Children experience different physical changes at different stages of growth and development from birth to adulthood.  A full understanding of the physical changes by age can also provide great insight into sport and training focus over time.  AGE 0-2    Neural gain at it’s highest, rapid skeletal growth, slow gradual muscle increase, begin to develop motor skills. AGE 2-4    Continuing neural gain, rapid skeletal growth, slow muscle growth and early development of fine and gross motor skill. AGE 4-...Read more

Sport conditioning is considered to be one of the 10 top trends in fitness as amateur and pro athletes, sport coaches, parents, weekend warriors and adult recreationalists all demand this new training style.  Traditional fitness training is great for helping people to look good and achieve basic fitness goals (lose weight, improve basic strength and cardiovascular endurance and be more mobile) but athletes of all levels and abilities need a more sport oriented training focus.  For health clubs and related businesses aiming to add spor...Read more

Twist Conditioning’s sport conditioning certifications have 3 primary pillars of training to reflect all of the secondary fitness characteristics. The athletic training style revolves around training sport movement (agility, quickness, speed, reaction skills, power, coordination, acceleration), sport strength (muscular strength, endurance, power and whole body strength) as well as sport balance (stability, kinesthetic awareness, proprioception, neuromuscular pathways, transitional balance and peak power).  Training all aspects of spo...Read more

We now understand that sport requires coordinated movement, full body strength, balance and overall enhanced mechanics to reduce the chance of injury and to improve athlete performance.  Children, youth and adults today do not get enough varied activity and even within the sport experience few venture outside of scheduled practice to play the game.  Where kids in the past would develop overall athleticism by participating in multiple sports throughout the year, many are specializing in one sport at an early age and lack the well round...Read more

Over the past decade there has been a considerable growth in the science and practical training in sport conditioning.  In the past, athlete training focused on the development of sport specific skill, strategies and tactics with most of the training coming from a sport coach during regularly scheduled team practices.  Many sports have been using extra training (strength, endurance and flexibility training) to compliment sport skill development especially as an athlete shows sports promise and excels to a higher competitive level.&nbs...Read more