Whittier College Strength and Conditioning

Mission Statement:

Whittier College Strength and Conditioning is committed to administer a comprehensive, efficient, and effective strength and conditioning program. We will be providing each student athlete with an innovative program to help prevent injury and to improve athletic performance.

Our goal is to maximize the athletic potential of each student-athlete by:

• Developing individualized programs based on scientifically proven principles tailored to enhance each athletes needs.
• Performing sport-specific training movements for each individual position.
• Incorporating Olympic lifts such as cleans, snatch, and jerks to improve explosiveness, power, and strength.
• Emphasizing speed in performance with a variety of plyometrics; we want our athletes to be FAST!
• Training the core. We will develop pillar strength.
• Incorporate stability and balance exercises that focus on intrinsic muscle groups to help decrease the risk of injury.
• Agility exercises that help the athletes explosively brake, change direction, accelerate, and decelerate.
• Improving range of motion through dynamic flexibility exercises.

Ultimately, Whittier student-athletes are expected to work hard to improve their athleticism. Positive attitudes and effort is what we ask them to bring. We expect our athletes to not only improve physically, but to also develop a passion for training that is equivalent to their hunger for competition.