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Youth Programs
Engineered Bodies offers the following age and skill-appropriate programs for youth:
- Active Start (ages 3-5): This 30 min class is for introducing kids to
physical activity and learning about what their body can do. Kids will
explore human movement (various locomotion patterns, hanging, jumping)
through fun games and play-oriented learning.
- FUNdamentals (ages 5-8): Our FUNdamentals stage is the first stage in our LTAD Program at Engineered Bodies. Students in our FUNdamentals stage go through the movement-quality-based curriculum and develop their physical literacy, body awareness, coordination, fundamental movement skills, mental focus, and self-confidence through engaging in movement games, challenges, and play.
- Learn to Train (ages 8-13): This stage aims to educate our students
and their parents on how to safely strength train in a gym. When
students enter this stage of our LTAD Program, they will learn how to
properly execute basic calisthenic exercises like push-ups, pull-ups,
and their progressions. Students also learn how to execute basic barbell movements like squats, and deadlifts properly, and even more
technical movements like the snatch and clean and jerk using dowels and
light weights. Students learn about basic anatomy and physiology, the
importance of healthy joint mobility, and the purpose and benefits of
strength training in the gym. They also learn mobility exercises that
will help to improve their flexibility and mobility and help them
mitigate injury.
- Train to Train & Compete (ages 14-17): Student athletes who enter into the final stage of our LTAD program are experienced with strength training in the gym and compete in their desired sport at a high level. The purpose of this stage of their development is to train in the gym to increase and improve specific fitness characteristics like muscular strength, muscular endurance, and power output which increases their capacity to be able to express movement in their desired sport. Students follow their own customized training programs designed by EB strength coaches that are specific to their goals. Students then train alongside other student athletes of different sports which mean volleyball players, soccer players, basketball players, and weightlifters train alongside each other making it an engaging and exciting training environment.
[Y] Active Start CAD$28 Purchase required to enroll
For ages 3-5. This 30 min class is for introducing kids to physical active and learning about what their body can do. Kids will explore human movement (various locomotion patterns, hanging, jumping) through fun games and play-oriented learning.
[Y] FUNdamentals CAD$28 Purchase required to enroll
For ages 6-8. This 30 min class is for kids that may be starting sports or starting to
become more interested in physical activity. Kids in this class will
build on Active Start skills as well as be introduced to fundamental
skills of run, jump, and throw, along with bilateral and unilateral movements.
[Y] Learn to Train Purchase required to enroll
For ages 8 to 14. Introduction to the sport of weightlifting for kids. Students learn how to strength train while learning the classic lifts (Snatch and Clean & Jerk) among other assistance exercises using barbells and body weight callisthenics. This class is ongoing and can be joined at any time.
[Y] Train to Train Purchase required to enroll
For ages 14-18. Independent training program for middle-school or high-school athletes looking to improve their athletic capacity for their sport. Students of this program will learn how to perform basic barbell lifts and body-weight callisthenics to increase their strength and power.