Boost your athletic performance with the Athletic training program. This unique combination of training methods improves your resilience under intense loads and optimizes your performance.

“Citius, altius, fortius” is the motto of the Olympic Games, translated as “faster, higher, stronger.” Every ambitious athlete wants to jump further and higher, run faster, be the most formidable opponent, and hit harder. The EGYM+ Athletic training program is designed to optimize your athletic skills.

Athletic training consists of the following main components:

1. Maximum strength during training
   • Short, high-intensity units maximize our performance and muscle strength, allowing us to utilize more muscle capacity.
2. Explosive power development during training
   • High speeds and maximum loads help you gain power in the shortest possible time (explosive power).

Strength is a key part of the Athletic training program. Scientifically, strength is defined as the base force that influences additional forces like power and endurance. In other words: the greater your strength, the better you can train your power and endurance. A typical athletics program often includes very intense units like sprints and jumps. However, those doing this training run a high risk of injury.

The EGYM+ Athletic training program offers a highly efficient alternative to train your athletic skills without a track: circuit training using EGYM+ machines.

The EGYM+ Athletic training program takes the two types of training mentioned above and integrates them into our EGYM+ machine training program. Our training programs are divided into different phases to provide the optimal training stimulus at exactly the right time, based on your goals and the progress you’ve made. Each phase begins with a strength measurement to continuously adjust the training weight to your individual needs.

The Four Phases of the Athletic Training Program

Phase 1: Robustness (negative)

Increase muscle robustness
In the first phase, we create the ideal conditions for the following phases by strengthening the muscles and increasing robustness. Your muscles can exert more force during an eccentric contraction than during a concentric contraction. We use this principle during negative training: while building muscle with high-intensity training and a medium number of reps, the extra weight during the eccentric phase optimizes both the number of active muscle fibers and the systematic way they work together (intramuscular coordination).

Phase 2: Power (explonic)

Maximum power
Explonic training is performed with medium loads at maximum speed. The relatively low weight stimulates peak muscle performance. Power training allows you to convert your strength into speed, a transformation that forms the basis of athletic performance. This phase optimizes your neuromuscular system, allowing you to control more muscle fibers at once. Your power improves without an increase in muscle mass. The better your muscles and nerves work together (muscle fiber activation), the more powerful your muscles are.

Phase 3: Muscle Building (adaptive)

Increase muscle mass
The goal of the third phase is muscle building. The second phase of training focused on maximizing speed and power. Larger muscles can handle more stress and load and therefore have the capacity to generate even more power. This variation phase focuses on building more muscle mass before the program shifts back to speed and power in the fourth phase.

Phase 4: Power (explonic)

Maximum explosiveness
In the final phase, we return to explonic training. We use the progress from previous phases to move heavier weights even faster. By improving your performance, you can fully utilize your muscle potential and perfect the explosive power of your muscles by generating force against the machine’s resistance at maximum speed.

This ultra-modern and innovative training program improves the performance and power of your muscles without focusing solely on muscle growth. That means that besides building muscle, you also improve your strength and focus on the explosive contraction of your muscles.