The Oakville Royals along with Mind to Muscle are excited to announce that they have joined forces. This new partnership will house all baseball specific strength and conditioning aspects along with providing complete rehabilitation and sports science for Oakville Royal Players. Partnering with Mind to Muscle will enable all Royal players the oppurtunity to work-out at their new state of the art 20,00 sq ft facility located on Kenedy Rd. in Mississauga. Each player will be assest, flaged and monitored throughout the offseason along with quaterly testing to ensure goals and standards are being met.
Oakville Royals Development Plan
Building the Complete Baseball Athlete:
Baseball is an anaerobic based sport, which requires players to sprint, accelerate, decelerate, dive and make reaction plays, throws, swings, and make tactical decisions in a high speed environment. For many Baseball Players the ability to play at a high level depends not just on their baseball skills but also the body that they play baseball with.
For players to be successful in the sport of baseball they must develop efficient movement skills to enable them to move more effectively on the field while controlling and manipulating their body positioning.
The baseball programs developed by Mind to Muscle are designed to establish, build and enhance a baseball player’s athletic skill. Baseball athletes will develop movements, body positioning and decision making which promotes an efficiency of motion on the field as well as reducing the risk and incidence of injury. Baseball training at Mind to Muscle will work to increase their explosiveness, acceleration, reaction time, single leg power, increase vertical power and leg strength to play effectively for a full game.
Training at Mind to Muscle allows the individual baseball player and teams to realize and perform to their potential talent level on the field consistently.
We at Mind to Muscle look forward in working with the Oakville Royals Baseball Club!
Mind to Muscle Sports Conditioning
We are an Athletic Conditioning Centre providing services in:
- Functional movement training and advanced athletic performance.
- The education of athletes, parents and coaches about sport performance.
- Functional movement analysis to identify unique characteristics in a person’s physical profile and performance capabilities.
- Physical conditioning that caters specifically to the developing athlete.
- The development of provincial, national, Olympic, and professional athletes.
- Sport specific conditioning programs that emphasize development of athletic skills complementary to success in a particular activity.
- Team training, conditioning, and physical evaluations.
Mind to Muscle Sports Medicine
We are a Sports Medicine Clinic, providing services of:
- Athletic Therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Sports Medicine Physician and Specialist referrals
- Registered Massage Therapy
- Sports Psychologist
- Acupuncture
- Soft Tissue ReleaseTM
Mind to Muscle Philosophy
- Developing athletes have complex and distinct physiological characteristics that require programming to address their unique physical situation. The young athlete should not be considered just a smaller adult. Athletic training programs must contain critical elements to support proper physical development using age appropriate exercises and exercise progressions.
- Mind to Muscle uses a five-stage athletic development system to methodically create training programs that enhance an athlete’s physical development. We dynamically adjust parameters within the training to challenge each athlete, ensuring intensity and results for our athletes.
By dividing the training of young athletes into systematic stages of development, with clearly defined objectives, Mind to Muscle produces outstanding athletes. Our philosophy of training is in direct opposition to a Darwinian approach, where “Survival of the Fittest” alienates most players. Mind to Muscle strives to provide sport specific training that will provide improvements in skilled performance, and decrease the incidence or severity of injuries common to athletes.
- Mind to Muscle trains movement patterns, emphasizing not just the development of the muscles themselves, but more importantly, targeting the efficiency of the nervous system and the body as an entire structure.
- Mind to Muscle develops athletic skills vs. sport specific skills. Athletic skills are actions, movements, body positioning, and decision-making, which promote optimum efficiency of motion for performance within any activity.
- Mind to Muscle develops athletic skills through training techniques that emphasize core stability, total body power development, movement efficiency, body awareness, and energy system specific training.
Athletic Skill Development
- Dynamic core stability - Neuromuscular stabilization - Kinetic flexibility - Multidirectional movement coordination - Neuromuscular power expression - Multidirectional agility - Multidirectional quickness and speed - Neuromuscular strength development - Task-specific energy system development
Medical Services Injury Treatment Services:
1. Immediate injury assessment for Oakville Royals baseball players.
2. Injury treatment rendered upon initial visit.
3. Pediatric care specialists for players of all age groups.
4. Oakville Royals Baseball Club injury report form to establish direct communication between coaches, parents and health care providers.
5. All Oakville Royal players will be required to complete a medical questionnaire prior to the participation at Mind to Muscle.
6. All therapy costs should qualify under para-medical services in parent’s employment benefit plans. Also, may review the alternative insurance policys for treatment services as a secondary resource.
7. Mind to Muscle will assist Oakville Royals Baseball Club to establish working guidelines and criteria for a safe return to play initiative for immediate implementation.
8. Mind to Muscle will provide all injured players advanced treatment that is exercised based in compliance with return to play guidelines.
References
"I have worked with the therapists at Mind to Muscle for several years. The clinic provides superb care to the athletes in a professional, knowledgeable, and caring manner. I have the utmost confidence in their abilities to treat and prevent injuries especially in the young, developing athletes. I would not hesitate to recommend Mind to Muscle to anyone who requires the services of a cutting edge/ progressive sports injury clinic."
Rick Zarnett MD, MSc, FRCS(C) Head Division of Orthopaedic Surgery Humber River Regional Hospital Team Orthopaedic Surgeon, Toronto Argonauts Football Team
"The professionals at Mind to Muscle have consistently provided quality care to my patients. I consider them experts in the treatment of sports injuries. They are committed to determining the cause of injuries, which results in less time away from the playing surface. Mind to Muscle stresses injury prevention, which is paramount in safely allowing young, developing athletes to not only participate but excel in sports of all levels. I feel extremely confident that their abilities allow for optimal outcome of a variety of acute and chronic injuries."
Dr. Tim Rindlisbacher, BSc(PT), MD, Dip. Sport Med.
Director of Sports Health, Cleveland Clinic Canada
Team Physician, Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors
Secretary, Pediatric and Exercise Medicine Committee, Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine
