Science has shown us that there is "no such thing as a natural born athlete." Some persons may have stronger genes then others however being a successful athlete is obtainable by anyone. Although there needs to be an early start in a child's education of physical movement or what we like to call physical literacy. Researchers from Canada and United Kingdom have spent years studying how to improve
their athlete's athletic performance in the Olympics and have solved the mystery by implementing a long term development program which has proven to be their key to success. What they realized is that children, adolescents, teenagers, and professional athletes all have limited time frames to learn specific sport skills, train their body's how to work within different energy systems (anaerobic and aerobic), establish efficient neurological pathways for enhanced speed and strength development, maintain flexibility/suppleness along with many more key athletic attributes. To identify these limited time frames Canada and the UK have focused their attention on the athlete's growth, not the athletes' age. What this has taught them is that every athlete develops at different stages thus not being adequate to train an athlete by their age as an 8 year-old's growth development can range from 6-10 years of age. Canada and UK have also realized that early specialization in a sport plateaus an athlete's arsenal of skills as Einstein has revealed to us by his famous quote: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." This is why we strongly encourage young athletes to be exposed to a multitude of training environments and this is where our program supplements the missing building blocks to excel as an athlete. Live to Excel utilizes a grow-metrics system on all of their trainees every training session. What this enable's us to do is capture the trainees height and weight and enter the data into our data base. The data base will plot and graph the data depicting the trainees developmental stage, as the graph will show changes in the trainees peak height velocity (an example is shown below) making it easily identifiable for our training staff to focus in on the skills needed to learn during this limited time frame.
