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Burn Sports Performance Programs are crafted by experts, not by computers.  We use the following functional and developmental principles which are based in Human Movement Science and Athletic Conditioning:

  • Assessment before Training
  • Periodization Plans from 24 hr to 12 month
  • Systematic and Progressive
  • Prehab before Rehab
  • Performance before Aesthetics
  • Train Movements, not Muscles
  • Isolation before Integration
  • Postural Alignment and Muscle Balance
  • Movement Skills before Sport Specific Skills
  • Functional Strength and Performance
  • Core Strength before Extremity Strength
  • Body Weight before External Resistance
  • Joint Integrity before Joint Mobility
  • Stability before Strength
  • Strength before Power
  • Intelligence, not Ignorance

To enhance performance, reduce risk of injury and reach your potential, you must train specifically for the demands of your position, for your sport and address your individual strengths & weaknesses.

Performing a trick on a motocross bike that’s flying through the air is not the same as driving a race car at 200 mph for 300 miles, which is not the same as explosively swinging a baseball bat at a small ball that’s traveling 90 mph, which is totally different than being able to last several 5 minute rounds in a mixed martial arts fight, which needs to be trained differently than sprinting at top speed while other athletes are trying to tackle you.  Women are not Men.  Kids are not mini-adults.  Successful Training and Nutrition for athletes is highly individualized.  Most programs are nothing more than generic templates that are based in bodybuilding and include aerobics, neither of which prepare an athlete for the demands of most sports.  The science and art of developing champions requires a scientific, systematic and progressive approach that is designed for each individual athlete, regardless of sport.

  • Burn Sports Training Systems
  • Comprehensive Needs Analysis
  • Biomechanical Movement Analysis 
  • Custom Program Design
  • Injury Prevention & Collision Tolerance
  • Righting & Tilting Reflexes
  • Body-Brain Quickness & Reaction
  • Hand-Eye & Eye-Foot Coordination
  • Multi-Directional Movement Skill
  • Speed Training – linear & lateral
  • First Step Quickness
  • Vertical Jump
  • Posture – static and dynamic
  • Scientific Core Conditioning 
  • Biomotor Integration
  • Energy System Development  
  • Functional Strength & Power 
  • Flexibility – dynamic and corrective 
  • Starting Speed in all Directions
  • Explosive Training & Plyometrics
  • Medicine Ball Training
  • Swiss Ball Training
  • Tornado Ball Training
  • Regeneration and Recovery
   
Antonio Valladares

Antonio Valladares is president of BURN SPORTS™, a New York City-based Performance Coaching and Consulting company that offers high performance strength and conditioning programs integrated with holistic health, nutrition and recovery for improved athletic performance and reduced risk of injury.

Unlike most sports and fitness programs, the Burn Sports method integrates prehab/rehab, flexibility, agility, coordination, speed, quickness, strength, power, endurance, energy system development and movement skills training in every program to develop the complete athlete.  This method safely and effectively addresses the needs of any athlete in any sport.

A certified fitness professional since 1994, Antonio has worked in New York City as a sports performance and corrective exercise specialist as well as a personal trainer and licensed sports massage therapist.  His unique method of functional strength and conditioning has delivered extraordinary results for all types of athletes in all sports including: triathlon, mountain biking, baseball, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball and mixed martial arts.

Antonio also consults with physicians and sports medicine clinics, including the New York Institute for Brain and Spinal Surgery, working with patients who suffer from musculoskeletal and neural disorders.

A pioneer in the fitness industry, in 2001, he created Burn Med Ball Conditioning which brought medicine ball conditioning to the forefront of New York City’s fitness industry.  Rated ‘best workout of 1999’, Antonio’s Mountain Bike Adventures was the first action sports class of its kind in New York City.

Growing up in Miami, Antonio quickly developed an appreciation for health and outdoor sports.  He started martial arts training at age five and has been scuba diving, surfing, snowboarding and mountain biking all over the world.  As a youth, he played most winter and water sports, high school football, BMX, moto-cross and was even a champion barrel racer.  After attending part of his high school in Israel and Riverside Military Academy, Antonio attended Ohio State University where he studied exercise science.  He left Ohio State to pursue a career in music.  Antonio has been involved in some of the best known New York Hardcore Punk Rock groups including 108, Shelter and the Cro-Mags.  It is during these years touring with straight-edge bands that took a hard stance against drugs and alcohol, that Antonio refined his practice of Yoga and Jiu Jitsu.  Antonio has traveled throughout India several times to study and practice yoga and the martial arts. 

His aggressive approach to education, passion for life and appreciation of Eastern philosophy has helped him forge a unique identity in the health and sports industry. 

Using his experience of sports along with years of professional education, Antonio continues to bring a truly unique and holistic approach to human health and performance conditioning.  Integrated nutrition, training, conditioning and recovery for each individual athlete is the secret to success of Burn Sports Strength and Conditioning.

Throughout his career, Antonio has pursued specialized education from world leaders in athletic conditioning and rehabilitation, holistic health and nutrition, including:

Corrective High Performance Exercise Kinesiologist

  • CHEK Institute (2004)

Certified Personal Trainer

  • National Academy of Sports Medicine (2003)
  • American College of Sports Medicine (1996)
  • American Council on Exercise (1994)

Rehabilitation Conditioning Specialist

  • American Academy of Health and Fitness Professionals (1996)

Licensed Massage Therapist (NY State)

  • Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences (1996)

Workshops

  • Combat Sports Training and Nutrition 
  • Action Sports Training and Nutrition
  • Training and Nutrition for Female Athletes
  • ACL Prevention and Rehabilitation
  • Strength and Conditioning for Teens
  • Youth Fitness and Nutrition
  • Preventing Childhood Obesity: What Expecting Parents Need to Know
  • Personal Trainers Workshop
  • Fitness Fact and Fantasy
  • Secrets to Female Fat Loss
  • Swiss Ball Training for Athletes
  • Holistic Health and Nutrition for Athletes & Parents

Contact:

Antonio Valladares
212.598.0473
151 First Ave # 80
New York, New York 10009
info@burnsports.com

 

  
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