A development-first performance gym for middle-school, high-school, and college-bound athletes. Strength. Speed. Plyometrics. Sport skill. Assessed, programmed, logged.
9th–12th grade athletes training for varsity minutes, state, and recruitment tape.
See your path →Middle-school and travel-ball athletes building the engine their skill coach can't program.
See your path →Seniors chasing scholarships, combine prep, and adult athletes who train like they mean it.
See your path →Every performance gym in Central Illinois trains baseball. The Lab trains athletes. If your kid plays hoops, runs lanes, sets a net, or picks up a stick in the spring — they need a program built around them, not one sport.
Every athlete here starts with a movement screen and a baseline number — 40-yard, vertical, broad jump, overhead squat. Every six weeks we re-test. You see the number. Your kid sees the number. Nobody argues about whether the work is working.
No medals for showing up. A program, a coach, a standard — and a printed report card every phase. The rest is on the athlete.
Every athlete starts with a movement screen. We program around what the screen shows, not around what's fashionable. ACLs, elbows, jumper's knees — we get ahead of them.
Baseline on day one. Re-test every six weeks. Printed report card shows delta on 40-yd, vert, broad jump, squat, and movement quality. No guessing whether the work is working.
Group sessions at set times. Private work scheduled around your kid's actual life — practice, school, travel. Freeze in-season, no penalty.
Month-to-month. Cancel any time. We'd rather your kid stay because the numbers are moving than because you signed a form.
The base — strength, speed, plyometrics — is universal. The finish — sport skill, energy system, injury focus — is specific to each sport. Every performance gym in Central Illinois trains baseball. We train athletes.
Velocity, arm-care, rotational power — built around the season, not against it.
In-season ballplayers keep training with their primary skill coach. We handle the off-season engine — and the four other sports your kid plays.
Vertical, lateral quickness, and the knees that survive 80 games a year.
The injury parents fear most in basketball is the ACL. We own that conversation.
Combine numbers, posterior chain, contact readiness.
Off-season is where rosters are decided. We build the engine that shows up in August.
Jump, land, and do it 200 more times without a shoulder or knee surrendering.
Jumper's knee and rotator-cuff flags don't happen by accident. We get ahead of them.
Top-end speed, change-of-direction, and hips that hold up all season.
Central Illinois' quietly growing sport. First gym in B-N built to train for it properly.
Talk to us. If we can develop the athlete, we can program the sport.
Contact →* Typical-delta figures are benchmarks for committed athletes on a 12-month program. Individual results depend on training age, compliance, and starting line.
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Every athlete gets a printed one every six weeks. This is what one looks like.
Every athlete who walked out of this gym and into a college program.
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Group sessions run at set times. Everything else is built around when you can be here — not when we tell you to show up.
Every plan is built around goals, schedule, and commitment. Book a consult and we'll price accordingly.
Semi-private, coached by name. Up to 6 athletes. Strength, speed, plyometrics — programmed and logged.
Direct work with your coach. Individualized program, film review, sport-specific skill. Priced per athlete based on goals, frequency, and phase commitment.
School teams, travel organizations, off-season camps. Posted on the calendar as each season opens.
No long-term contracts. Freeze your membership in-season. We'd rather you stay because it's working than because you signed a form.
Yes. Multi-sport athletes are the reason The Lab exists. We build a base that serves both — plyometrics and approach jump for volleyball, top-end speed for track — and pull back or push forward based on which sport is in-season.
No, and we'll never ask you to choose. K's owns baseball skill work in Bloomington and they're great at it. We handle off-season performance and the other sports your kid plays. In-season baseball-only athletes stay at K's; we pick up the engine work.
We train athletes roughly 10 through college. Middle school is where the movement foundation is built; high school is where the engine gets programmed; college-prep athletes are coached toward combine numbers and sport-specific benchmarks.
Yes. Every athlete starts with a free 30-minute movement screen and goal conversation. Nobody's turned away for being "not athletic enough" — but we program from what we see that day.
If they've been cleared to train by their physician or athletic trainer, yes — and we'll coordinate with that provider on load and progression. If they haven't been cleared, we'll wait with you until they are. We don't train through injury.
Carefully. Under NCAA Bylaw 16, we can't offer free or discounted training, comp'd sessions, or athlete-specific packages — that's an extra-benefit issue and could jeopardize eligibility. They can purchase the same publicly posted services any community member can. Most current NCAA athletes should work with their program's S&C staff first and reach out for full-pay private work in their true off-season.
Yes and yes. No long-term contracts. Freeze your membership for any in-season stretch, no penalty. Unused private sessions roll 60 days. Full policy in writing at signup.
Thirty minutes with your coach. Movement screen, a few numbers, and a straight answer on whether The Lab is the right fit for your athlete. No pitch. No annual-contract close. Just a conversation.