COMPANY PHILOSOPHY

The YEAH Program is a wonderful opportunity for to participate in a unique and exciting functional fitness program that will give them the tools to build a foundation for a healthy future. The YEAH Program will provide both boys and girls, ages 8-14 with an instructional functional fitness program utilizing postural, movement, and flexibility based exercises, in addition to educating the children on various aspects of general health and nutrition.

The goal of our program is to help children develop a life-long model for proper movement skills, physical fitness, and healthy living. Our philosophy utilizes the kinetic chain (how muscles and bone are connected together to create motion) to develop exercises enhancing basic movement skills in all three planes of motion (Lateral, Forward-Backward, Rotational). Training a child in these dynamic motions creates a healthy and functional individual, and greatly reduces the risk of injury in their daily lives as they grow and mature. We preach: exercise hard, exercise safe, get results, and become fit for life.

PROGRAM ITINIARY

WEEK ONE
SAGGITAL PLANE MOVEMENT

WEEK TWO
FRONTAL PLANE MOVEMENT

WEEK THREE
TRANSVERSE PLANE MOVEMENT

WEEK FOUR
INTEGRATION OF ALL THREE PLANE

WEEK FIVE
ADVANCED SAGGITAL MOVEMENTS

WEEK SIX
ADVANCED FRONTAL MOVEMTNS

WEEK SEVEN
ADVANCED TRANSVERSE MOVEMENTS

WEEK EIGHT
ADVANCED INTEGRATED MOVEMENTS

SAGGITAL PLANE: FORWARD AND BACKWARD MOVEMENTS

FRONTAL PLANE: LATERAL MOVMENTS (LEFT AND RIGHT)

TRANSVERSE PLANE: ROTATIONAL MOVEMENTS

INTEGRATION: MOVEMENTS INVOLVING MULTIPLE PLANES OF MOTIONS

A. Elementary Level Training

1. Ages 6-10 years
2. Program details:

I. Teaching of fundamental large motor skills (jogging, running, skipping, hopping, jumping, catching, throwing)

II. Teach the above skills in all 3 planes of motion.

III. Use games to reinforce these movements in all 3 planes of motion.

IV. To educate children on nutrition and healthy living that will support the delicate maturation of a growing child. Continue this with the delivery of new information and research regarding nutrition.

B. Beginning level Training

1. Ages 11-14 years
2. Program details:

I. Using tools (Medicine balls, bands, cones, etc.) and general exercises to teach how to accelerate, decelerate, and control the fundamental motor skills learned at the elementary training level.

II. Still practicing exercises in all 3 planes of motion, and the dynamic combination of them.

III. Higher-level games mimicking sports and other athletic events are used to test the level of dynamic movement achieved.

IV. To further educate on a more in depth knowledge of nutrition for the purposes of preparation for athletics vs. healthy living and weight management.

V. This training becomes the backbone of a healthy child entering what we call the awkward years. The years where a child undergoes everything from hormonal changes and growth spurts through puberty, and challenges a child’s coordination and balance.

C. Advanced level Training

1. Ages 14-college
2. Program details:

I. This level of training begins to incorporate general strength training exercises among exercises that continue to develop a child’s coordination, balance, strength, speed and power.

II. All of these may be used for the development of an athlete or for the variation needed in a general exercise program to develop and advance an individual’s fitness level. Of course, this all depends on the INDIVIDUALS goals.

III. The same concepts are continued to be applied based on the Y.E.A.H. program model based on the need of the Individual’s goals:

1. Exercises are performed in all 3 planes of motion.
2. An 8 week plan is laid out to reach the individual’s goals: athletic, aesthetic, or general health.

IV. The Y.E.A.H. program hopes to lay the foundation for all clients as they grow, develop and may utilize other personal trainers, strength coaches and health professionals.

V. Those that apply the Exercise and Nutritional habits we have laid the foundation for will be able to achieve their goals based on their genetic capabilities.