Sports Performance Training

You compete, with others and with yourself, and you're always improving. We get it. Performance Training Services (PTS) coaches pinpoint competitive strategies and tactics to progress your ability. They create, monitor and adjust your personalized routines, using evidence-based methods.

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Why Choose Performance Training Services?

With all of the other options available, why choose PTS? The answer is simple: because PTS is about you. Your body, your goals, your needs.

A PTS training plan is designed to improve your fitness level or sports performance. It, therefore, starts with an in-person health assessment and continues with discussions with a coach and dietician. PTS is a part of a program from the place you know and people you trust.

Program Features:
  • Private and in-person health, fitness and performance assessments
  • Workouts and nutritional guidance
  • Cleveland Clinic fitness coaches, exercise physiologists and sports dieticians
  • Evidence-based training programs

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Cleveland Clinic Sports Health Continuum

PTS is a part of Cleveland Clinic's sports health continuum. Unfortunately, even with preventative measures, injuries can occur. When they do, PTS coaches work with Cleveland Clinic Rehabilitation and Sports Therapy to keep you in the game.

These aren’t your ordinary specialists. These are experts trained and focused solely on athletic assessment, treatment and improvement:

  • Primary care sports medicine physicians
  • Orthopaedic surgeons
  • Radiologists
  • Physical therapists
  • Exercise physiologists

You don’t get this with off-the-shelf programs. Cleveland Clinic means access to cutting-edge technologies and expert experience.

Train Right

To train is to develop or enhance. As an athlete, you compete and are always looking for ways to improve your performance.

PTS has developed sport-specific training programs tailored to improve athleticism, enhance performance in competition, and reduce risk of injury specific to your sport. Train Right offers sports-specific evaluations and training plans for a full range of sports, including:

  • Running Sports
  • Volleyball
  • Basketball
  • Soccer
  • Figure skating
  • Baseball/Softball
  • Football/Lacrosse
  • Golf

What We Offer

Our team’s emphasis is on providing multi-disciplinary and comprehensive training activities to help athletes reach their ultimate

Train Right - Initial Evaluation (2 visits/60 min each) - $110

All Train Right programs begin with an initial evaluation

Initial Visit:
Private, in-person comprehensive functional movement evaluation in a clinical environment

  • Pre and post basic strength and function testing
  • Review of health history and lifestyle information
  • Discussion of personal training goals
  • Receive some basic exercises

Post Visit:
Our Train Right experts develop a comprehensive training plan and prepare competitive strategies backed by evidence-based research to maximize your results. Your Train Right specialist provides you with:

  • Your complete fitness and performance summary
  • Goal-specific training recommendations
  • Receive your training plan (Detailed exercises and customized workouts with step-by-step instructions)
  • Initial in-person training session and options for continued guidance
Follow-up Training Sessions (1 visit/60 min)

Personalized in-person follow up sessions for individual or small groups (3 or less)

Our Train Right experts will coordinate your in-depth training sessions, with any current structured team training programs to avoid overtraining, and reduce risk of injury. Plus, they monitor and adjust your personalized plan as needed to meet your performance goals.

Average number of sessions varies by athlete and are based on goals and capability of athletes.

Training Plan characteristics to

  • Improve individual’s athleticism
  • Improve agility, range of motion and balance
  • Refine mental attitude
  • Increase aerobic capacity
  • Understand the science behind performance
  • Learn competitive strategies

Strength-Building & Functional Fitness

  • Machine and free weight resistance
  • Power lifting, Olympic lifts
  • Plyometric routines to build explosive power moves
  • Balance and coordination for the combative contact athlete
  • Drills for fast feet
  • Exercises for massive grip strength and bulldozer-strength legs

Assessments and Analysis
Depending on athletes goals and PTS specialists may recommend additional testing and analysis.

Bio-Mechanical video Analysis (2 visits/30 minutes per visit)

High-speed video to measure sports-related motion or technique assists in assessing performance of the athlete in their specific sport. Identifies the characteristics for peak performance and or cautionary flags that hinder performance and lead to injury. We break down the movement sequence and useful for pinpoint weakness and correcting problems with an athlete's technique.

Available for the following sports-related motion or techniques: a runners gait, a pitchers throwing motion, a golfers golf swing, or a volleyball/basketball players vertical or horizontal jump, squatting technique

Train Right athletes can benefit from Bio-Mechanical video Analysis by assessing performance of the athlete in their specific sport used to help detect flaws that hinder performance or could lead to injury.

Example:
Comprehensive video analysis of the running gait is used to assist in assessing performance of the runner. From this analysis, running techniques, strengthening and stretching exercises, and advice on proper shoe selection can be given to help improve a runner’s form, better his or her time, or prevent injuries.

PTS specialist will:

  • Break down the movement sequence to pinpoint weakness
  • Review results with athlete
  • Incorporate appropriate corrective exercises into existing training plans to correct problems with an athlete's technique to increase performance and reduce risk of injury

Sport-Specific Rehab

To rehabilitate is to restore. An injury can be your worst nightmare, and traditional rehabilitation can only get you so far. Different sports require different movement patterns:

  • Most injuries in the baseball and softball players occur in the shoulder and elbow of their throwing arm
  • Jumping athletes, like volleyball and basketball players, are prone to ACL injuries because they jump and land repeatedly
  • For runners and soccer players, leg strength and positioning is essential

PTS has designed sport-specific rehabilitation programs tailored to your specific movements, based on sport and athletic abilities. Our Sport-Specific Rehab specialists use research-proven methods to rehabilitate your specific injury to get you back into the action and reduce the risk of re-injury.

Sport-Specific Rehab Programs

  • Golf Smart - For golfers
  • Jump Right - ACL injury prevention program
  • Match Fit - For soccer players
  • Run Smart - For runners
  • Skate Smart - For figure skaters
  • Throw Right - For baseball and softball athletes

Our team’s emphasis is on effectively transitioning both nonoperative and surgical patients from rehabilitation to peak athletic performance.

  • Begin with a private; in-person comprehensive injury
  • Assessment to investigate cause of injury (due to trauma, poor mechanics, overuse or in adequate recovery), review of past medical history, discussion of personal training goals).
  • Our Sport-Specific Rehab experts work with you to develop a evidence-based therapy program that includes exercise protocols to restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain and prevent or limit physical disabilities.
  • They will coordinate your in-depth therapy sessions, with any current structure team training programs to avoid overtraining, and reduce risk of re-injury. Plus, they monitor and adjust your personalized plan as needed to meet your performance goals.

Prehab to Reduce First-Time Injury in Athletes »

“Prehab” in the training environment is synonymous with exercise programming designed to build a stronger, healthier athlete who can train harder, recover quicker and who is less prone to the interruption of training due to injury. Early phases of training are the foundation upon which additional performance is built. Prehab starts with the development of core strength and the development of proper movement patterns and muscle recruitment.

The term “prehab” gained popularity during the early evolution of the “Functional Training” movement. The efficacy of this training modality was supported by much of the research conducted Stuart McGill, PhD, in the area of core strength and spine function. One leading proponent of functional training is fitness maverick Juan “JC” Carlos Santana who brought the term prehab into the training programs of elite athletes.

It is beyond the scope of this article to provide an overview of the methods associated with appropriate training progressions. Excess deviation from the ideal “chronic stress” of an exercise prescription is a pathway to injury. What is “ideal?” Perhaps it can be best described as an environment that facilitates prolonged exertion without exhaustion.

A basic measure to safe progression of training load is when all systems of function are prepared for the increased challenge. Prehab as a mechanism to reducing first occurrence injury is incorporated into the practices of Cleveland Clinic’s Performance Training Services, a hybrid coaching service that utilizes web and traditional athlete and coach interaction.

- Frank Iannotti, PTS Coordinator

10 Reasons to See a Sports Dietician »

1. You want to improve your exercise/athletic performance.

2. You hope to gain muscle mass or lose body fat.

3. You want to improve your muscular strength and power.

4. You need to increase your stamina and endurance.

5. You aren’t sure which foods to eat before, during and after physical activity.

6. You wonder which fluids are best before, during and after physical activity.

7. You want to make better food choices at home and at the grocery store.

8. You hope to better control a food allergy or intolerance.

9. You have gastrointestinal problems that keep you from performing your best.

10. You need nutritional guidance and a personal meal plan for a medical condition.