Athletes

Athletes

Soccer, tennis, and Olympic weightlifting, from club through collegiate and professional. Physical preparation is planned across the competitive year and measured over time.

Sports

Soccer, tennis and Olympic weightlifting

JMP works across many sports. These three carry the most experience and the most specific programming.

Soccer

The primary sport of the practice and the setting the JMP Standard was developed in. Work covers physical preparation across the competitive calendar, return to training alongside a clinician, and squad assessment for clubs.

Tennis

Physical preparation for a sport with a long season and asymmetric demands. Assessment pays particular attention to shoulder and trunk, and to the deceleration demands of each playing surface.

Olympic weightlifting

Technical coaching and programming for the snatch and clean and jerk, including athletes who use the lifts to develop power for another sport.

Levels seen

  • ClubCommunity through competitive tiers
  • ProvincialProvincial and national programmes
  • CollegiateNCAA Division I and U Sports
  • ProfessionalProfessional and semi-professional

What each plan develops

What a soccer programme develops: acceleration and repeat sprints, change of direction, strength for contact and kicking, and movement quality.
Soccer
What a tennis programme develops: lateral movement and recovery, rotational power, shoulder and trunk strength, and movement quality.
Tennis
What a weightlifting programme develops: snatch technique, clean and jerk technique, power for the lifts and for sport, and movement quality.
Weightlifting

Youth development

Athletes who are still growing

Maturity bands  ·  volume ceilings  ·  frequent reassessment

A single under-14 squad often holds athletes four or more years apart in biological maturity. Each athlete's training reflects their own maturity band.

Measured

Growth stage

Stature, sitting height, mass, and parental height, taken at intake and at each reassessment.

Assigned

Maturity band

Pre-PHV, circa-PHV, or post-PHV. Where methods disagree, the more conservative band applies.

Applied

Volume ceiling

The band sets a ceiling on volume, repetition range and impact that the programme stays within.

Repeated

Reassessment

Every three months through the growth spurt, because an athlete can change band inside one season.

Module 03, youth to performance. The maturity band sets training volume, alongside age. Youth, development and performance athletes carry progressively more volume.
Volume by maturity
Module 02, the training year. Training volume is planned across twelve months, around school and the athlete's season, in phases to build, compete and recover.
The training year

The JMP Academy

Soccer and tennis, youth to performance

The JMP Academy develops soccer and tennis players from youth through performance. Six principles shape it.

The JMP Academy. Soccer and tennis, youth to performance. Six principles of the academy.
01, measured. Strength, speed and movement, measured. Each programme reflects the athlete's results.
02, the client record. One record for every athlete. Assessments, training, health data and agreements are kept in one record.
03, the training year. Training volume planned across the year. Training, competition and rest are set around school and the athlete's season.
04, youth development. Volume follows maturity. The maturity band sets training volume, alongside age, and changes as the athlete grows.
05, safeguarding. A guardian is present at every session with a minor athlete.
06, the family record. The record belongs to the family. A full copy is available at any time. JMP keeps a copy for its records.
JMP Sports. Health and long-term athlete development. Calgary, Alberta.

The JMP Standard  ·  03

Youth development

Maturity estimation  ·  volume ceilings  ·  reassessment

Canada Soccer's Long-Term Player Development model, Tennis Canada's pathway, and Sport for Life's national framework share one principle: young athletes train according to their biological maturity.

Module 03 sets out how JMP applies that principle: how maturity is estimated without imaging, what each stage permits, when reassessment is triggered, and which findings pause a session and involve a clinician. It is published in full, limitations included.

Read module 03  Coach certification

The JMP Standard
Youth Development

Module 03  ·  Version 1  ·  Calgary, Alberta

  • Maturity estimated without imaging
  • Volume ceilings by growth stage
  • Reassessment intervals and triggers
  • Referral indicators
  • Consent, records, and conduct
  • Stated limitations
Read the standard

Short films

Short films for athletes

Short films on how JMP approaches athletic development.

Individual programmes
Biological maturity
Recovery
The athlete record
The training year

Scope of practice JMP Sports Inc. provides physical assessment, training, and athletic preparation. It is not a regulated health profession, does not diagnose or treat injury or illness, and nothing here is medical advice. Anyone with a current injury, a medical condition, or a clinician's restriction should consult their physician or physiotherapist; programming is carried out in coordination with them.