COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAMS
Our programs have been honed over 35 years in the results driven world of elite athletics, and with thousands of athletes who have chosen our science based approach to achieving complex performance goals.
PHASE IV offers the most comprehensive science based training and nutrition programs available anywhere! We make you better, and keep you healthy and competing longer. If you are interested in improving your performance, and preventing injury, we will design a periodized daily training plan for you, complete with nutritional optimization, as well as strength and flexibility training.
Pictured here is CEO Robert Forster, PT and Florence Griffith Joyner “Flo-Jo” The fastest sprinter of all time.
Heart Rate Training Programs
At PHASE IV our team of experts assess and train athletes in two broad areas of athletic performance: structural preparedness and metabolic energy production. The ability to produce energy efficiently to meet the demands of your sport is paramount for success. At PHASE IV we utilize scientific data culled from physiological assessments including RMR and VO2 testing. From these results we create a customized measurable Periodization Heart Rate Training Plan, and it has consistently produced the best athletic performances across all sports for the past thirty-five years!
Pictured here is World Champion PHASE IV athlete Helen Maroulis, the first woman wrestler in USA history to win Olympic Gold.
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Run Training for Conditioning
The PHASE IV Running Package draws on Forster’s expertise that spans 9 Olympic Games. Helping athletes achieve injury free peak performance and aerobic conditioning is PHASE IV’s mission.
The PHASE IV Running Package is the most complete science based training program available anywhere. This program uses scientific analysis to unlock the intricacies of personal physiology, and replaces the guesswork that characterizes most generic coaching programs. We will first analyze the aspects of healthy running: your current fitness, strength and weaknesses including flexibility, functional joint stability, and alignment, running mechanics, nutrition, and recovery strategies. From this data your team of exercise physiologists and physical therapists will construct and guide you through a comprehensive running program tailored to optimize your genetic potential.
Pictured here is PHASE IV athlete Allyson Felix crossing the 200m finish line to win Gold in the London Olympic Games.
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Periodized Strength Training
Periodization strength training breaks the training program into cycles (or periods) where fitness is developed in a scientifically rational sequence. After about six-to-eight weeks of the same activity the body becomes stronger and can handle the load without experiencing stress; performance will then fade if the exercise stimulus is not altered in such a way as to create new stress on the body, and peak hormone production again.Your PHASE IV team is using state-of-the-science training methods to set up your plan of Periodized Strength Training. Matching the requirements of your sport, you will be educated in proper strength development, stretching, warm up, cool down, and aggressive recovery techniques.
Pictured here is PHASE IV athlete World Racing Champion Rebecca Ruysch, who credits Forster for “teaching her body how to ride her bike.”
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POWER AND SPEED TRAINING
The purpose of the entire Periodization Training Program is to bring your power, speed, and conditioning to a peak for a given event or competition. Cycles of hard work and active recovery are orchestrated to build fitness throughout the training period; and when we reduce the workload, your fitness, power, and speed will skyrocket. This is the essence of periodization training, and it is the most neglected concept of exercise and fitness.
In many sports speed is a critical requisite for success. Faster movement and times are achieved with mechanical efficiency to conserve energy, and by building power and speed.
At PHASE IV your Power and Speed Training Performance Specialists will periodize your training into phases. This will build the proper foundation for a fitness pyramid that includes injury prevention, functional joint stability, core strength, endurance, power, and speed.
Pictured here is PHASE IV OLYMPIC AND WORLD HEPTATHLON CHAMPION, Jackie Joyner Kersee, whose legendary Olympic performances have crowned her, “The Greatest Female Athlete of All Time.”
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PHASE IV WATERPOWER PERFORMANCE© PROGRAM
Working against water’s natural resistance makes for a healthier more balanced workout than is possible on land, with virtually no risk of damage to the body. For both exercise programs as well as rehabilitation, active recovery, and cross training, pool workouts build aerobic and anaerobic fitness, muscle strength and tone, flexibility, speed, good body alignment and agility. The PHASE IV Waterpower Performance Program© can be conducted either in our private facility, your home, or other location.
Pictured here is the United States most decorated World Champion, Allyson Felix with CEO Robert Forster, PT at Forster Physical Therapy pool in Santa Monica, California. Allyson rehabbed a severe ankle injury just weeks before the Olympic Trials. Like so many others before her, Allyson emerged from Forster’s WATERPOWER© workouts to post a world record in the 2016 Olympic trials. She advanced to Rio for her 4th Olympic Games; and surpassed Jackie Joyner Kersee, as the winningest female in USA Olympic history.
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THE COMPLETE FORSTER STRUCTURE PROGRAM©
FUNCTIONAL JOINT STABILITY | INJURY PREVENTION | ADVANCED RECOVERY | STRENGTH | FLEXIBILITY
The Complete Forster Structure Program© is the foundation of all of our personal training and exercise programs. The Forster Structure Program will bring your fitness to a peak as you progress through the comprehensive phases of Periodization training. Following your head-to-toe Structural Exam performed by a Physical Therapist, you will receive a personalized training program for your use at home or in your own fitness center, as well as four personal training sessions at PHASE IV to instruct you in core strength, posture exercises, Periodization weight training, stretching, and plyometric exercises specific to each phase. This program will start by providing the basic stretching and strengthening exercises required to prevent injury and provide the structural essentials to remain healthy and maintain joint function and stability. This will lead to efficiency and injury prevention for sport and general health. Delivered with the professional guidance of an experienced Sports Physical Therapist & Exercise Physiologist, this program includes the essential exercises necessary to achieve functional and balanced joint stability, advanced flexibility, and core strength. Pictured here is PHASE IV athlete, World Greco Roman Wrestling Champion, and two time MMA World Champion, Joe Warren, the Forster Training Systems Athlete of the year. Call PHASE IV 310-582-8212 or send us a messagePERSONAL TRAINING AT PHASE IV
Our training programs are based on your particular needs as gleaned from a joint-by-joint, head-to-toe structural examination and analysis performed by the most experienced Forster Physical Therapy clinicians. The result is a carefully instructed and monitored personal training program that addresses your personal issues and vulnerabilities with only the safest, most effective exercises, handpicked for their efficacy with minimal risk of injury.
PHASE IV training with a master sports medicine physical therapist includes 10-15 minutes of expert massage every session to address your vulnerable areas, while the exercises work to resolve them.
- • Perfect for people with joint and tendon injuries, arthritic conditions, and anyone vulnerable to such problems
- • Our strength and conditioning programs are the best foundation for healthy weight loss
- • Personal training is expedient and perfect for the time-crunched professionals, and even busy mom’s
- • Personal Training will bring your fitness to a peak with the same scientific principles we use with our elite athletes
- • Personal Training programs can be customized to include metabolic training and nutritional optimization to address weight management issues
Women’s Group Weight Training
To increase your metabolism and strength while getting lean and toned, you need to weight train! Lean muscle burns more calories so if you want to decrease body fat, perform better, train for an event or just look & feel great, this class is for you.
About the Class:
A Weight Training class for Women of all ages and abilities.
Each class will consist of a total body workout designed to increase muscular strength and speed up your metabolism.
The class will follow our PHASE IV fitness principles.
This is a fun, energetic, group workout with fantastic music alongside other like-minded women (NO MEN) that will alleviate stress and leave you feeling great.
Class is designed to train your body properly through scientific principles, no guess work!
Why Weight Training for woman?
• Increase your resting metabolism
• Decrease blood pressure & body fat
• Reduce bone deterioration and build bone mass to prevent osteoporosis
Weight training done properly and with planning will NOT give you large muscles, but will increase your metabolism which burns more calories. Transform your body into an efficient machine with the tone that we all strive to attain!
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