COMPONENTS OF ZONEFORCE TRAINING
ZoneForce athletic performance training utilizes a brain-based, “neck up” approach, which incorporates a number of cutting-edge technologies to further the boundaries of athletic performance training. Additionally, training focuses on enhancing the three main levels of performance: Mental, Physical and Nutritional.
Zone Force specializes in pushing the possible. Where other athletic performance training programs may specialize in increasing this performance through one or two programs or technologies, Zone Force combines a number of proven techniques and technologies to catapult results on the field. While other companies may focus on the physical aspect of athletic performance, ZoneForce has taken a “neck up” approach-- referred to as Brain Training. Also known as a neurocognitive or neuroscientific approach to training, Brain Training is the most effective methodology for improving skills.
ZoneForce's approach to Brain Training includes combining and recombining reseach-based, proven methodologies to get exponentially more powerful results in less time...
We then develop a specific training regimen that incorporates the programs and technologies that will have the largest impact on the athlete trainig. This is determined through benchmark testing we administer as well as the sport, position played within the sport, goals on and off the field, learning style or if there are any learning challenges that can be lessened with the implementation of a number of our programs and technologies. (i.e. ADD/ADHD or a history of concussions).
Our elite training regimen is completed in twelve sessions, each lasting 45-90 minutes, depending on the combiniation of programs chosen for a particular team or individual. Training takes place three times a week, either at our Norcross location or at your own training facility.
Below, you will find information on some of our most popular and most requested programs.
Interactive Metronome (IM)
In many sports, the difference between a swing and a miss, a pass and an interception, or a goal blocked or made comes down to the millisecond...IM is that difference.
IM is a research-based tool used to increase performance both on the field and in the classroom. A neurotechnology that works at a foundational level, IM retrains the brain and increases communication speed between important networks. Strengthening these neural pathways in the brain leads to an increase in general intellectual functioning, working memory, controlled attention and executive functions. When applied to athletics and academics, areas showing improvement only multiply.
IntelliGym®
IntelliGym® is a technology that is proven to increase on-court performance of hockey and basketball players by over 30%. Originally developed for Air Force Pilots by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) this breakthrough Cognitive Simultation technology was found to have a staggering effect on crucial skills in the arena of team sports- specifically basketball and hockey that had previously been perceived as untrainable. Those include skills needed for "game intelligence," such as: awareness, reading plays, anticipation, decision making under pressure, executuon, long-term concentration, and avoiding errors.
V-Flex
The V-Flex hitting system is used with baseball and softball players as a tool to train hitters how to recognize a "core strike zone." Hitters are trained to recognize, almost from the point of release, which pitches will likely result in strikes and which will not--allowing them to decide whether or not to swing at a much earlier point. V-Flex is centered around changing the idea of the strike zone from the "numbers to knees" zone (a large, rectangular shape encompassing the majorit od a player's torso and legs) to a smaller circle within that original zone. Because the hitter's brain has been retrained to work within a much more accurate strike zone--one in which only seven balls can fit--they experience much higher quality at-bats.
MAX GXL Supplements
After extensive research, ZoneForce began incorporating Max International's MaxGXL supplement as an extremely effective performance supplement. It is both NSF Certified for Sport (meaning it contains no ingredients on the banned substance list), and a safe addition to the nutritional component of the ZoneForce training regimen. MaxGXL focuses on increasing the body's glutathione levels; a vital, naturally occuring anti-oxident that, among other benefits, improves recovery time following exercise.
