Rapid’s Basketball Performance Enhancement Program is a comprehensive program designed to increase a player’s quickness and agility while also addressing injury risk factors.Rapid implements the Optimum Performance Training (OPT) model derived from the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM).The NASM is the official provider of sports education for the National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association (NBATA).This list provides a brief overview of what the program primarily consists of:

Dynamic & Static Stretching – Prior to training, we warm the cold muscles up by actively stretching the muscles in various movement patterns. Static stretching follows the workout, and together will help decrease the likelihood of muscle strains or pulls and improve on-court performance.

Prehab - A series hip and core stabilization exercises that train the small stabilizing muscles which will help increase joint stability and reduce the likelihood of injury.

Power exercises - The main staple of our program because it not only increases a player’s vertical, but gives the athlete that explosive first-step. The player will be able to accelerate down the court faster or increase lateral quickness by training lower body reactive power.

Movement skills - This incorporates basketball specific quickness and agility drills.Combining efficient movement patterns along with the use of sleds, bungees, and various drills, the player learns to accelerate, decelerate, and gain the ability to react in an efficient manner that will cut down valuable time while guarding their opponent.

Functional Strength – Using an integrated strength training approach, we apply functional strength training methods to increase lower body balance, strength and stability.

Core – A strong and stable core is critical in transferring power from the ground up and increasing a player’s performance.With the use of various cable and medicine ball exercises, we train the core through multiple planes to help increase core stability so that players move efficiently when constantly changing direction.