It’s hard to be a great athlete without strength. Our strength program is quite different than the traditional or “old school” program. The strength realm has been a slowly evolving philosophy. In the past most coaches have taught their athletes to bench, squat, snatch, and dead-lift extreme amounts of weights. This is partly why none of us as adults have any backs or knees left. We believe that you need to be strong, but you also need to maintain range of motion and flexibility. At F5 we do a lot of unilateral movements in multi planer actions. This means we do drills with primarily dumbbells using more than one isolated muscle many times in a sport specific manner.

Most athletes need to do a precise movement like throw a football with only inches of space, shoot a basketball at 20 feet away, hit a baseball in less than 1/3 of a second, kick a soccer ball within inches of the goal tender and so forth. These are precision movements that require “stabilizer” muscles. Not the big barbell bench press muscles, but the smaller and more important muscles that are never utilized in a barbell exercise.

Our strength exercises mainly consist of bands, dumbbells, stability balls, balance devices, cable machines, med balls and occasionally a traditional piece.

Muscular balance is often overlooked in strength training. We believe that both sides of the body should be worked equally, thus creating muscular balance. This helps prevent a lot of injuries.