Teen Athletic Outdoor Group
Starting At: $25.00
Outdoor athletic training for ages 13–15, the building phase. Footwork, speed, power, upper body strength, stamina and overall athleticism, developed through the stretch where the body changes fastest and athleticism is either refined or lost through drastic growth and changes in the body.
Pay what you can at or above the minimum. New here? Your first session is free, you can claim it from the schedule before you buy anything.
Details
Teen Athletic is where athletes stop just playing their sport and start training for it. Ages 13 to 15, outdoors, on tracks and open fields across North Austin.
This is the messiest stretch in an athlete’s development. Bodies are changing fast, and the gap between two fourteen-year-olds can be enormous without either of them doing anything wrong. Meanwhile school sport starts selecting, and the pressure to specialize shows up well before most of them have a base worth specializing on.
This is the build phase. A critical growth period for many, coordination has to be anchored to a body that may be a different size in the next 12 months. At the same time, strength training starts returning something it couldn’t at ten, this is the first point where loading the work builds an engine rather than just teaching a shape. Both need to happen together. Doing one without the other is how you end up with a fast kid who can’t hold a position, or a strong kid who can’t move.
Sessions cover:
- Footwork: the feet catching up to a body that grew
- Speed and power: accelerating, jumping, and producing force on demand
- Upper body strength: pressing, pulling and carrying, loaded properly for the age
- Lower body and trunk: squatting, hinging and bracing under real load
- Stamina: conditioning that’s still there at the end of a game, built into the work
On the strength side: appropriately loaded, properly coached resistance training is well established as safe at this age, and it is not the same thing as a fourteen-year-old copying a program off the internet. Load follows technique, never the other way round, and nobody adds weight to a movement they can’t own yet.
Everything is scaled to the athlete in front of us. The same session runs at different loads depending on who’s doing it, an early developer and a late developer each get the version that fits, and neither one is behind. Thirteen sits in both this group and Youth Athletic, and fifteen sits in both this group and HS Elite; we place athletes by where they are, not by their birthday.
How it works. Your first session is free, and you can claim it straight from the schedule before you buy anything. After that, buy a pack of 4, 8 or 12 credits and pay what you can at or above the minimum. One credit books one session, and credits are good for 60 days. The same pack works at any of our outdoor groups, so if your athlete also wants a Speed Session, there’s nothing separate to buy.
Bring water, a mat, regular athletic shoes, and clothes for the weather.