All sports movements vary but have many similarities. Understanding how the body creates movement and by applying these principles to walking, running, jumping, and squatting can help you become extremely effective. Anything that limits or enhances mobility will affect your performance. We can help you become more efficient, improve your conditioning, increase your speed, jumping height, and reduce your injuries by applying the different modalities of mobility to improve your performance.
AFC uses the science of inner and outer muscular systems to enhance your performance. There are two muscular systems that are involved in movement. The inner system consists of the major stabilizers of your body and the outer system consists of the external muscles. The outer system depends on the inner system to create efficient movements, and if the inner system has been neglected from improper training, your overall performance is reduced. Most training programs are focused on training the outer system with some benefit to the inner system. We train the inner system to improve flexibility and strength before we focus on the outer system. The stronger and more flexible the inner system becomes the more improvement you will see in your overall performance. When we start training the outer system of your body it is ready to reach its full potential. We enhance the mobility of your body by improving the posture, stability, functional flexibility, and core strength.
Our focus is to prepare your body for increased speed and explosiveness. AFC focus is not on the sport but the actual movements of the human body. The human body recruits a group of specific muscles to create movements. Some of the muscles function eccentrically to decelerate the kinetic chain, isometrically to dynamically stabilize the kinetic chain, and concentrically to accelerate the kinetic chain. An activity occurs in one plane dominant, but the the other two planes of motion must be stable to perform the activity efficiently. AFC training programs are built around this principle. A perfect example would be walking. Even though when you observe someone walking you will see them moving in a linear motion, directly forward. But when you study what the muscles are doing to move the person forward you will see a very complex pattern of muscles working in a specific pattern. AFC training programs are developed to enhance human movement by improving the functionality of the kinetic chain. Before you can become a great jumper or have great speed your body needs to be prepared to decelerate, stabilize, and accelerate the kinetic chain of the associated movements. When there is a weak link within the kinetic chain the movement is not able to execute to its fullest potential. A weak link could be a flexibility imbalance, loss of flexibility within a joint, strength imbalance where the quads are way stronger than the hamstrings, bad posture, weak abs, weak glutes, misaligned feet, etc.. Training the external muscles before you carefully prep the kinetic chain will lead to decreased functionality in the kinetic chain. In other words, your speed will be slower, you will not be as explosive, turning and stopping will be sluggish. Instead of being a Porsche you'll be a truck. When your kinetic chain is performing at its optimum level you can participate in any sport. All you have to do now is to train in your sport and watch your body move as it never did before.
