Competitive Edge Training focuses on speed, agility, and endurance training to improve youth athletes cognitive abilities and athletic skills.
Competitive Edge Training is an up and coming high intensity training for youth athletes. Our goal is to improve overall athletic abilities by enhancing cognitive abilities, coupled with improved speed, agility, endurance, balance, and overall awareness of their body.
What is the connection between cognition and sport?
The ability to make decisions in the midst of high performance sporting competition can create a competitive edge. (i.e. The rate of absorption of information, at the same time as, explosive speed, strength, and under endurance pressure). The Connection must be strong enough to maintain the reliability of the athlete to work mentally and physically. Balance, proprioception and cognition are all aspects of the brains ability to perform at this high level whilst sitting on the shoulder of speed, power and endurance.
Why is cognition so important in sport?
Athletes must be able to make split-second decisions under the pressures of activity or competition. Quite often, this vital skill is left to chance, relying on the skill of the sportsman or athlete. Cognition in sport is so important because if you cannot READ the game, ANTICIPATE what will happen and REACT to stimulus, then an Athletes effectiveness is drastically reduced.
