ACE PERFORMANCE BLOGS

Did you miss more games than you hoped last season? Check out this post for 4 performance components you need to include in your...

I tell myself all the time I’d be a professional athlete if I had a professional performance coach looking after me when I was in my...

Coming off a big season with Scotch College and Old Scotch Football Club, Matt Mayes has come into ACE Mount Waverley with the goal of...

Off legs conditioning – Bike sample session During the off-season/pre-season period a lot of athletes are only using running as their...

We do plenty of jumping in our youth program, but how do we progress past bodyweight? Obviously teaching kids to control their own body...

Nail the pattern, then make it challenging! Check out some of the ways we mix up our change of direction drills to turn them from a...

Often kids get taught how to jump and land in isolation, which is great to start but how do we then link it together? Combining different...

A breakdown of the hurdle run – One of the first things we teach our youth athletes is good knee and foot position. But how does that...

Sporting role models can be great for the development of youth athletes! We absolutely love that we have a dedicated youth performance...

Andre came to us back in July as an already driven youth athlete but he has been one of the most consistent trainers in our program and...

Challenging the squat pattern. Once our youth athletes are nailed their technique for the squat pattern it is time to start to...

What a year! First full year of training in facility in a long time for the @sedacollegevic High Performance Program has been a big one....

Control and chaos - there always needs to be both sides of the coin in a youth training program Obviously, we want to teach our young...

Compare the Pair! The Heavy Sled Accel is a fantastic and effective way to improve an athlete’s speed and power over the first few steps...

Footy off-season is in full swing! Most junior competitions have had a few weeks off now, so now is the time to get onto the front foot...

End of season boom! We’ve had plenty of young athletes coming through the doors with their winter seasons ending and school holidays over...

Do you have bad balance? This is for you We have been seeing that there is a chunk of youth athletes that struggle with single leg...

Teaching kids that if they want to go fast they need to know how to break The drill shown in the video above has been a great tool...

Congrats to Jamie Stevenson on winning both the 100 & 200m race in his divisional athletics day, which takes him onto regionals in...

Two of the big rocks of acceleration that we teach our youth athletes is body position and force into the ground (pushing back into the...