The Structural Phase is the first phase of training.  During this phase, we focus on restoring optimal range of motion and joint stability. This is the “tune up” phase.  Before we begin to focus on performance enhancement, we want to be sure that your structure is balanced and that everything moves and functions the way it was designed to. This phase is crucial for both injury prevention and the ability to reach one’s athletic potential.

Once you’ve completed your “tune-up,” you will be ready to start increasing your horse power with Phase 2. In this phase, we use our next generation methods to develop comprehensive, functional strength.

There are six different subcategories of strength: stability, general strength & hypertrophy, maximal strength, explosive strength, stretch shortening cycle, and strength endurance. Depending on your goal and/or sport, your SOURCE training program will emphasize the necessary strength sub-qualities accordingly. Along with flexibility and stability, strength then becomes a base for the next phase of training, the development of power and speed.

Power can best be defined as the ability to transform strength into speed. The presence of power differentiates between the person who may look strong and the fully functioning athlete who can optimally apply his strength with explosive power on the playing field.  Our coaches understand that speed is a function of both strength and flexibility. Therefore, the achievement of optimal speed is impossible without also training for strength and flexibility.  This is one of the many reasons that the SOURCE Training Model rests firmly on a foundation of flexibility and strength.  In addition, when training for running speed, proper biomechanics are extremely important. At the SOURCE Institute, we apply the most advanced and research based methods to improve the biomechanics of running. While it may take years to reach your speed potential, significant gains can be made in only one training session at the SOURCE Institute via proper analysis and adjustment of your biomechanics.

In the first phase of establishing chemical balance, the focus is on restoring health. During this phase, we want to reduce or eliminate all together any stressors from the body and improve its most important function, efficient energy production.  The stressors we focus on include, low Ph and oxygen, toxicities, nutrient deficiencies, low blood sugar, hormonal imbalances, poor digestion and absorption, metabolic antagonists, and emotional stress.

The first phase of establishing chemical balance is healing, and it too acts like a tune-up for your physiology.  Once your SOURCE Coach has taken you through this tune-up, you will be ready to build up your fat burning engine, or metabolism. Although you will experience a metabolism boost during the healing phase, here in Phase II it will be the priority. We will use specific methods to increase your body’s ability to produce energy, such as meal frequency, macronutrient profiling, body typing, macronutrient manipulation, anabolic resistance and cardiovascular training. By enhancing your metabolism, you will be able to alter your body composition more easily, in other words, burn any unnecessary body fat and achieve your optimal weight.

After completing both Phase I and Phase II, you will experience increased energy and health and will be well on your way to achieving your optimal weight.  Phase III represent Optimal Functioning, and in this phase your SOURCE Coach will assist you in learning the in’s and out’s of maintaining this new and higher level of living.  We understand all too well that there are times in life when things get to be too much, your short term priorities change, and your nutrition and exercise programs suffer. This is to be expected and is often harmless as long as you don’t stray too far from the path. At the SOURCE Institute we view progress as often taking two steps forward and one step back. The important thing is to move in the right direction over the long term, and that’s exactly what we help you do.

Assessment is the cornerstone of the SOURCE Institute’s model, and no where is it more important than when working towards psychological balance.  Before we can set goals and begin working towards them, we must first engage in an honest and in-depth evaluation of your current level of functioning.  Today’s experience of who you are is often the best teacher when it comes to increasing your effectiveness as an athlete, a parent, a student, and as a human being.  Phase I of achieving Psychological Balance allows us to explore who you are and establish both your strengths and areas of needed growth.

Assessment is only as useful as it is used and followed closely by the establishment of goals. Phase 2 represents the goal setting experience. Although we emphasize the need for flexibility and fluidity, we also recognize the need for a destination on each journey.  Clearly established goals will greatly increase the likelihood that you experience progress while working with your SOURCE Coach.

At the SOURCE Institute we believe strongly in the theory of abundance. Our overarching goal of serving others and helping them to do the same is the cornerstone of this theory. Psychological abundance is the promise of healthy decision making and right action. It brings with it gratitude, ease, and self-acceptance while allowing for still greater hope that things can always improve. In fact, things will always improve with continued assessment, goal setting, and intelligent, well-directed effort.