Corporate Background
More than weights and treadmills
Athletic Republic is the culmination of two decades of improving athletic performance. That’s longer than most athletes’ careers. John Frappier, a farm kid, designed the Acceleration Training programs over some twenty years of study.
His first innovative programs were for gymnasts. Traveling with the U.S. team to the U.S.S.R. in 1986, he realized that America’s athletic training lagged behind that of the Soviets. Returning home, he devised new ways to train and new machines upon which to test one’s limits. He designed the Super Treadmill, the patented Hockey Treadmill (Skate on a treadmill? Are you kidding?), resistance cords designed for each skill, and plyometric resistance machines, platforms and blocks.
He’s still not through. Along with Athletic Republic’s Chief Science and Technology Officer, Steve Swanson, the duo has developed the interactive athlete log for My Republic and devised a new force plate that not only records effort, but compares that effort to a huge database of precisely matched results. What you wish you knew about your competitors, well, now you know. And you know how you compare and what kind of Acceleration Training will move you ahead of the competition.