes. By taking the time to understand the components that lead to success in each sport, we've developed specific, patented technology that helps athletes work smarter — not just harder — to attain success.

Plyometrics Program

Almost all team sports involving the offense and defense playing against one another require multi-directional movements. The ability to adapt to directional changes as quickly as possible while maintaining body control is essential and must be developed through practice. That's where our Plyometrics Program comes in. Designed to work in conjunction with our other Programs or as stand-alone training, the plyometrics Program involves a variety of footwork drills and special exercises that enhance an athlete's ability to change directions quickly and explosively. Through specialized equipment such as our multi-layered Plyo Platform, athletes perform these drills in a variety of directions that mimic the multi-directional movements found in most sports. By training the feet, legs, hips and torso to maintain these various positions and transition to other positions, participants optimize their potential to excel on the field or court.

Generation II Super Treadmill

This specialized treadmill provides a speed range from 0-28 miles per hour and is capable of an incline up to 40 percent and decline to 10 percent. Raised and lowered hydraulically, these unique treadmills are designed to help athletes improve their speed while reducing force at the knee upon foot strike. By elevating the grade, runners automatically learn to maintain forceful knee drive, proper pelvic position, high foot carry-through and full extension with every stride. Its subsurface was designed from interchangeable polymers to provide additional shock absorption. The treadmill also has a specially-designed spotting mechanism and handlebar for backward running. The attributes of incline running, combined with the safety of increased shock absorption, provide the opportunity for repeated exercises under ideal conditions to improve stride length.

Plyo Press

The Plyo Press is a machine designed for the distinctive combination of leg strength training and plyometrics. No other device helps athletes achieve the unique benefit of building strength in ways that also benefit speed. The greatest muscle activity happens in dynamic exercise such as jumping. The Plyo Press is much more effective than other lower-extremity-strengthening exercises such as squats and leg press devices like the hip sled.

This machine allows injured athletes the opportunity to start their rehabilitation and range of motion exercises before they are fully weight bearing.

• Provides the standard press movement
• Allows dynamic movement of jumping
• Eliminates the hazards of squat and leg press exercises
• Allows the safest possible training without stressing lower back or knee joints with a controlled weight load

Pro Multi-Hip

The Pro Multi-Hip is a lower extremity exercise device for hip flexion or extension exercises and abduction and adduction exercises. It has the capacity to function as a very high-intensity, high-loading exercise machine for healthy athletes and as a very low-intensity, low-loading station for rehabilitation of both the hip girdle and lower extremity.Core muscle groups include:

• Upper/lower abdomen
• Lower back
• Front and back of the hips
• Inside and outside of the upper legs  

If your core muscle groups are not strong, you are not as fast, quick or mobile as you can be. Hip extensors initiate maximal force production into the ground, and hip flexor strength has been reported in scientific literature to be the number one limiting factor to sprint speed development. The Pro Multi-Hip optimizes hip extensor and hip flexor strength development. In addition, as the abductors and adductors provide stability about the hip girdle and are keys to change of direction movements, the Pro Multi-Hip provides a dynamic avenue to optimize this development.

Plyo Platform

Our multi-layered Plyo Platform brings safety and state-of-the-art technique to plyometric jump exercises. With SprintCord technology built into its frame, the Plyo Platform is the only plyometric device that recruits the hip flexors, extensors, abductors and adductors during actual athletic movements. Flexors and extensors are strengthened for forward and reverse speed. The Plyo Platform is ideal for sport-specific training. Repositioning the SprintCords and altering the patterns of movement within our four-vector formation can create 52 different load combinations to the lower extremity, making it possible to create precise regimens designed for specific results.  With the Plyo Platform, athletes develop keen body awareness, strength, agility and fast response rates. Contact-sport athletes can quickly outmaneuver competitors. Others can respond instantly to ball location, changing field conditions and competitor positions.  

Our Cord Programs implement the use of various resistance cords for sport-specific training. The use of our cord technology enhances your workouts by providing resistance to upper and lower body extremities, building more powerful motions for sprinting, jumping, kicking, throwing, hitting, swinging or other sport-specific motions.

• SprintCords
• PowerCord^TM
• ThrowingCord^TM
• HittingCord^TM/Harness
• KickingCord^TM

The SprintCords are patented, lower extremity, resistance-training cords implemented during running or hockey Program sessions and during floor work.

SprintCords enable proprioceptive recruitment of the specific neuromusculature associated with sprinting (on land or ice) and other related motions. Athletes can build powerful motions for sprinting, jumping, kicking or other sport-specific motion.

The PowerCord^TM is a patented training aid that utilizes cords to provide upper extremity resistance to the arms, trunk and shoulders for better movements in sports such as hockey, basketball, volleyball and baseball/softball.

Along with a specialized-training protocol, the PowerCord^TM helps build sport-specific power skills such as shooting, throwing and hitting. PowerCords are used in conjunction with the sport-specific training protocols for volleyball, baseball/softball, basketball and hockey. Athletes looking for improvement in any sport-specific movement utilizing the upper extremities will benefit from using the PowerCord^TM.

Our patented KickingCord^TM engages the specific recruitment of all muscles involved in kicking, developing optimal kicking mechanics and concentric and eccentric strength - which contribute to a successful Program, with documented results in NFL place-kickers and punters. Athletes in soccer and the martial arts benefit as well.

Optimizing the mechanics taught by coaches, the hitting Program, utilizing the HittingCord^TM/Harness, recruits all muscles involved in swinging a bat, a golf club or a tennis racquet to develop greater swing speed and hip rotation. Players from the youth to professional levels are using this training technology to achieve excellent results for baseball, softball and golf.

Our patented KickingCord^TM engages the specific recruitment of all muscles involved in kicking, developing optimal kicking mechanics and concentric and eccentric strength - which contribute to a successful Program, with documented results in NFL place-kickers and punters. Athletes in soccer and the martial arts benefit as well.

The Hockey Treadmill, coupled with your trainer and the mirror in which you can see your progress, sets you up to play at game speed for a longer period with more power and agility than your opponent. It’s the perfect ice-like surface, designed to train you from the inside out—neurologically, metabolically and biomechanically—so that you can become a more efficient skater. You train in your skates, just as if you were on ice.

Our scientific research shows that incline treadmill skating recruits key muscles at a level two to three times higher than rink skating at the same stride frequency, which helps you produce more power during each stride, during both push-off and recovery. We continually test your progress and help you refine your stride. The treadmill also allows us to safely take you beyond what you can do on the ice—so you learn to skate faster and improve your efficiency and conditioning. This translates to success on the ice.