Performance Summits

Peter Twist is the President & CEO of Twist Conditioning Inc. He coached in the National Hockey League for 11 years and is currently a consultant for several NHL players and agents. An exercise physiologist with a M.Sc and a specialization in Coaching Science, Twist has published over 400 papers, authored 10 books and 19 DVD’s on athlete development, while coaching over 700 professional athletes including league MVP’s Mark Messier (hockey), Justin Morneau (baseball) and Hakeem Olajuwon (basketball). A headline presenter at all major international sport and fitness conferences, including IDEA, NSCA, MultiTrax, FitPro, CanFitPro, ECA and the Australian Fitness Network, Peter was honored with the National Strength & Conditioning Association's 1998 Presidents Award and Can-Fit-Pro 2003 Specialty Presenter of the Year Award.

Presentation Presentation:

Developing Whole Body Strength and Power

Join Peter for a session dedicated to meeting the unpredictable and heightened demands of sport through the development of strength, power, and durability.

This session will focus on tried and tested strength and power training considerations from the Twist Team of Conditioning Coaches,  including pre workout neuromuscular activation, variable ROM force development, manipulations of lines of push/pull, mind-muscle compliance,  applying  the force absorption/production relationship, and rotation based force application and deceleration.

Recovery and regeneration techniques to allow for muscle repair and adaptation will be discussed and demonstrated. 

Whether you work with pro’s or average Joe’s, this session will provide you with innovative ideas that will help take your athletes and your training to a new level, adding excitement to bust through existing strength plateaus.

Summit Presentation:

Teaching Movement Training : Purposeful Progressions that lead to Perfect Performance

Getting your feet moving in training sessions has literally exploded in the sport conditioning and fitness industries over the past 5 years.  Plyometrics, agility, and speed training can be utilized with a diverse group from the elite athlete, to the weekend warrior, to a 10 year old aspiring athletes.  The goal of any training session should be to maximize transfer from the training floor to the desired playing environment. Are you using the right progressions or driving your athletes to physiotherapists?

This lecture will introduce you to the proper training techniques and progressions for safely training agility and plyometrics.  You will learn the scientific foundation for the use of this type of training to augment speed and power development. This session also provides detailed video progressions for beginner to advanced exercises.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A research and experience driven look at Integrating Balance into Functional Training and Sport Conditioning.

Join Andrew for an informative and interactive research driven session on Integrated Balance training. Over the last 5 years, the amount of research on training for balance as it relates to sport performance has increased significantly. Through lecture, open discussion, and video analysis, Andrew will examine the balance controversy to help clarify the research by presenting and discussing studies that both support and oppose training on an unstable surface. The purpose of this session is to increase your knowledge about the Integration of Balance into your workouts and provide a more in depth understanding of this essential component of the Twist Sport Performance Paradigm.