Calgary’s Full-Stack Athlete Training Program

Taking Calgary
Athletes From
Good to Great

Our mission is to provide the best possible training programs delivered by the most qualified Strength and Conditioning coaches in a facility purpose-built to drive athletic success.

Our Coaches Have Trained Athletes at the Highest Levels of Sport

about us

About Speed School

As Performance Coaches, we know first hand how impactful proper training can be for a developing athlete. It can make a below average player into a great player. We also know how damaging poor programming and bad coaching can be. It can cut an athlete’s feet out from under them and halt their rise to the top.

Unfortunately, that is an all too common reality for many athletes across the country. The best way to help an athlete is to have high quality coaches equipped with the knowledge to actually make a difference. This is why Speed School exists. There is a desperate need for Athlete Development Companies that focus on developing industry leading coaches who can deliver high-quality performance programs so athletes can excel in their sport and stay injury free.

Speed School was created to fill this void.

LTAD Framework

Every athlete is unique. An athlete’s age, physical maturity, training experience, sport and injury history will dictate what training program is most appropriate to achieve their goals. Our programs focus on making each athlete faster, stronger and more resilient to injury, and that means we need a system to deliver consistent and amazing results.

The Speed School Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) Framework allows us to accelerate athlete results in the safest and most time effective fashion possible.

This system helps us optimize training at specific stages of athletic development based on an athlete’s cognitive and physical development.

With our system, we do not focus on sport specific skills, instead, we employ a training model that focuses on improving general physical capacities that all athletes will need:

We also give special attention to developing a wide-range of movement patterns and coordinative skills like jumping, landing and throwing. This framework helps us achieve our singular goal of creating better and more resilient athletes, who can go on to excel in their chosen sport.

Our Athletes & Organizations

Peyton Krebs

NHL Buffalo Sabres, 17th overall 2019 NHL Draft

Hakeem Dawodu

UFC Featherweight

Mike Edem

CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders

Our Coaches

Nick Gies, MProf, CSCS

Co-Founder & Director of Athlete Performance

With over 12 years working with hundreds of athletes ranging from 6 years old to the professional ranks, Coach Nick brings a wealth of experience to the athletes of Speed School.

Nicks passion lies in developing young athletes, as most of the attention and resources get given to professional or elite athletes.

He also has a keen interest in Injury Rehabilitation and bridging the gap between the physio table and return-to-performance, driven by his own experiences with career impacting injuries. His primary responsibilities involve developing Speed Schools programming systems, developing our performance coaches, running our internship program, and working with our rehabbing athletes.

Matt Howatt, BHPE, CSCS

Co-Founder & Head of Strength and Conditioning

As Head of S&C, he is in the trenches working with the majority of our athletes while also helping to develop our interns and coaches in a hands-on teaching environment.

This fostered his love for high-performance, leading him to obtain a Bachelor of Health and Physical Education. He has also developed a passion for youth athlete development, as he experienced first hand the impact strength training had on his athletic career. With his sporting background, Matt has a strong interest in hockey performance and runs both our on-ice and dryland training programs for individual athletes and entire teams. As an athlete, Coach Matt won Provincial Gold and 4 straight league Championships playing hockey for the Okotoks Bisons.

Our Facility

“It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way”

- Wallace D. Wattles

When most coaches and athletes are focused on getting the lastest and greatest piece of kit, we are focused on using the proper equipment in the most effective way possible. We only implement equipment that we know will give our athletes a competitive edge. We invest in pieces of equipment or technology when we are confident that it will give our athletes better results.

Some of the equipment we have that gives you that edge includes:

Our Pricing

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In-Season Program

$50+gst

Book up to 4 semi-private training sessions (per 4 week block)
On-Going Performance Testing
Training App Access
Your own personal strength coach (Priceless)
Custom sport-specific Programming
Unlimited program revisions
Unlimited access to recovery modalities
Access to our network of medical providers

Note – You must be actively in-season to qualify for the in-season program.

Unlimited Program

Popular

$87.50+gst

Unlimited semi-private training sessions
On-Going Performance Testing
Training App Access
Your own personal strength coach (Priceless)
Custom sport-specific Programming
Unlimited program revisions
Unlimited access to recovery modalities
Access to our network of medical providers

Elevate program

$175+gst

Weekly 1:1 coaching session
Unlimited semi-private training sessions
On-Going Performance Testing
Training App Access
Your own personal strength coach (Priceless)
Custom sport-specific Programming
Unlimited program revisions
Unlimited access to recovery modalities
Access to our network of medical providers

Taking Calgary
Athletes From
Good to Great

Our Coaches Have Trained Athletes at the Highest Levels of Sport

About Speed School

LTAD Framework

The Speed School Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) Framework allows us to accelerate athlete results in the safest and most time effective fashion possible.