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Athletigen Performance Therapy Program – April highlights
Sunday marked the successful completion of the inaugural trilogy of the Athletigen Performance Therapy Program. In what was described by Altis Medical Director - Dr Gerry Ramogida - as a “nonstop education tsunami” the four day event involved a unique collaboration between coaches and therapists from around the world - intent on synergistic sharing and learning. “Through Performance Therapy, we...
Altis partners with Movement Restoration
Altis is excited to today unveil the launch of a strategic partnership with leading Arizona massage therapy practice - Movement Restoration; a move set to further advance the industry-leading services offered to Altis athletes. With a notable record of serving long-term clients including Olympians and Professional sports-people, Movement Restoration founder, and one of Arizona’s most sought-after massage therapists - Trisha...
Highlights: Athletigen Performance Therapy Program
Following hot on the heels of the March edition of the Gill Athletics Apprentice Coach Program, this past weekend saw the successful conclusion of the second Athletigen Performance Therapy Program. Over the four day program, Athletigen PTP guests were treated to a world-class line up of lectures featuring WAC Medical Director - Dr Gerry Ramogida; Director of Education - Coach...
The week that was…
In a week which marked the ending of a dominant start to 2015 for Altis, this week's performance highlights include Personal Records, a National Championships medal and a World Championship win in the Bobsled. “It’s been a really successful indoor season” said Performance Director Stuart McMillan. “We saw a number of Personal Records and a few of our athletes competed...
Another World Leading result from Altis
This week produced a series of Personal Records as in-form athletes continued to gain competitive momentum. The highlight of the past 7 days undoubtedly came from Christabel Nettey - who on Thursday night during a thrilling competition at the XL Galan in Stockholm, leapt to a World Leading mark; shattering the Canadian national Long Jump record. Stockholm, Sweden Christabel Nettey...
The Altis Internship Experience
Coach Mike Boykin is mid-way through a year-long, full-time Internship with Altis. A recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mike formerly served as a volunteer assistant coach with the women’s sprints, hurdles, and multi-events under the tutelage of Nate Davis and Ed Nuttycombe. Prior to joining Altis, Mike interned with various teams at UW-Madison, Quinnipiac University, and Northeastern University....
Apprentice Coach Program – January 2015 highlights
Last week saw a truly global edition of the Apprentice Coach Program take place - with coaches from South Africa, Wales, Holland and the USA sharing in a week of gold standard interaction and coach education. As always, our visiting coaches spent the first part of the day trackside, before moving onto our partner facility - EXOS - to continue...
Altis embraces cutting edge Sports Genetics research
Following on the heels of another excellent Apprentice Coach Program (hopefully you followed along on our Twitter feed for live tweets throughout the week) we are very excited to soon be welcoming Dr Jeremy Koenig - CEO of sports genetics company Athletigen - to Altis. Interest in sports genetics has soared in the last couple of years (most probably due...
Highlights from the inaugural Performance Therapy Program
Early December saw the long-awaited inaugural Altis Performance Therapy Program take place. Delivered primarily by our Medical Director Dr Gerry Ramogida, this Program has been almost 20 years in the making. As defined by the founder of this concept - our Education Director - Dan Pfaff, Performance Therapy is “an integrated process, whereby medical expertise combines with athlete-coach feedback loops...
History in the making
Today Altis athletes Elana Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Humphries will make history as they become the first females to compete in a World Cup bobsled race against men in Calgary, Canada. Traditionally, only men have been allowed to compete in four-man bobsled events; but - following FIBT approval to make four-man bobsled gender-neutral in September - two-time Olympic gold medalist...