Young Olympian Training Ground

Every day at BridgeAthletic headquarters, we hear tales from coaches and athletes across sports of how Bridge programs have helped them - by making the athletes stronger, the coaches wiser, or the team more unified and confident than ever. These are stories of championships, obstacles overcome, and goals achieved.

Brian Alexander is a mental skills coach who combines eight years of experience as an Olympic level water polo athlete, a master's degree in sport psychology, and business leadership training and coaching from The Ken Blanchard Companies to partner with athletes and performers of all ages and levels.

Think back to this time last year. You were likely gearing up for preseason with all the anticipation, energy (albeit nervous or excited), and mental toughness you could muster to get through a very intense time of the year for lacrosse players. Coming off the heavy off-season conditioning, preseason training is geared to fine-tuning you for your in-season playing schedule. How you prepare yourself leading up to preseason makes a huge impact on the way you handle the next couple of weeks. Let’s discuss a few tips so you can hit the ground running with training and truly maximize your preseason potential.

New Year, new you! If you liked last week's metabolic circuit, here's a great follow up circuit to keep you going. Wherever you are, get out there and break a sweat with these bodyweight exercises. And grab a workout buddy to challenge as well! 

Happy New Year! Hopefully you rang in 2016 with your kind of celebration! The holidays are a great time, but can be killer on the training schedule. Here's a metabolic circuit workout to give you a boost of energy and a full body workout and get you on track for the new year!

Get a full body workout without any equipment this week between holidays!

The BridgeAthletic Building Block Series is a set of 5 exercises that can be performed by swimmers of all levels on the pool deck. This building block is designed as a power circuit to mix in with your in the water training sessions. 

Methodology:

Include the exercises in this circuit into your power day swim workout. That is, perform a sprint in the pool, then hop out and perform one of the circuit exercises then repeat, progressing in the order shown below.

Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics (PASA) Rinconada - 2015 Champions (West) of Junior Nationals Swimming