The Midwest's Premier Athletic Training Facility : Speedstrength

The Midwest's Premier Athletic Training Facility

PERFORMANCE TRAINING FOR THE YOUTH, RECREATION, HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE AND PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE.

NO MATTER THE AGE
NO MATTER THE SPORT
NO MATTER THE SKILL LEVEL
NO MATTER THE GOAL....We can help you get there!

Established in 2000, Speed Strength Systems, Inc. is recognized as the Midwest’s premier performance training facility, assisting professional and amateur athletes of all levels and sports in all aspects of training and conditioning.

Speed Strengh Systems, founded by Tim Robertson Jr, MS, CSCS and Eric Lichter (currently serving as Director of Football Performance at Ohio State University) provides a variety of training services at its two locations : Euclid and Avon. Some services include: sport-specific strength and speed training; youth, high school, collegiate and professional-individual and team training; high school and NFL/NBA Combine training; training for executives; sports nutrition, sports injury rehabilitation; and more.

Our training philosophy is for the maximum development of speed and power through the use of functional movements. We incorporate a wide variety of training methods through scientifically supported ground based, mulit-joint strength and speed exercises, Olympic strength-power training, flexibility, balance, agility, injury prevention (post-injury rehab), and sport-specific training. At the miniumum, all coaches at Speed Strength possess a bachelor's degree in sport science and have worked in the capacity as a college or professional strength and conditioning coach.

Speed Strength has been featured in a number of national and local sports-based publications and outlets, including: ESPN.com; the Sporting News; Hoops Hype.com; The New York Post; The New York Daily News; STACK Magazine; The Arizona Republic; SLAM Magazine; Giants.com; Pro Football Weekly; The Cleveland Plain Dealer; WKNR Sports Talk Radio, Cleveland; Cleveland News-Herald; Sun News; The Canton Repository; Akron Beacon Journal; and Cleveland-based ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC affiliates.

In 2004, The Speed Strength Show was a weekly sports training radio show on WKNR 850 AM, Northeast Ohio’s top sports radio station. The Speed Strength Show featured training tips, as well as interviews with top amateur and professional athletes from Speed Strength’s client list, which includes/has included:

LeBron James
Ted Ginn Jr.- Miami Dolphins

Antonio Gates - San Diego Chargers
Nate Clements - San Francisco 49ers
London Fletcher -Washington Redskins
LeCharles Bentley - Cleveland Browns
Joe Jurevicious - Cleveland Browns
Tony Fisher - St. Louis Rams
Ron Dayne - Houston Texans
Donte Whitner- Buffalo Bills
Nene Hilario - Denver Nuggets
Leandro Barbosa - Phoenix Suns
Julius Hodge - Denver Nuggets
Brian Anderson - Kansas City Royals
Matt Kata - Pittsburgh Pirates

Featured Media

LeBron James - As featured in STACK Magazine, Premiere Issue, 2005.

[All article text and photos reproduced with permission of STACK L.L.C]

Exactly how did LeBron James become perhaps the greatest high school basketball player ever?

Sweat through his high school training program and see how you stack up.

An exclusive look at the training that elevated LeBron and his high school team to legendary status.

THE CHOSEN PROGRAM

Unless you’ve been living on Mars for the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly heard of St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, and its former phenom LeBron James.

St. V and LeBron experienced an unprecedented worldwide media blitz and countless accolades for their success. But exactly how did LeBron and St. Vincent – St. Mary become known as perhaps the greatest high school basketball player and team ever?

It’s June 2002 and the phone rings at Speed Strength Systems in Cleveland, Ohio. On the other end of the line is Dry Joyce, St. V’s head basketball coach. Joyce has heard what Speed Strength accomplished with rising basketball stare Nene and J.R. Bremer (Nene and Bremer ranked tops out of all potential NBA prospects in athletic testing prior to the 2002 NBA draft) and wants to know if Speed Strength founders Eric Lichter and Tim Robertson will train LeBron and the rest of the team.

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Ted Ginn Jr - As featured in Columbus Monthly Magazine, September 2005.

["Watch Ted Ginn Run" - by Eric Lyttle. All article text and photos reproduced with permission of Columbus Monthly Magazine]

It all looks so easy for Ohio State's Heisman candidate while he races down the football field faster than a speeding bullet. Appearances can be deceiving.

Ted Ginn Sr. was sitting at home watching on television last year when his son, Ted Jr., became a college football superstar. He scored three touchdowns in three different ways for Ohio State against Michigan State that Saturday in November. He took an end-around 17 yards for a touchdown midway through the first quarter. Barely a minute later, he scooped up a bouncing punt and hit high gear in two strides, blowing by Spartan defenders for a 60-yard score. And then, after Michigan State had taken a 19-17 lead, Ginn grabbed a short pass with 1:37 remaining and left two defenders looking at the name on the back of his No. 7 jersey as he ran 58 yards for the game winner.

"When Teddy caught the ball - BOOM! - he put eight yards between them before the corner could even blink."

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