SPG excels in providing mental and physical assessment, training and support for junior performers
- Does your child struggle to control their emotions while competing?
- Does your child get anxious before competition and perform better in practice than competition?
- Does your child struggle with repetitive injuries?
- Is your child outperformed because their competitors are stronger, faster, fitter?
- Do you want your child to learn to train the right way, at the right time, with the right skills?
SPG’s primary focus is junior performance. We care passionately about providing junior performers with world class psychological and physical training.
The SPG advantage
- Expertise: SPG has an exemplary record in developing junior performance. Our past and current junior athletes include top 10 world ranked athletes, national champions, and state champions. Many of our junior athletes have gone on to Division I college programs and professional sport. Our Directors of Psychological and Physical training competed at the highest level, hold the leading sports science qualifications in the sports industry and support leading programs and universities in advancing knowledge regarding junior performance.
- Experience: SPG has over 25 combined years experience in dealing with key mental and physical issues specific to junior athletes including; anxiety, emotional control, mental toughness, effective focusing, mental blocks/fear, pressures of school/sport balance, growth spurts, age appropriate training, overtraining, hydration/coping with the heat and injury prevention.
- Science: SPG applies the leading scientific principles to juniors. All SPG’s work is underpinned and driven by the leading sports science research and latest practice regarding long term athlete development. We teach the right things, the right way, at the right time.
- Assessment: SPG starts in the right place. We take the time to conduct individual sport specific assessments which guide everything we do. This includes functional movement screens to identify movement pattern issues which increase susceptibility to injury.
- Coordination: SPG presents a unique opportunity for athletes to a gain a coordinated program of physical and mental training, amplifying the effects on performance of receiving training and support in isolation. SPG also works in partnership with national leading performance centers, coaches and organizations who share our passion for developing performance without compromise.
Mental programs
SPG believes that psychological aspects of performance are skill based. They can be learnt and developed through appropriate specialist training and support. Research consistently demonstrates that juniors are more receptive to the development of psychological skills and have the capacity to develop these from 9 years old. These skills enable juniors to maximize performance in the sporting arena.
This proactive approach enables juniors to be more self aware, confident, experience less performance anxiety, remain focused under pressure, develop strategies and routines for success, and have higher levels of motivation, confidence and self-esteem. It also enables them to develop lifelong habits based upon learning and enjoyment regardless of ability
Physical programs
SPG is dedicated to ensuring junior performers reach their performance potential and remain injury free. All SPG physical conditioning is specific to the demands of the sport, the age and the individual development stage of each performer. SPG’s approach ensures each performer develops a strong physical foundation, balancing muscular development, optimizing range of movement, and reducing sport specific injuries.
SPG also places emphasis on teaching juniors other key physical aspects of performance such as hydration, nutrition, performing in the heat, recovery techniques, warming up and cooling down, and recognizing early signs of injury. This facilitates the development of lifelong habits to ensure not only future performance but physical long term well being.
