The 5 Pillars of Performance Program

Nutritional Supplements: Let us help you give your body what it needs to create maximum energy all the way down to the cellular level. To meet your goals of being bigger, stronger, and faster, while putting the power down longer and recovering quicker, our flexible supplement programs can help give you the edge you need to crush the competition.

Quality

You get what you pay for, especially with supplements. There are many brands on the market, but an incredible number of them are of questionable quality, and many of which are honestly just plain garbage. To give you an idea of what we mean, we’ve even seen sawdust in supplement capsules! On the other hand we offer the finest professional quality supplement lines only offered by healthcare providers. Having worked extensively with these companies’ products throughout his 20-year career- and personally used for much longer, Dr. Daccardi is thoroughly confident in their quality and potency.

NSF Certified for Sport®:

As an additional benefit for athletes that want or require it, we also provide supplement options that have undergone strict third-party “NSF Certified for Sport®” certification recognized by the MLB and the MLB Players Association, the NFL, and the PGA. According to their website, “NSF is the only independent, third-party testing organization certification that offers true testing of dietary supplements.” Certified products are verified to be free of the 280 banned substances tested for by most major athletic organizations, while also verifying that each and every batch of that supplement contains ingredients stated on the label. Learn more about NSF Certification.

Biohacking tools are becoming very popular for a good reason, and that’s because they work. When we stack our biohacking tools with our professional-grade supplements and the other Pillars of Performance, the combined effect can improve performance to mind-blowing levels.

PEMF & Red Light

Many studies indicate that Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) mats and Red Light Therapy can help stimulate ATP production which acts as fuel for the cells, while also improving blood flow, and oxygenation, while decreasing soreness, inflammation and pain.

Exercise With Oxygen Training (EWOT)

EWOT is another tool we use that allows athletes to obtain the benefits of exercising while breathing a high concentration of oxygen (about 94%) which is more than 4 times that of normal room air. By saturating the blood with oxygen, the brain and all other tissues and systems of the body work better because oxygen is in itself a major component of ATP (energy) production inside every cell.

Let’s go back to example of your shoulder. Every time you move your shoulder or lift something there are muscles that make the main movement (called prime movers) and they get all the attention. If your body was a baseball team, they would be the star pitcher. But these muscles are only half of the equation.

There are also muscles which do the difficult, often invisible work of keeping the joints stable (called stabilizers), so that the prime movers have something to pull against. Think of these muscles like you would a catcher; the strong, stable unsung heroes of the team. And it’s the combination of pitcher and catcher working together that can give your team strength. Neither one alone can get the job done, and how well they do their job depends on how well they communicate with one another.

Here’s a key takeaway: Even strong muscles must be told what to do in a loud and clear way by the brain for it to work optimally and give you maximum power. If you can’t contract core (and other) stabilizing muscles with maximum force, and in perfect coordination with each other, you don’t have true stability. In fact you’re missing out on a gigantic part of what you work so hard to build.

And here’s a secret: Everyone – even up to gold medal winning olympians – do not have the true stability and power that is available to them right now, because like you they haven’t yet properly trained to restore activation and control controls. How do we know this? Because until now nobody knew how.

Neuro-Recalibration Training (NRT), developed over the last 15 years by Dr. Jac Daccardi is the only program of it’s kind. We use this method to restore the key control mechanisms crucial to achieving maximum core stability. Once restored, not only can core stability improve very rapidly, but because of this new level of stability, NRT becomes a force multiplier or amplifier for strength training of any kind.

In other words even your current strength training program can be significantly more effective when coupled with NRT. In short, NRT is a method that helps remove conflicting information (what we just call “noise”) from the streams of information your brain controls your body with. Once this noise is removed, your brain can communicate with your body with a loud and clear signal so that your muscles can give you maximum explosiveness, endurance, and give you much greater stability.

To be clear, we are NOT talking about sports psychology or using “mind-body techniques” that help you visualize your way to better performance. That may have it’s place, but it’s not what we do. Nor is what we do some kind of woo-woo. It’s based in clinical neuroscience. It’s a bit complex, but if you are interested in reading more about how NRT works, keep reading. First, here’s an example to make it more understandable:

• Imagine yourself trying to tell your friend a complicated set of directions across a noisy, crowded room. It’s difficult. While some of the information does get through, other pieces of it are misunderstood or totally lost in the noise. This is basically what is happening in your brain-body communication networks. These networks can become clogged with conflicting information or “noise” due to the persistent neurological effects of a lifetime of even relatively minor injuries and traumas, surgeries, dental work, and even piercings and tattoos. Yes, even tattoos.
• Now imagine that suddenly everyone in the crowded room went perfectly silent, and you were able to share those directions with your friend loudly and clearly. This is what Neuro-Recalibration Training does: first, it silences the noise from the system, then once the brain and body are able to communicate with one another more effectively, we then train to strengthen the signals critical to your performance.

Because critical brain-body communications are being clogged up with conflicting information, performance can suffer greatly. Where does all this conflicting information come from? As mentioned above, it results from the persistent neurological effects of physical traumas such as injuries, surgeries, dental work, piercings and tattoos, etc. that you have experienced throughout your life.

So what do I mean by “persistent neurological effects”?

When physically traumatic events are significant enough, the signals that your body sends to your brain to tell it what is happening can continue on at a low level long after the healing has taken place. Often for a lifetime! Those signals, such as pain, may have been valuable at the time of an injury, but after the injury heals, that signal is no longer necessary. Yet there remains a residual signal sending the same message over and over about the trauma. And they can continue on at a very low level without you being aware of it. Indefinitely.

Now multiply this situation by the number of times in your life where you’ve hit your head, sprained your ankle, whacked your elbow really hard, had your wisdom teeth pulled, dislocated a shoulder or broken a bone, and yes…even having gotten a tattoo. The point is, there can be a LOT of noise in the system, and whether you know it or not, it’s a very big deal.

As a result, critical information gets confused or lost in the noise, just like a conversation in a crowded, noisy room. This can sap performance from every aspect of your game, or make it more difficult to perform at your best without you knowing it. Whether it is learning or refining a new skill, maximizing explosiveness, increasing stability, improving hand-eye coordination, balance, or decision-making, once the noise is removed, your performance in all these areas can increase. Often, dramatically

Neuroplasticity is a concept that is finally starting to get traction in the world of sports and athletic performance training. You should get familiar with it, because it’s coming like a freight train, and there’s no stopping its takeover of the training landscape. To even be competitive in the very near future, athletes are going to need various forms of neuro-performance training.

Dr. Daccardi started using this concept in his training and treatment of professional athletes 15 years ago, with astounding results. Now, everyone is just starting to wake up to the power of it but, you are still on the cutting edge of it, which gives you a HUGE advantage. NRT leverages the power of Neuroplasticity. In a nutshell the principle simply says that the more you do something, the better you become at it. Your brain and nervous system adapt to what it encounters and it is the main reason why we improve when we practice. This is Neuroplasticity working in your favor, and this is a very good thing!

However, neuroplasticity can also work against you. When you have a physical trauma (again, even relatively minor ones such as a tattoo) nervous system signals which began at the time of the traumatic event can “get stuck” and continue to ripple throughout the system long after the event has ended. In short, injuries frequently become extremely efficient noisemakers that overload your system. More or less permanently.

NRT is the only approach which first removes that noise, then re-trains the communication systems to increase the correct information. The best part is that NRT works in tandem with other kinds of training you are already doing, and has NO DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS ON YOUR SKILLS. Working this way, the nervous system becomes far more efficient and effective at communicating with itself and with other systems of the body, and you can reach performance levels that were previously out of your grasp.

Proteus is an incredibly powerful cutting-edge performance training machine that not only measures strength and power for every human movement, but it is also the only training machine on the market that functions as an adaptive 3D resistance training tool.

In testing mode, Proteus can evaluate many different measures of performance, provide rankings of where you stand among athletes in your age range and sport, and provide a step-by-step Proteus-based training program. It’s truly incredible. When in training mode with Proteus, it mirrors your movements in all three dimensions to provide a constant amount of resistance through an entire range of motion. Something weights, cable machines, and resistance bands simply cannot do. It can also help prevent injuries during training because it stops when you stop. We also can use the proteus to train for explosiveness of movement as well as balance and coordination.

Even if we just offered the combination of Proteus and Neuro-Recalibration Training, it could create an unprecedented state-of-the art performance transformation found nowhere else. It’s that powerful. But that said, this is just ONE of our five pillars. Learn more about the Proteus Motion 3D System.

Balance is a result of the coordination of information between several systems. Without the full and correct information from these systems you would have no idea whether you were standing up, sitting or dangling upside down. Obviously, if you’re an athlete, that’s not the case with you, or you wouldn’t be able to play. BUT…

Because these systems overlap one another, if one system isn’t performing as well as the others, issues with balance can be hidden to a certain degree. Like a teammate that can’t pull his own weight, the others around him may have to pick up the slack to win the game. The crowd may not notice but everyone on the team sure does. So like that teammate, balance and coordination issues can be a partially hidden drain on performance.

Interested in learning more? Here are some of the details:

There are three main systems that work together to help you balance:

• The vestibular system (inner ear) which is extremely sensitive to head movements and position,
• The visual system whose reflexes play a huge part in orienting yourself in space by providing positional feedback and,
• Position receptors located all throughout the body, known as proprioceptors.

So our first question is, are these systems all working together like they should? So we do testing to answer that. For example, we can see if the visual system is covering up poor performance in the other two systems by having you close your eyes. If you close your eyes, the visual system can’t help you balance and if you begin to sway or fall it tells us that one or both of the other systems are not performing like they should. Likewise we also test the other systems which will give us information on how well your systems of balance are working together, and how to help you improve it.

Our training activities represent another aspect of NRT which will help you level up by strengthening the the skills you already have, and by building new ones using the newest approaches developed in the field sports performance neuroscience. When you let us help you get two steps ahead of your competition by joining the 5 Pillars of Performance program, the scale of the difference it can make in your internal brain-body communication and control is like the difference between whispering in a stadium full of people vs. yelling in a small quiet room. The difference is Loud and Clear.

Given the example in the previous section, can you can imagine how this could decrease your batting average? Can you imagine how at a critical point in a game you could easily misjudge where your glove is and miss a line drive? Or throw a wild pitch? Or miss the cutoff man? Or miss the tag? It happens all the time, particularly if you don’t know exactly where you are in space.

What’s even more interesting is that if you don’t exactly know where every part of your body is, you also don’t exactly know where your bat or glove is. And you certainly won’t know exactly where a ball moving at you at high speed is. So in fact, you wouldn’t know exactly where anything around you is! The good news is virtually everyone has this issue, and when it’s resolved by doing the Five Pillars of Performance program, it’s another MASSIVE advantage you have over your competition

In order for you to have an clear picture of where you (and everything else) are in space, like the other Pillars, the noise interfering in brain-body communications need to be removed first. Because this was already done using Neuro-Recalibration Training in other Pillars, we don’t have to repeat that process. However, at this point we begin to utilize yet another phase of NRT to “recalibrate” the positional (proprioceptive) systems involved in this pillar.

We do this by using our proprietary audio/visual technologies along with other sensory stimuli, in combination with head, eye, hand, and foot movements and positions. This process of recalibration or re- alignment restores the proper signals in the web of neurological communication and restores accurate positional information for each part of the body. Dramatic results can appear immediately, yet like every other kind of training, your body becomes more efficient when it is performed regularly.