TF PAS - The Total Conditioning Package

TF PAS - A complete and total package.

At Team Fitness we believe in conditioning as a complete and total package.

Of course there are sports specific demands. Some sports even make position specific demands. But for the optimum performance, the best results, there is an underlying need to approach fitness as a holistic discipline.

Far too often we work with elite, even Olympic athletes who suffer injury or compromised performance because their training regime has lead to muscle imbalances. They have trained in a narrow focus that is skill driven, but overlooks some very fundamental physiological facts.

Like the badminton player who wouldn’t weight train as he “would bulk up and slow down.” This in spite of the fact that his fitness coach was more agile across the floor and could jump higher for longer than him. And surprise surprise could bench press twice as much as the racquet man.

Like the Premiership footballer, who was constantly injuring his hamstrings. Why? Because the muscles that drive the kick, the leg extensors - quadriceps - were twice as strong as the muscles that would finally arrest a leg travelling at some 60 mph - the hamstrings.

There is often a misunderstanding among athletes and coaches about the relationships and components of total fitness.

This is why we designed the TF PAS Package. - Power Agility and Stamina. This is an approach that recognises all aspects of fitness and body conditioning, and adapts them to suit the individual athlete’s needs.

• Power - the combination of strength and speed.
• Agility - the discharge of the proprioceptive skills - balance and co-ordination.
• Stamina - the balance of energy and repeated stress endurance.

These three components are present throughout physical activity. It is the absolute values and then the relationship between them that determine whether it is an elite performance or failure, or worse still injury.

The TF PAS approach is to design programmes that deliver those values in the correct measure to ensure a sports specific performance of the highest level - every time - with minimum risk of injury.

© Team Fitness 2009.