Jan. 9, 2010
UCLA's Athletic Performance Staff would like to invite you, your staff, and your athletes to the 2nd Annual Southern California Strength & Conditioning Camp and Clinic. The coaches' clinic, presented by PowerLift, is designed to help improve your coaching and teaching methods in strength and conditioning. The featured coaching staff and presenters will teach you the importance of dynamic warm-ups, speed and agility training, how to build explosive athletes, and proper weight room technique.
The clinic will also feature several vendors on hand to talk to you about products that can be beneficial to your programs, such as: PowerLift, Muscle Milk, Advanced Exercise Equipment, Keiser, Gilman Gear, Cross Core Inc., Power Balance, Samson, Sport Chalet, and adidas. You will have the opportunity to see firsthand how these products work and how they can help improve your team's strength and conditioning.
NEW this year is the athlete's camp, presented by Muscle Milk. We will teach your athletes all of the techniques the UCLA coaching staff uses to improve our athletes on a daily basis. While you're in the classroom and weight room learning about these techniques, your athletes will be on the practice field and in the weight room actually developing the skills we teach you, with an emphasis on the proper technique. This is a great opportunity for your whole team to vastly improve in the area or strength, speed and conditioning. Come as a group of 15 or more and you each receive $25 off of your registration.
This is a perfect time for any kind of athlete to gain an advantage on their competition. Athletic Performance Head Coach Mike Linn (UCLA '93) and his staff have specifically designed a camp tailored for all types of coaches and athletes, whether your sport is football, soccer, track & field, baseball, basketball, or even volleyball. "More times than not, what separates great athletes from average athletes is their level of preparation," Coach Linn said. "This is certainly true on the college level. UCLA athletes' dedication to improving their speed, agility, strength and conditioning during their `off-season' is critical to their individual success and ultimate team success."
This is a great opportunity to get exposed to the types of training that college and professional athletes get every day. Participants will be taken through a multitude of on field exercises and drills teaching them proper speed mechanics, as well as strength and power movements in the weight room. Speed will be broken down into three components: acceleration, max velocity, and agility. Acceleration drills will focus on improving first-step quickness and a faster, more powerful, first 8-10 steps. Max velocity exercises will concentrate on achieving top speed more quickly as well as maintaining it longer. Agility drills will focus on the most efficient and effective ways to change direction.
The Strength and Power portion of the camp will concentrate on proper technique of various performance improving exercises, including the Olympic lifts, squats and various core exercises. The Olympic lifts are very technical lifts that are important for athletes to master in order to improve explosiveness. The squats will be broken down into both double-leg and single-leg movements which are both essential for overall strength and injury prevention. The third focus will be on teaching core which is a big key to developing the power control of the entire body.
Come learn how to train from the top Athletic Performance staff in the country. This clinic will have you walking away with new drills and skills that have helped UCLA athletes win over 100 national championships, tops in collegiate athletics. If your goal is to take your training and your performance to the next level, this camp is for you. Great athletes not only work on the sport skills, but also work on developing speed, power, and strength that their opponents don't have. Don't sit around all summer waiting for the season; join us and take your performance to the next level.