H.E.A.T. (High Endurance Agility Training) Program

Premise behind H.E.A.T.

The functional premise behind the H.E.A.T. program is to increase the brain's neuronal and reflex pathways, thereby quickening muscular responses in specific movements used in sporting events. This is done by incorporating "proprioceptive" training so the body simply responds rather than thinks about what it needs to do. This process improves biomechanics, hand-eye coordination and reaction time to meet the demands of the specific athlete's sport.

Why Proprioceptive?

Because that is how the brain understands where the body is in time and space. In essence, if you just react, rather than think, you will increase your ability to adapt to the different factors you experience in a given athletic experience. You can condition and train the brain much like a computer program so that at a blow of a whistle, the body will react and do exactly what it needs to do, giving you the best chance for success. Once the body is on auto pilot, you will quit interfering with what you are capable of doing. It is automatic because you do not have to tell your body to breath or what to do with that breath. Once you learn how to walk, you body has an integrated program in the higher centers of the cerebellum, basal ganglia, thalamus and cortex. If you change from a preprogrammed movement, it takes more executive function of the brain to participate and this slows you down. You also have to use the frontal lobe which is located behind the forehead to join into the game to increase movement.

H.E.A.T.'s design is to take the movements that are already pre-programmed and then add the volunteer piece and make a new program in the brain that is all-inclusive to that given sport, so the brain does not have to endure the guesswork of what it needs to do to accomplish its goals. It moves to autopilot and does what it needs to without interference so that you can perform to your bodies optimal potential in that given area to maximize your success.