Teen Strength & Jump Training Indoor Group
Starting At: $25.00
Strength, jump and speed development for teen athletes. Getting stronger is what makes an athlete jump higher and run faster, we build the strength, then teach it to arrive quickly. Built for volleyball and basketball players, and for any athlete who wants to be harder to keep up with.
Pay what you can at or above the minimum. New here? Your first session is free, claim it from the schedule before you buy anything.
Details
Strength is the engine. Jumping and sprinting are what it sounds like.
An athlete jumps by putting force into the ground. They accelerate by doing the same thing pointed forward instead of up. A jump and a sprint are not two skills, they are one quality aimed in different directions, which is why they rise and fall together, and why an athlete who cannot produce force has nothing to express quickly.
That is why drills alone stop working after the first few months, and why the athletes who keep improving are the ones who got stronger in between. This group trains both halves: the strength that makes force possible, and the jumping and sprinting that teach it to arrive fast enough to matter.
What a session involves
Strength scaled to a growing athlete, squatting, hinging, pushing, pulling and carrying, loaded when the movement earns it and not before.
Jumping: approach mechanics, bounds, hops, med ball throws, and the half almost no athlete has ever been coached: how to land. Landing gets as much attention here as takeoff. Most non-contact knee injuries in jumping sports happen on the way down, and an athlete who can decelerate under control is both better and safer.
Sprinting: acceleration mechanics, posture, and applying that same force over ground instead of height. The positions that make a first step faster are the positions that make a jump bigger.
Who this is for
Volleyball and basketball players first, because their sports are decided in the air and a vertical is the number they get measured on. But the same work serves a sprinter, a defensive back, a soccer player, a catcher coming out of a crouch. None of these are separate qualities being trained separately, an athlete who gets stronger and learns to express it quickly gets better at their sport, whatever shape that sport takes.
You do not need to already jump well or run fast. You need to be willing to be coached on things you have been doing your own way for years.
If you are wondering whether teenagers should be lifting
It is the question we get most and it is a fair one. Coached resistance training is one of the better-supported things a young athlete can do: it builds the strength everything else draws on, and it makes bodies more resistant to the loads their sport already puts on them.
What causes problems is not the barbell. It is loading a movement nobody taught, chasing a number in front of friends, and doing it with nobody watching. All three are exactly what a coached session prevents. We start with what an athlete can control, add load when the movement earns it, and we are not in a hurry.
Measure it, then train it
Speed and vertical jump are two of the few things in sport you can put a hard number on, which means you can prove they moved. Test at the start of a block, train through it, retest and watch the numbers change. An athlete who can see their own numbers climbing trains differently than one who is told they are improving.
For parents
- Every athlete under 18 needs a parent or guardian to sign the waiver before the first session. It takes a minute on a phone and the link arrives with your confirmation email.
- A coach is with the group for the whole session, and coaches stay until every athlete has been collected.
- Bring trainers they can move in and a full water bottle. Everything else is ours to carry.
- Parents are always welcome to stay and watch.
Pay what you can, and how booking works
Every pack has a suggested price and a minimum, and you choose any amount at or above the minimum. Nobody is ever asked to explain the number they picked. Cost has never been the reason a family sits out, and that has not changed.
Buy your sessions, then book the times online. Sessions sit on your account until they are used, and current days and locations are always live on the schedule.
How this fits with everything else
Our outdoor groups train speed and agility across the board, sprinting, changing direction, landing. This group goes narrower and heavier: the strength underneath those qualities, and the jumping and acceleration that strength turns into. If an athlete needs undivided attention instead, or a block built around heavy barbell work, that is one-on-one or semi-private in the studio. Plenty of athletes do both.