Why XerGames works for High Performance Athletic Training

• Interactive training using real sports balls challenges brain & body with real results
• Progressive computerized programming motivates all, from beginner to professional athletes
• Interactive feedback demands improvement in speed, agility, accuracy, focus, footwork, balance reaction time, performance under pressure
• Sports fitness programming improves cardio fitness,  functional and core strength
• Sport-specific skill training for football, baseball/softball, basketball, soccer, tennis, lacrosse, volleyball
• XerSports Group Boot Camps focus on individual skills and team performance
• Individual training programs focus on maximizing personal performance
• Competitive games and scoring develop strategic thinking & positioning
• XerPro and XerTrainer target walls designed for high velocity sports balls

XerGames™ Athletic Training Programming

Classes	XerPro Athletic Classes To Go	XerTrainer Athletic Classes To Go
Drills	XerPro Athletic Drills	XerTrainer Athletic Drills
Boot Camps	XerSports Football	XerSports Baseball/Softball	XerSports Basketball	XerSports Soccer	Click Here to see our full list of Boot Camps

Sportwall Physical Training for Accomplished Athletes

In today’s competitive sports environments, athletes as well as parents are continuously seeking ways to improve performance and ultimately gain an edge over the competition.  Sportwall programming helps skilled athletes push their limits AND cross train.

Cross training refers to speed skaters who train on bicycles, a tennis player who works out on a speed bag, a cross country skier on roller blades, or a gymnast on a trampoline.  The most successful athletes regularly train away from their chosen sport in activities that improve the athletic characteristics required.   More importantly, seasonal facilities may not be available.  Sportwall programming supplies the ideal off season physical challenges or a break from the monotony of sport specific training.

Even elite athletes can find the challenges to strength, power, and endurance they need, but also the general athleticism required by their sport.  Application of speed, agility, strategy, and technique under pressure is also found here.   Strong athletes don’t win the battles, athletic ones do.  Sportwall is the first training system to fully utilize technology to improve conditioning in athletes of all ages and abilities WHILE improving their decision making under pressure.

Because the Sportwall XerPro/XerTrainer ramps up its demands in a systematic fashion, it is appropriate for athletes of all abilities and levels of competition.  The system challenges professional athletes as far as they are willing to be pushed, yet is accessible to amateurs and beginners. The level of the athlete will determine which training is initiated and its specific progression.

Sportwall has the ability to quantify/score the success of individual movements.  To an accomplished athlete, an improvement of ONE percent can represent a huge competitive gain, but that gain is correspondingly difficult.  Accurate scoring/feedback become extremely important when the athlete is digging deep for effort and the highest levels of motivation are required.  Sportwall meets that need.

The athlete or coach gets accurate assessment and can track progress.   Athletic improvement can be accomplished in a systematic and highly engaging format, allowing the highest level of sports specific endurance.

Athletic Training-- XerPro/XerTrainer can be utilized to improve:

• First step (reaction) quickness
• Reaction time
• Dynamic balance and postural stability
• Plyometric adaptation in sports specific movements
• Explosive change of direction
• Kinetic chain linking and complex movement patterns

Brain Speed: Delivering the Edge in High Performance

Elite athletes are superior in three main areas: strength, skill, and speed.  Strength training should be general and focus on maximizing cardiovascular and muscular capability.  Skill training is functionally specific; practice makes perfect only if one practices perfectly.

Speed is what truly separates the elite athlete from the good athlete.  Not sprint speed, but rather information processing speed, also called reaction speed - the recognition of stimulus and ability to react quickly and EFFICIENTLY to that stimulus.   Efficiency also depends on peripheral awareness and visual memory.  It is recognition of patterns, memory, and mental preparation combined with the ability to apply strategy and technique under pressure.

For years, coaches have searched for the “ultimate tool” for speed development.  Physical speed is the manifestation of what goes on in the athlete’s mind before he reacts.  Mind speed is the essence of greatness. According to neurologist, Dr. Carla Hannaford in her book Smart Moves...

Research indicates that when both eyes, both ears, and both feet are being equally used, the corpus callosum (responsible for whole brain processing) orchestrating these processes between the right and left hemisphere becomes more fully developed – cognitive function is heightened and ease of learning increases.
Sportwall training enables athletes to merge the mental and the physical.  It continually pushes the athlete to higher levels of intensity, which in turn pushes performance by the neurological system.
Regular use will literally improve the speed at which the mind functions. 


How?
Movement specialist M.A. Greenstein, Ph.D., in a Q & A session on Facebook wrote that exercise is “important for generating blood and oxygen flow.  This results in neurotransmitter release (which) has been shown to boost strength of synaptic bonding, stimulating glial cell activity for information flow”.

The faster an athlete’s mind works, the slower the game appears, leaving more time to apply strategy and technique.  That is what is meant by being in the “zone” or what sport psychologists call the “flow”.
Sportwall programs accomplish this by encouraging right and left brain intelligence and balance.  It coaxes the player to perform movements that develop the corpus callosum, the super highway of connective motor and sensory axons that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.

Dr. Greenstein writes, “There is an important correlation between the use of spatial intelligence and long term memory. Movement, cardiovascular exercise can help to grow the area of our brain that creates new memories—the hippocampus”. She notes the work of Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Ratey, who says that 20-30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise enables more “fruitful synaptic bonding”.  

In fact, movement is essential to the development of all four lobes of the brain. As activity in all lobes of both hemispheres increase with movement, more dendritic connections form, myelination increases, and those dendritic connections extend across the corpus callosum.

The better the connection between hemispheres, the more intelligently we are able to function. Maximum proficiency at critical thought, or skilled movement, requires peak activity of both hemispheres. This is how Sportwall activity promotes whole brain thinking.