Performance Training for Roots Athletes
Outright coaches the physical side of the game at the Roots clubhouse, jumping, landing, hitting power, and shoulders that hold up across a long club season.
Outright provides athletic performance training for Roots athletes. We don’t coach volleyball skills, we help develop athleticism, power, and make durable athletes that can perform at a high level all season.
What We Work On
Jump and land
The Two Halves of a Vertical
Everyone trains the jump. Far fewer train the landing, which is where knees get hurt and where a season quietly ends. We build both, force production going up, and the ability to absorb it coming down, repeated hundreds of times a match.
Hitting power
Power Starts at the Hips
A hard swing is not an arm. It is the hips and trunk transferring force into the shoulder, and an athlete who cannot hold that position leaks power on every attack. Core and hip strength, trained in the positions the game actually puts them in.
Durability
Shoulders That Last the Season
Volleyball asks the same shoulder for the same thing thousands of times across a club season. Banded upper-body work and mobility aimed at the tissue that takes that load, plus the ankles and hips underneath it, so an athlete is still whole at the end of the calendar.
What Workouts Look Like
Sessions run at the Roots clubhouse, which means we train the way the space allows: bodyweight, resistance bands, jump and landing work, and movement drills at the distances a court actually uses.
The qualities that decide a season here, how high you get off the floor, how well you absorb the landing, whether your hips can hold a hitting position, whether your shoulder survives the season, are trainable without a full gym setup.
Which Athletes Train With Us
Roots arranges and pays for sessions with the teams in its national program, so for those athletes this training is already part of what the club provides. Nothing to book and nothing extra to pay.
If your athlete plays for Roots but is not on one of those teams, you can still train with us. Book directly, in a small group with teammates, one-on-one, or through anything else below. Same coaches, same work.
Beyond Team Workouts
Everything below is optional and booked directly with us by individual families, whichever Roots team your athlete plays for.
Most popular
Train With Your Teammates
A private pod is a closed session for a group you bring, two to six athletes, same faces every week, nobody else booking in. A few teammates who want more than the team block gets is exactly what a pod is for, and you pay one price for the pod and split it however you like.
- One price for the group
- Same athletes every session
Measurement
Performance Testing
Speed, agility, and vertical measured properly, one-on-one, with video analysis and a written read on what to work on. Test before the season, mid-season, and again at the end, and you have something better than an opinion about whether the work paid off. Useful in a recruiting conversation, also.
Off-season
Programming Between Seasons
The gap between seasons is when athletes either build or lose what they gained. We write remote programming for athletes who want structure through the off-season, or who are travelling for tournaments. This is great for the self-motivated ones.
Not a Roots Athlete?
You do not have to play for Roots to train with us. The work below is the same work, wherever your athlete plays.
Any club, any sport
Outdoor Athletic Groups
Small outdoor groups around North Austin for athletes 14 and up: jumping, landing, speed, and the strength work underneath them. Volleyball players train alongside athletes from every other sport, because at this age the qualities are the same. The first session is free.
One athlete
One-on-One Coaching
A private session built around one athlete, in our studio in North Austin, at your own team’s facility, or outdoors. The right choice for an athlete coming back from an injury, chasing a specific number, or with a club schedule that will not bend. Parents of minors are always welcome to stay.
Your own team
Bring Us to Your Club
We work with clubs and teams the same way we work with Roots, at your facility, priced per session for the whole roster rather than per athlete, and built around your season. If you coach or run a program, that conversation starts here.
Questions Parents Ask
Is this included in what we already pay Roots? For national teams, yes, the club arranges and pays for those sessions. For every other Roots athlete, training with us is booked directly and paid separately. Pods, testing and off-season programming are always separate for everyone.
Is this a strength program? It is athletic performance training. We work at the clubhouse with bands, bodyweight and jump equipment rather than barbells, and we build the qualities that decide a volleyball season, jumping, landing, hip and core strength, shoulder durability, and mobility. If your athlete also wants heavy barbell work, that is a good thing to add and we can help guide.
Will more training make my athlete tired for matches? That is a real risk and we manage it. In-season work is built to keep athletes durable without adding fatigue to a tournament week. If an athlete is doing extra with us, we plan around the club calendar rather than on top of it.
Do you work with athletes outside the club? Yes, we coach athletes from every sport in small outdoor groups around North Austin, one-on-one in our private studio, and at an athlete’s own team facility. Being at the Roots clubhouse is one part of what we do.
Want More for Your Athlete?
Tell us your athlete’s age, position, which team or club they play for, and what you are hoping to change, jump height, hitting power, staying healthy through the season. We will tell you which option fits.