July 4 - August 25, 2017
Days and Times: There are 2 sessions offered:
Session #1) Track Monday 3:00-4:00 pm. Strength Tues/Thurs 3:00-4:00 pm
Session #2) Track Monday 4:00-5:00 pm. Strength Tues/Thurs 4:00-5:00 pm
NOTE: If there is few athletes that attend the Monday running sessions, then one running session for MOnday's will be re-scheduled, based on all participants'availability.
End ot he session testing: During the final week of the Summer Session there will complimentary formalized testing for all athletes registered in the Vigour Summer Session on Tuesday August 22nd from 3:00-5:00 PM and Thursday August 24th from 3:00-5:00 PM consisting of anthropometry (Height/Weight/Wingspan) and the following 4 tests: Max Vert Jump (lower body power), T-Test (agility), 40 m sprint (max speed) and Beep Test (max aerobic output). PLEASE CHOOSE WHICH DAY YOU WILL ATTEND WHEN PROMPTED DURING REGISTRATION PROCESS.
The Vigour Athlete Development Program provides a solid long-term foundation, decreases the risk of injury, and ingrains a 'sport for life' and healthy living philosophy. The program will enhance the young athlete's strength and speed with a focus on exercise technique and motor skill acquisition to supplement their sport specific training programs.
The Program includes Strength and Conditioning sessions in The Engage Sport North High performance Center Weight Room, as well as Track sessions on the Indoor Track in the Charles Jago Northern Sports Centre and occasionally outside of the Charles Jago Northern Sports Centre on sunny days, to further enhance the Athlete's speed, balance, co-ordination and conditioning.
***ALL APPLICATION FORMS (downloaded on the Engage Sport North Website) MUST BE SUBMITTED BEFORE REGISTRATION IS CONSIDERED COMPLETE. Please email scanned completed forms to Dave Adolph before start of first session at dadolph@engagesportnorth.com
Every Monday session will be a running/conditioning session led by the Engage Sport North Strength & Conditioning Coach..
Every Tuesday and Thursday weight room session will start with a 5-10 minute dynamic warm-up with a variety of activation exercises that will be a progression of movements to build the foundation for all exercises done in the weight room and in the athlete's sport. The variety of activation exercises will help compliment various acceleration/deceleration, change of direction and agility skills. The weight room session will be based on primary sport movements with body weight movements and resistance exercises that will not affect the growing skeleton of this age range. Each session will conclude with a cool-down period of stretching and foam rolling.
Vigour Athletes may participate in days outside of the above sessions (i.e. working out in Session 1 time slot if registered in Session 2 time slot) as long as numbers of athletes in the weight room permit for the original 2 session groups. This will be up to the discretion of Dave Adolph, but every effort will be made to accommodate each athlete's schedule.
The above schedule is for the amount of sesison scheduled within the dates of July 4-August 25, 2017. Every athlete has the option to go to other session times to make up for missed sessions. Make up session are for only the dates of July 4-August 25 for the scheduled Vigour times.
NOTE: No running session for Monday July 3rd due to the Canada Long weekend and Monday August 7th due to the BC Day stat holiday.
Please feel free to contact Dave Adolph at dadolph@engagesportnorth.com for any further questions.
