Athletic Lab

We’ll be open Labor Day weekend but offer special hours. We will have our “Open Gym” training session on Saturday as usual. This session is open to both Scholastic Training clients as well as Performance Fitness training clients. On Monday, September 6th, we will be having special hours to better let you enjoy your day off. On Monday we will have a Performance Fitness training session at 7am and 11:30 am, Scholastic Training session at 12:30. Please reserve a spot via our website or by contacting our staff to let us know if and when you intend to train. If you are unable to attend any of these sessions and would like another time slot please let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate you.

We just wanted to send out another reminder that our Fall training schedule changes tomorrow (August 30, 2010). Here’s a quick glimpse of the new schedule. For details click HERE.

Summer is almost over and we’re ready to launch our Fall training hours. The schedule changes begin next week Monday (August 30, 2010). Here’s the schedule with notable written changes below.

Please note the following changes:

• We will continue to have “Open Gym” training sessions that are open to members of the Scholastic Training, Performance Fitness, and Elite Development classes. For the fall hours, open gym will be available on Tues, Wed and Fri at 6 pm; and Sat at 11 am.
• The Scholastic Training sessions remain at their usual Mon-Fri at 3:30 pm time slot and return with the evening 5pm time slots on Tues and Thurs.
• The Olympic Weightlifting training sessions are now on Tues and Thurs at 7 pm.
• The Performance Fitness class is now available Mon-Fri at 7 am; Mon, Wed and Fri at 5 pm; and Mon and Thurs at 6 pm

August 7th marked our first birthday. We’ve had a great first year servicing some of the Triangle’s best athletes and hardest working fitness enthusiasts and we’re looking forward to many more years as we build our community and make more people fast, fit, and strong. Thanks to all our great clients who helped make our first year a great one.

We’re trying to put together a team of staff and clients to run the Climb for Life challenge on Saturday, October 30, 2010 to benefit Cystic Fibrosis research. We can’t think of a better way to help out others than to exercise and raise money for a great cause at the same time. We’ll need at least 4 people to make a team. Our goal is to raise at least $1,000. If you’re interested in doing the run or if you’re unable to run but would like to donate to our efforts please contact Mike Young. Each team member must raise at least $100 to participate in the race.

Our regular 3:30 pm Scholastic Training session tomorrow (August 6, 2010) will be canceled. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. All other scheduled classes including the Performance Fitness class at 5pm and Olympic Weightlifting class at 6pm will take place as planned.

The Carolina Railhawks are running a summer camp for area soccer teams and the Athletic Lab staff are running the conditioning portion of the camp. Every day this week over 120 athletes from 6 local high school teams meet at Wake Med soccer park for 4 hours of physical, mental and skill development. Athletic Lab staff start off the session each day with a warmup and athletic development session to develop speed, agility and explosive power. Athletic Lab is proud to be the official strength and conditioning center for the Carolina Railhawks.

Athletic Lab sport performance coach Eric Broadbent successfully completed his USA Track & Field Level 2 certification in the jumping events. USATF’s level 2 certification is one of the more highly sought after coaches certifications in the country.  This solidifies the Athletic Lab staff as the most qualified AND experienced athletic development staff in the Triangle area.
Although small in number (4), our staff is all about quality. The facts speak for themselves:

• Mike Young: PhD, MS, and BS in sport science fields, USATF Level 1, 2 and 3 certifications, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, author of 2 books, 2 book chapters and dozens of research and coaching articles; coach on staff of 6 NCAA National Championship teams; former school record setting Division I athlete and nationally ranked Olympic weightlifter; former member of U.S. Elite development team in skeleton; 15 years of coaching experience.
• Eric Broadbent: BS in Physical Education, USATF Level 1 and 2 certifications, certified as a USA Weightlifting Sport Performance Coach; multi-time collegiate All-American and school record holder in track and field; 2 time USATF National Championship qualifier; 4 years of coaching experience.
• Chris Garrett: BS, USATF Level 1 certification, certified as a USA Weightlifting Sport Performance Coach and personal trainer from the National Personal Training Institute; former Division I basketball player; Top 5 ranking as U.S. masters athlete in track and field; 3 years of coaching experience.
• Cate Young: BS, USATF Level 1 certification; former Division I athlete and school record holder; former member of U.S. Elite development team in skeleton; 4 years of coaching experience.

If you care about quality coaching there’s only one place in the Triangle to train for maximum results. Sign up for a free trial session at Athletic Lab to see how we can help you reach your potential.

If you’ve been wondering what it’s like to train at Athletic Lab but you haven’t taken the leap to try it out, we’ve got an offer for you. From now until the end of July, if you sign up for our usual free trial session we’ll give you two extra free sessions. That’s an entire free week of training at Athletic Lab with no pressure to sign up or commit to anything. Unlike your typical health club or sport performance center we don’t pressure you to sign up or con you in to a long-term commitment. We just need to get you to try it out because we’re confident that your results will speak for themselves. To take advantage of this offer sign up for your first free trial session before August.

We will be having another speed camp on August 16-21st. Classes will be 90 minutes long and teach athletes the best practices for training speed as well HOW to run fast mechanically. We will use state-of-the-art cameras to review video of each athlete to make the biggest possible improvements in running technique. Our average improvement for speed camp attendees is 0.16 seconds off of 10m time and 0.26 seconds off of 30m time (~ 0.3 off 40 yard time). You can learn more info about our speed camps and sign up HERE. If you want to get faster before the start of the school year sign up soon.