What sets Fowler Fitness apart from other athletic training services?
It is our job to help our athletes attain the highest level of physical preparedness and competitive advantage in their respective sport by utilizing advanced, evidence-based training methods, nutrition, and recovery strategies.
Fowler Fitness is one of the very few hardcore training services in the greater Houston area designed for serious athletes that offers an authentic, science-layered training approach for improving on-field performance, AND a great environment to train in! We use ONLY the researched backed, fundamental training methodologies employed by some of the worlds top strength and conditioning specialists. While numerous coaches and training facilities alike claim to be “science-based”, many are no more than expensive day-care, entertaining athletes and parents with the latest training fad, gimmick, or fancy machine. At Fowler Fitness, we spend a considerable amount of time researching the most effective ways to train our athletes, so you can be sure you’re getting your money’s worth!
What are your hours?
Monday-Friday : 3pm-8pm
How long do training sessions last?
Around 60-90min, some may be shorter. Sessions are based on the amount of work that needs to be completed by the athlete.
What Are Sessions Like?
Sessions are small group style, usually ranging from 5-10 athletes per group.
What’s The Gym Like?
Fowler Fitness operates as a warehouse style gym in The Woodlands, TX. Unlike your commercial gym or “performance” center, it offers an extremely fun, hardcore, and motivating environment to train in. In addition, the gym offers an impressive amount of unique equipment and advanced training tools that you won’t be able to find anywhere else!
What methods do you use?
Fowler Fitness implements a unique blend of conjugate, linear, and pendulum periodization models, combined with a velocity oriented training approach. A velocity oriented training approach is based on the force-velocity profiles of specific sports, and where the athlete’s strengths and weaknesses fall on this same velocity curve. By doing this, we can create a training program that is more sports specific while simultaneously annihilating their weaknesses. Our training programs take a step-by-step approach to improving measurable qualities like 40 Yard dash, vertical jump, squat, and bench press so you can be SURE that you’re getting better and not just wasting your time. Most of our athletes notice considerable improvements in their movement quality, strength, and explosiveness within the first few weeks of training. Each training program is custom-made based on age, experience level, and goals.
Do You Use Any Tests?
Yes. Before beginning a training program, all athletes are required to take a neurological profiling test. This test is designed to determine an athletes neurotransmitter dominance. By determining whether an athlete is Dopamine dominant, Acetyl-choline dominant, or GABA dominant, we can gauge how an athlete will respond to training intensity, volume, and variety. This allows us to accommodate the athlete with a unique program specifically designed around his/her inherent strengths & weaknesses.
In addition, Fowler Fitness works with Nutrishop The Woodlands to provide athletes with a body composition analysis test and a customized diet plan. This test allows us to determine exactly what foods and supplements our athletes should take and AVOID according to their unique body type.
I’ve heard that speed ladder and “fast feet” drills are necessary for speed and agility training. Why don’t you implement them?
Speed is our specialty. Most speed and agility “coaches” take a flawed approach by implementing countless speed ladder, quick feet, and other running drills into their programming. How many times have you heard the phrase “slow feet don’t eat”? Instead we should be saying: powerful feet don’t eat! Countless studies have shown that these methods are flat out ineffective due to factors such as reduced forces into the ground, and lack of sports specificity
Who Uses These Methods?
Our training methods get you results. Plain and simple. That’s why world class strength & conditioning coaches like Charles Poliquin, Louie Simmons, Pierre Roy, and Yuri Vrkhoshansky use them as well.
How Do You Train Your Athletes For Agility?
Instead of focusing on drills, we look at the root of the problem by asking: why are you slow in the first place? Instead of doing more speed drills INCORRECTLY, we go in and correct the faulty recruitment patterns and muscle imbalances that lie at the heart of the issue. Once these issues have been resolved, we implement Tri-Phasic training: a unique system designed to improve on field agility by optimizing the athletes eccentric, isometric, and concentric strength qualities. In addition to our corrective exercise and Tri-Phasic programming, we randomly implement agility based challenge workouts. Agility has not only a neuromuscular component (change of direction), but also visual, auditory, and cognitive components. These workouts are designed to challenge all 4 of these key elements simultaneously, making our methods far superior to other popular approaches to agility training.
How Do You Train Your Athletes For Speed?
HSD: Heavy Sled Drags. While many coaches and training facilities like to use overspeed treadmill sprints, we prefer HSD for a few reasons:
1) More force into the ground: Because treadmills “pull” you along, force is reduced. This is undesirable for Team Sports athletes who must rely on efficient force production for short bursts of acceleration.
2) HSD acts as a special strength exercise. By slowing down the speed of the movement with a heavier load, we can engrain proper motor patterns and optimal joint angles (forward lean, positive shin angle) for actual sprinting while simultaneously building up the “power” or “acceleration” muscles (quads, hamstrings, gluteus, calves) in a sports specific manner. In addition, HSD allows us to analyze the athelets mechanics more efficiently than other popular methods
Will Lifting weights stunt my child’s growth?
The simple answer: No! All of our younger athletes go through a comprehensive movement and corrective exercise program before attempting resistance training. Studies from the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine shown that properly implemented resistance training programs significantly reduce the chance of all types of injury. Resistance training is a potent stimulus for improving bone growth/development, and density. Studies have also shown that the activities performed in most sports like running, jumping, and tackling produce loads upwards of ten times greater on the body than any strength training exercise performed in the gym.
