SERVICES
Our way of increasing players athletic potential revolves around working on their weak-links to lessen the chances of injury risk and developing sport related strength and power that transfers into sport performance. The performance paradigm DG Athletic Training follows consists of 3 effective attributes:
STABILITY/BALANCE
(Joint integrity/Brain to muscle connectivity)
STRENGTH
POWER-MOVEMENT
IN-SEASON TRAINING
We find that a lot of basketball/sport related injuries stem from:
1) poor postural strength
2) incorrect bio mechanical patters or how we move.
With in-season training we begin with balance and or joint integrity to build a strong foundation first, through which we lessen the risk of injury. Once we have that in place and athletes joints feel strong and move in a safe, economic way we will then move on to functional training. This is where we focus on making the athlete strong to withstand the physical demands specific to their sport. Making athletes physically smart and NOT prone to injuries is one of our MOST IMPORTANT goals. We sporadically intertwine sport specific strength exercises with general strength and power development. We find that it is important to train maximal strength and sport specific power at least once a week in-season.
OFF-SEASON TRAINING
BSAPProgram is our summer program designed for athletes that want to work on their weaknesses and work on their athleticism. BSAP is a month long program and it stands for Basketball Speed, Agility and Power. BSAP Program integrates 2 sport performance training components.
•Power developing component designed to increase explosive speed, speed strength, quickness, first step, vertical ability, powerful reactivity and sprinting speed. In this phase of the program we work on building a more advanced level of sport conditioning to be able to transfer it effectively and safely into sport movement.
•Speed and Agility component Carefully periodized and progressed sport performance, sport movement and plyometric drills (agility, speed and reactivity). In this phase we concentrate on developing movement patterns that are specific to basketball. Following the movement cognitive phase we shift focus to executing the movements under high velocity in a dynamic setting. Increasing the athletes’ vertical ability is one of the skills we work on here.
Each player will receive a DG Athletics warmup jersey.
Hours of sport specific training: 24+
Price: $650
WHY CHOOSE THIS PROGRAM:
-Make the A team in your highschool
-Make the university team
-Improve your top speed with the ball, change of direction and vertical jump!
-Individual assessments conducted the first day
-Each athlete will perform the re-assessment, results emailed
-Be able to complete And-1 plays at the rim
-Out-jump others
-Stand out with your athleticism and conditioning
-Get recognized by your coaches and scouts
-Get looks from CIS schools and compete for basketball scholarships
-Get an explosive first step
-Play at high velocity and be unguardable
-Dominate the offensive and/or defensive boards
-Become an elite defender and be able to stay in front of your check
Dushan Gligorijevic
Team leader
Dushan has always put his love for sports and athleticism first. Even as a boy growing up in Belgrade, Serbia he swam for a local club and began playing club basketball for Red Star. Upon his arrival to Vancouver, B.C he set a personal goal to make his high school basketball team and the starting five. Once on the team, he received many awards and accolades including the most efficient player on the team award in his last year of playing high school. Some of his player highlights include annual trips to California for tournaments where he enjoyed competing against high-level players. Dushan’s high-school carrier still stands as his best basketball memory. As he pursued his bachelors in Human Kinetics, he also continued playing the sport he loves. He played for two highly competitive teams, UBC-O and of course UCFV where they went on to win the BCCAA Championship in his last year