Accelerator Program
Youth Athletic Development
The Accelerator Program is Speed Mechanics’ flagship youth training program — a tiered, coach-led development system for athletes aged 9 to 18. Built on long-term athletic development principles, every session, every progression, and every test is designed with one goal: to make your athlete better, more resilient, and more prepared for whatever sport demands of them.
This isn’t a workout class. It’s a development program.
Youth Athletic Development Pathway
A crucial foundation for aspiring athletes, focusing on skill acquisition, movement fundamentals, and establishing a strong base for future athletic endeavors. An optimal environment for athletes to hone their techniques, build fundamental skills, and lay the groundwork for sustained athletic success throughout their developmental journey.
A pivotal phase designed to refine skills, build confidence, and increase strength, power, & speed specific to an athlete’s chosen sport. Structured training and progressive workouts, fostering athletes’ physical and mental capabilities to excel at higher levels of competition.
Where athletes refine their sport-specific skills, tactical understanding, and competition strategies to excel in high-level contests. This stage emphasizes intense training, mental fortitude, and specialized coaching, preparing athletes to perform at their peak in competitive settings and tournaments.
The culmination of dedicated training, strategic preparation, and mental readiness, aimed at achieving top-level success in elite competitions. This phase focuses on optimizing performance, refining winning strategies, and harnessing peak physical and mental capabilities to secure victories at the highest levels of athletic achievement.
Train to a Standard. Level Up When You Earn It.
Athletes progress through five levels each representing a higher standard of speed, strength, and power. Levels are based on objective performance standards, not age or time in the program. When you hit the standard, you level up.
Progress is tracked every session. Testing happens quarterly using our VALD sports science lab, so athletes and parents can see exactly where they’re at. No guesswork.
And when an athlete levels up? They ring the Personal Best (PB) bell. The whole gym stops and claps. New t-shirt. Name on the whiteboard moves up. It’s a moment, because it should be.
Activate — The starting point. Foundational movement, baseline testing, and building the habits that make everything else possible.
Boost — The foundation is working. Training load increases, standards climb, and athletes begin to feel what real development looks like.
Challenge — This is where athletes separate themselves. Demands are high, standards are real, and the athletes who reach this level have put in the work to get here.
Dominate — Elite-level standards within the program. Athletes at this level are training at a quality that transfers directly to high school and club sport performance.
Elite — Reserved for our highest-performing athletes and those transitioning into our collegiate Momentum Program. This is the top of the system.