How quickly can you make a change in your clients’ performance?
6 weeks?
4 weeks?
How about instantly? Don’t believe me? Here’s the proof.
I’m going to show you a young baseball player that came to IFAST this week. He’s already experiencing success, but he’s looking to get even better.
He’s a got a great sport coach. He gets it. He knows that for his coaching to be effective, he needs an efficient athlete.
He sees the way his athlete reacts to his coaching, and he’s experienced enough to know that this ballplayer needs something that he can’t provide. So he came to us after learning of our IFAST Assessment, and how we can impact his athlete’s performance.
Whenever possible, we’ll view the athlete performing their sport as nothing can duplicate the exact demands related to force, mobility, energy demands, etc. Couple this with the findings in our generalized assessment component, and we are capable of determining the exact source of dysfunction that may be preventing the athlete from playing to their potential.
We performed the generalized component of the assessment and then went outside to confirm some of the findings from the generalized assessment.
Here’s what his throwing looked like. Pay close attention to the “short arm” appearance of his throw and lack of rotation and follow-through.
After viewing his throwing, we confirmed the source of his dysfunction and applied a specific, appropriate intervention to make the correction.
Here’s what his throwing looked like after the intervention. Keep in mind that this video was shot only a few minutes after the first.
Even if you know nothing about throwing sports, you can see the improvement in follow-though and velocity.
So what did we do to make this change?
Did we stretch something? Nope. But range of motion and mobility did improve in just a couple minutes
Did we strengthen something? Nope. But strength did improve too.
Truth be told, the intervention doesn’t matter because it was specific to this athlete’s needs. Needs that were determined by the IFAST Assessment System.
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