Edge Athletic Performance

19/03/2025

15/03/2025

🚨 Get Ready for Edge Athletic Performance’s Easter Speed School! 🚨

Is your 11-18 year old looking to take their athletic performance to the next level? 🏃‍♂️💨

Our popular Speed School is back and better than ever! This program is designed to develop strength, speed, acceleration, and high-speed running mechanics —all led by our team of highly experienced coaches.

🌟 What to Expect:

- Professional coaching
- Assessments to discover areas for development
- Drills and techniques to improve high-speed running
- Strength training tailored for young athletes
- A supportive, fun and motivating environment

Whether your athlete plays football, rugby, basketball, or any sport that requires explosive speed, this program will help them sharpen their skills and gain a competitive edge!

📅 When: 9th April
📍 Where: Northampton School for Boys

Spots are limited, so don’t wait! Sign your athlete up today and watch them sprint past their goals!

Email [email protected] or DM for all of the information you need.⚡

Each attendee will receive an Edge Athletic T-Shirt!

18/10/2024

26/09/2024

Spot the difference ⁉️

Valgus knee collapse where the knee caves inwards during movements like running and jumping, is a common issue in young athletes, particularly in sports requiring sudden changes of direction ⚽️🏀🎾🏉🏑

This improper alignment puts extra stress on the knee joint, increasing the risk of ACL tears, patellar injuries, and long term joint damage.

Key prevention strategies:

1. Get stronger around glutes, hamstrings and quadriceps ✅

2. Neuromuscular training, including balance and proprioception exercises to help young athletes maintain knee control during dynamic movements ✅

3. Proper technique: Coaches should emphasise proper landing, jumping and cutting techniques ✅

4. Flexibility: stretching tight muscles around hips and ankles helps improve mobility and alignment ✅

Proactive training is key to reducing injury risk and enhancing performance 💪🏼👍🏼

At Edge we focus on all of the above to help build efficient, robust young athletes and we always use technical proficiency as the yardstick for improvement and progress.

Places still available for our athletic development classes, every Wednesday 17.30 at Northampton School for Boys.

DM for details.

11/09/2024

Parent Testimonials 😀🥰

Take a look at what the parents are saying about our youth athletic development sessions.

It is really important to us at Edge that we create a training environment that is challenging and will push the young athletes but that this is achieved in a safe and enjoyable way.

Our sessions start again on the 18th September. Email with your child’s name, age and sports played to book a place.

[email protected]

28/08/2024

Foot Strike 🦶 🏃‍♀️ 🏃🏻‍♂️

During speed school we progressed our box jumps to reactive hurdle jumps.

This gave the youth athletes the opportunity to work on how they strike the floor before we went on the pitch. This is really important for high speed running.

We were looking for a strong mid foot strike to load the legs rather than being to high on toes and losing all of the energy you get back from the floor.

Our term time sessions will be starting again soon, follow our Instagram profile for more information.

25/08/2024

“What happens next”?! 🤔

Often we perform movements and exercises in isolation and don’t consider the outcome and context of what the next movement could be.

When coaching jumps we want to land in a position that allows us to repeat another jump or another athletic action….. a side step, a sprint, a tackle etc

So we coach not only the best landing position but also the mindset and intention to perform further movements.

It’s important to consider these movements, not only in isolation, but more how they link together in a series of meaningful interactions.

To learn more about our course please DM us and we would be happy to help.

18/08/2024

Applying Strength to Speed 🏋🏻🏃🏻‍♂️

This single leg RDL to box is great for applying the strength we gain in compound exercises to more dynamic and running specific movements.

- Actively lift the back leg ✅
- Step over the knee to A-Stance ✅
- Drive down into the box ✅
- Positive shin angle ✅

We still have spaces for our next Speed School on Wednesday 21st August at Northampton School for Boys.

We will be covering Strength Training for speed development in our morning session and then working on high speed running and acceleration techniques in our afternoon session.

Sessions are specific to 16-18 year olds and for all sports.

To learn more email [email protected] to register your interest.

17/08/2024

Fancy a chance of winning a free spot on our Speed School course this Wednesday?? 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃‍♂️💨

All you have got to do is

1. Like this post
2. Share it to your social media pages
3. Tag someone in who has a 16-18 year old child who would be interested in taking part

The winner of the free spot will be announced and contacted on Monday evening‼️

This is a great opportunity not to be missed so get tagging and sharing 👍🏼👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼🙏🙏

To learn more about our courses email [email protected]