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Thoughts from the first couple weeks of Season.

This season is upon us..Early thoughts

1. Talent can win early however a seasoned team can beat a young talented team early and often. Role players and glue guys are the most valuable component to winning. Lack of support for a talented player means lack of "W"s.

2a. Pre Season workouts for the Athletes I have worked with have proven results early in season. The ability to teach and build relationships with special people everyday is a blessing, I love to see the instant gratification of competing and winning as a result of all the sweat dedication and training for these athletes.

2b. Growth is constant, early season games have proven we have a lot to work on.

3. Scheduling. Coaches have a very tough decision to make for scheduling their pre-conference opponents. Do some teams have a false sense of confidence due to early season scheduling? Does a young team need to taste defeat to succeed later? TEAM,Confidence and Ability are the strongest components to a winning attitude. Adversity can bring you closer or crush your spirit. Be a BEAST mentally and physically.

4. The guy that you didn't think was any good, worked on his game and trained all off season and just dunked on you and took your spot. I love the diamonds in the rough on any level..

5. Recovery and Nutrition are key to succeed and not fizzle at the end of the year. A season is a marathon not a sprint, fuel your body and repair. Sleep, hydrate and hydrate.

New EPP Video Warm-Up 2.0..

This warmup is for advanced athletes, Do not attempt without a professional trainer or coach.


Stretch in the Hamstring, Hip Flexor and core activator


Key Positioning Cues:
Tall Chest
Back leg is pressing through the ground, firing the Glute.

Athlete First. Volume One. Clinic Reno,NV

www.Sierrastrength.com www.EliteProPerformance.com www.nextstephoops.com

Athlete First Basketball Clinic, Vol 1. One Day, Intensive Clinic

Limited to 12 participants per Session!

Get Ready for Basketball Season.
Designed for players of all Skill levels.
Drills Based upon Athletic Development and Experience.

ONE DAY ONLY

Where:Sierra Strength and Speed, 3760 Barron Way.
When: Sunday Oct 4th ,2009
Cost 45.00 includes Basketball Bag courtesy of Goal Setters!!!!

Grades 4th-7th Boys 9am-1130am
Grades 9th-12th Boys 1pm-4pm

Skills Adressed

*Basketball fundamentals
*Footwork
*Shooting
*Pre Tryout Basics
*Advanced drills for skilled players.
*Dynamic Warmup
*Rapid Response take home program geared to Increase foot speed and hand eye speed.
*Sierra Strength and Speed Youth Development
*Dynamic Warmup
*Injury prevention

Call or Email to Register

julie@nextstephoops.com, or Call 775-342-7333


*Featured Instructors*

Mike Atkinson, ACE CPT
Sierra Strength and Speed, Basketball Sport Spec Dev.
matkinson@eliteproperformance.com

Dr. Kevin Davis
NextStepHoops.com
Sports Injury Specialist
http://www.nextstephoops.com/3.html

Sierra Strength and Speed.

Northern Nevada's Finest Training New Web Site.

A little Illustration on power.

Lebron Pre Game Workout

Got this video from D-Trained's Blog. I like the workout...However I think Lebron's form could be worked on..My clients should recognize some of the workout. Shout out to "Full Timeout Blog"

Holiday Handles Basketball Camp 09

Sheryl Swoopes, "Swoopes Hoops Camp"

Elite Pro Performance presents:

Swoopes Hoops Camp March 30th- April 3rd, 2009 at Cascade High School in Everett, Washington. Sheryl Swoopes the three time WNBA MVP, and Olympic Gold Medalist, will be hosting a series of basketball camps for athletes grade 3-12th, interested in improving their game and learning from one of the all time greats starting in spring of 09.

Sheryl Swoopes has chosen Elite Pro Performance to format and direct all Swoopes Hoops Camp’s, Elite Pro Performance is a sports network of some of the nations most qualified and cutting edge instructors and sports specialists. Swoopes Hoops Camp is looking for young athletes seeking to improve shooting, ball-handling, footwork, coordination, individual and injury prevention skills with five days of intensive instruction and competition by Elite Pro Performance.

When: March 30- April 3, 2009, 9am-4pm
Where: Cascade High School, Everett, WA
WHO: FEMALES GRADES 3rd-12th grade
Cost: $195.00 Includes T-Shirt

DIRECT LINK

Limited to 120 Participants!
Register www.EliteProPerformance.com

Elite Pro Performance presents" Swoopes Hoops Series" Sheryl Swoopes

Sheryl Swoopes of the Seattle Storm, a three time WNBA MVP, Three Time Gold Medalist often called the "Michael Jordan" of womens Basketball will be hosting a camp series with Elite Pro Performance for the Spring and Summer of 09. The camp format will be up soon, all levels of players are encouraged to attend. Sheryl is very excited to work with the Seattle area youth and puts her upmost confidence in Elite Pro Performance to format the camp to her Gold Medal Standards, The only question Left is "ARE YOU ELITE?





"SWOOPES HOOPS CAMP"

CASCADE HIGH SCHOOL, EVERETT, WA

MARCH 30TH-APRIL 3RD





* MALES & FEMALES 4TH-12TH GRADE*









REGISTRATION OPENS FEB 9TH

limited to 120 participants!!!

http://www.eliteproperformance.com/

Atkinson not the typical JC player,

Below is an article that was written on me in Junior College. When this article first came out I was really angry at the writer. I thought it would isolate me from my teammates. (My teammates were indefferent) Discussing my financial situation and family situation, In a culture were Finances are not a typical topic for a sports writer on a college athelete. Over the years my career had taken a crazy path, i look back at this article and realize that its all true. You cant help where your from or what advantages or disadvantages physically socially, economically you may have. We all are teamates in a game called life, basketball has no boundaries, I have met more people from every background possible in this game and you know what we all had in common, Basketball. Sport reveals mans need to compete and to work together to achieve goals. I love the game for that reason alone.

"Are You Elite?"


When I started this blog it is intended to give atheletes a resource and tell them my story. Read the article and the next one i post will leave you smiling.(Written 3years apart!)
www.eliteproperformance.com, Training in Northern Nevada, Reno Personal training






Atkinson not the typical JC player
Joe Curley, jcurley@insidevc.com Tuesday, February 11, 2003

It's not just the floppy blond hair and eagerness to involve his teammates that distinguishes Mike Atkinson from most of his out-of-state California community college brethren.
While many of the urban outsiders that pepper California rosters come west to forget pasts intertwined with all the symptoms of an underprivileged upbringing -- like hunger, drugs or gangs -- the 6-foot-4 Reno, Nev., product comes from money, which qualifies as a skeleton in the closet when you spend your Saturday nights playing the city's game with urban offspring.

"I wouldn't like to say I'm from a higher class or anything," said Atkinson. "I'd say my parents make a good living. I've never felt uncomfortable about that. I'd say I fit in pretty well."

As much as he would like it to be otherwise, he is a very different JC basketball player.

A significant portion of his teammates and opponents live from check to check on financial aid. Atkinson pays the $650 monthly rent for his Simi Valley apartment by liquidating his stock portfolio. Most out-of-state players know the impotent feeling of living in California without a car. Atkinson paid for his 2000 Dodge Durango out of his own pocket.

He spent the first 10 years of his life with a successful entrepreneur for a stepfather, living in a 6,300-square foot mansion that included 21/2 acres of grounds, tennis courts and lake access in a private community outside Reno. Although his psychotherapist mother is remarried, to a dentist in a 4,800- square mountaintop homestead that overlooks the city, Mike bears Charles Atkinson's surname and considers him his father.

Yet he has made his choice, spurning other life paths to play basketball against players for whom there were no shiny alternatives.

"If he didn't have this love for basketball, he'd be at a four-year institution," said Atkinson's mother, Donna Hamilton.

Somehow the game reached past individual-based sports of the upper class, like tennis and squash (the loves of his stepfather), and gripped him. His first word was ball. At 4 years old, he started playing basketball at a local YMCA after his grandmother fabricated his age. A year later, he told his mother he wanted to be a Harlem Globetrotter.He was selected to take part in his school system's program for gifted students, but used most of his creativity on the court. He developed into a refined, if undersized, post performer in a structured, winning program at Galena High, where he played in three Nevada state title games. When he disappointed in front of college coaches at an important tournament, he returned home to shoot for hours on a school night in the freezing mountain air.

"Maybe his natural, genetic ability isn't great," said Hamilton, "but his desire and his heart is."

Making his teammates better became the most important thing in his life. When no scholarship offers came, he elected to continue playing at the only level available to him.

At Moorpark, he has made himself into the best 6-foot-4 center possible, averaging 8.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game while taking every loss like he would a cyanide pill.

"Whenever anybody watches him, you hear the same thing, 'God, I love your No. 22,' " said Moorpark head coach Remy McCarthy. "It's because he does everything he can for us. He gets by more with his heart and his head than his athleticism."

Knowing a team is made up of more than simply five scorers, several four-year programs have shown interest in giving Atkinson the scholarship for which he has detoured his life. When he accepts, he will do so with the knowledge that he earned it on his own, without any advantage at birth.

"Basketball is Mike's spiritual path," said Hamilton. "Instead of being on a mountain somewhere, he uses basketball to go beyond color and beyond socioeconomic groups. It's his way of telling his teammates, 'We are the same.' "