Mission Statement:
The mission of this Athletic Performance program is to provide a safe, fun, and challenging training environment that helps student-athletes maximize their physical and mental potential while helping prepare them for life after sport.
Core Values:
EFFORT: Push outside your comfort zone, do not cut corners, do the little things right, hustle
ATTITUDE: Be coachable, bring energy, culture, body language
TEAM FIRST: Mentor teammates, culture, uphold standards
DEDICATION: Sacrifice, show up and on time, healthy choices, accountability
Training Principles:
- Injury reduction
- Plan / Goal Oriented / Adaptability
- Specificity
- Overload
- Variation
- Challenge Physically & Mentally
- Movement Quality
- Intent Driven
Hours of Operation:
The varsity weight room hours are based on the time of year (summer, fall, winter, & spring) and the student-athletes academic and practice schedule.
Facility Usage:
The varsity weight room is available to student-athletes who have completed and passed a physical exam through UMB’s Sports Medicine Department along with all other medical proper paperwork. The student-athlete must be cleared by compliance and academically eligible.
Weightroom Standards:
- Be on time
- Wear the correct clothing
- No clothing (shirts, sweatshirts, shorts, pants, hats, etc.) with logos from other schools or teams. (No other teams…You are a BEACON now).
- If this happens send the student-athlete to locker room/bathroom to flip clothing inside out, change shirts or put tape over logo.
- Sneakers with laces tied before entering the room OR you can train shoeless
- If you train shoeless you are accepting & understanding of the injuries that can happen ex. Dropping weight on foot/toes
- No boat shoes, crocs, boots, etc., you must wear training shoes.
- No personal items in the weight room
- This includes backpacks, coats, headphones, cell phones, etc.
- Valuables can be stored in weight room
- No Sitting
- Spotters must be used when necessary
- Collars must be always used
- Have PRIDE in the weight room
- Clean up after yourself and your teammates
- Respect the equipment
- Only clean music can be played
- You can create a Spotify play list that is clean
- NO cell phones in weight room unless they are being stored away
- Being caught on your cell phone during a lift is an automatic ejection from the training session
- Communication
- Email athletic performance coach
The Athletic Performance staff reserves the right to approve or deny entry into the varsity weight room to any UMB student-athlete, non-student-athlete, or non-athletic staff.
