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Meet the Founder
Coach Anthony founded Advanced Sports Training in 1997 to help local athletes perform sport at a higher level and to improve their chance of garnering a sports scholarship. Coach Anthony began his sports training career designing post surgical and rehabilitative exercise programs at Contra Costa Physical Therapy for 11 years. During that time he personally trained bodybuilders, power lifters and other strength athletes. In 1999 Coach Anthony was hired as the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Contra Costa College’s football team, a position he held for two seasons before moving on. To gain more knowledge Coach Anthony traveled the country attending seminars and strength coaching intensives hosted by some of the most respected coaches in the business. He has learned under such great coaches as Remi Korchemny and Charles Poliquan, and studied intensely the methods of Ian King, Scott Sonnen, Mat Furey and Charlie Francis. Anthony has spent twenty years practicing advanced internal martial arts, combat conditioning and yoga which also greatly influenced his training philosophy. Coach Anthony is determined to keep Advanced Sports Training cutting edge, therefore he continues to study and constantly improve his methods. Coach Anthony has designed and implemented successful strength and conditioning program at the Middle School, High School and Junior College levels. He has personally trained a great number of athletes from the Bay Area and has had athletes travel from out of state to train under his program.
Mission Statement
To provide male and female athletes from Middle School to College level cutting edge sports specific training programs that will improve performance while decreasing the chance of injury.
Gain These Benefits in A Few Short Months:
Baseball Program
Increased ability to quickly generate maximum power.
Increased arm strength.
Lower your 60 yard dash times by .02 to .05 tenths of a second
Learn to move more efficiently and gracefully.
Gain from 5 to 12 M.P.H. on the radar gun. Scouts are looking for speeds in the high 80’s and 90’s.
Decrease the chance of injury by aggressively strengthening your joints and eliminating any strength imbalances.
Gain a tremendously strong core, increased hip and forearm strength.
Basketball Program
Increase your vertical leap from 5 to 12 inches by performing jump training, explosive lifting, learning efficient mechanics and aggressively strengthening the posterior chain.
Become much more flexible while increasing strength at the end range of movement.
Gain quicker reactions to visual or audible stimuli.
Post players gain the Lower Extremity strength needed to hold their position on the low block.
Train for a much quicker first step.
Move laterally quicker and more powerfully.
Gain an increased work capacity and the ability to recover quickly.
Football Program
Gain the strength needed to dominate your opponent.
Increase your lean muscle mass 10 to 40 pounds if needed by doing extensive muscular hypertrophy training.
Lower your 40 yard dash times by .02 to .06 tenths of a second.
Learn to change directions quicker and under control.
Perform Hybrid Olympic lifts, explosive lifting and numerous exercises plyometrically to increase your power production.
Gain the ability to use your whole body as one unit.
Methods used to train power lifters will increase your bench press, squat and dead lift.
Become stronger and bigger without losing any athleticism or fluidity.
Junior Athlete Program - 12 to 18 Years Old
Become physically prepared to perform at the High School Level.
Learn my system from Martial Arts of instantly improving focus and performance by using the breath and concentration to activate certain power centers.
Train safely and appropriately; primarily muscular hypertrophy training with light loads of 50% to 60% of maximum which has been proven to cause no joint damage.
Perform from low to medium volumes of bodyweight exercises which I have found excellent for a beginning athlete to build strength.
Learn efficient jump mechanics.
Gain improved balance and body control.
Become more flexible by performing loaded and non-loaded stretches in various planes of movement.
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Master Athlete Program
Get into your all time best condition.
Gain the ability to progressively train with higher volumes of work without overtraining.
Eliminate any pre-existing muscular imbalances.
See improvement in your overall performance.
Learn breathing with movement exercises that increase recovery times.
Decrease old aches, pains and morning stiffness. Regain pain free movement.
Your Core strength will increase. No longer be held back by weak under-developed abdominals or limited lumbar strength.
You will perform highly effective loaded stretches and learn Russian Shutdown Threshold Isometric stretches that not only increase joint range of motion but to increase end range strength.
Schools That Have Used Coach Anthony’s Training Programs
Ohlone J.C. Men’s Basketball
Contra Costa J.C. Football
Piedmont High School Men’s Basketball
Skyline High School Men’s Basketball
Kennedy of Richmond High School Men’s Basketball
St. Leo’s 6th Grade Boy’s Basketball
Descriptions of the Training Programs
The Junior Athlete will follow Planned Training on a system that is progressively adapted to handle increased volumes of work and heavier loads. When the physical system has achieved a certain level the Junior Athlete will advance into a higher level of training.
The Intermediate High School Athlete will follow a system that emphasizes increasing lean muscle mass for a two week cycle followed by a cycle that increases strength and power. This type of training will continue until the athlete is mentally and physically ready to train at the highest level.
The College and Professional level training programs follow an advanced micro-periodization model for two weeks where strength, power, muscular endurance and hypertrophy cycles are all trained in a bi-weekly cycle. Followed by two weeks of the Former Soviet Union’s most advanced program called the Conjugated System which enables athletes to train with heavy loads for the entire training year without accommodation is more emphasized at this level.
Advanced Sports Training: 510.978.3619
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