Coach Jeremy's Performance Training

Hardin Performance Training

Fitness is the time and effort it takes the body to recover from stress to a resting state; Performance is the execution attained and used during those moments of stress.  This is a performance based system that by default increases the athlete’s fitness levels. 

Sports are not algorithmic activities, they do not have one set of instructions that pathway to a single conclusion.  They are Heuristic in that there are many possibilities that demand creativity to devise a novel solution to each situation.  This system uses Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose to enable each participant to develop their own problem solving skills to overcome movement related obstacles under stressful situations.

Each athlete will develop 6 core characteristics through the process of this system:

1.       Respect for themselves and others

2.       Responsibility to take and answer for their actions

3.       Accountability to their teammates and coaches

4.       Focus under pressure

5.       Compassion for the things we believe in

6.       Authenticity for showing who they are and what they are about

The Legends organization has been extremely influential in helping me as a trainer and coach make the necessary adjustments to my own philosophy that has been developed over the last 12 years.  I credit Eric Henderson as well as the Mark, Pat and Ben whom I have had the pleasure of working with over the past 3 years in helping me integrate with this young and growing club in Northern Kentucky.  I am happy to make my home official with the Legends organization as I have partnered with the club and brought Hardin Performance Training on site at the Legends facility in Burlington.  I am excited and privileged to provide Performance training to the club, and help develop each player as they maximize their potential to compete and find their joy for the game.  I take a page out of Bill Bowerman’s philosophy that I bring to the club:

“Sports are an observed pastime in which we exhaust ourselves on.  My mission is to have every athlete discover meaning in the type of training it takes to prepare themselves to compete in that exhaustion.  If they can find that meaning, then they may find meaning in another observed pastime… life” 

Athletes will go through a process of looking at their bodies in a new way, and discover the natural laws to movement that can aid them in taking the handcuffs off their game as they find a new passion and joy for their sport.  Below is a broken down overview of what your athletes will be exposed to:

1.       Functional Movement Screen with Corrective Exercises:

Each athlete will be given a movement screen that will rate and rank their movement patterns.  Based on the results they will be given basic movement correctives to perform daily at home to help correct the way their brains are operating the movement in question.

2.       Jump Rope Training:

Each athlete will need to purchase their own jump rope and bring them to every session.  The jump rope addresses the widest range of athletic barriers while being one of the safest and functional pieces of fitness equipment.  Athletes will learn rhythm, tempo, ankle-hip-shoulder stability, posture and vastly improve their fitness levels.  By the end of the summer athletes will be asked to jump rope for 5 minutes uninterrupted while holding a beat above 120 jumps per minute.

3.       Power Training:

The ability to promote elastic energy through the kinetic chain is what makes us athletes.  We will be using plyometric, throwing and striking as avenues to teach this reactive skill.  As in all that we do, variety will be used to build well rounded abilities and to keep the athletes reactively guessing to what might be coming next. 

4.       HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training):

The natural law of speed is to convince your body that going faster will be easier for it to do… so by practicing going as fast as you can in a variety of ways your giving your mind the choices it will need to choose the faster alternative. 

5.       Running Form:

Running is the least trained aspect of sports yet is one of the most defining components of performance.  As the legends teach precision skills to be used in big moments in the game, we will break down the running form in drastic details so each athlete can have a detailed understanding of what they can proactively do to increase performance and lower unnecessary wear and tear.