2025 Strength, Speed and Power Camp

The RIT Speed, Strength and Power Camp offers summer strength and conditioning opportunities for high school athletes. This is a comprehensive program designed to meet individual strength and conditioning needs for both men and women.  The program provides and develops athletes with a fundamental foundation that will allow them to reach their full potential.  The program is run by RIT's Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Ryan Kelly.

Open to all individuals entering 9^th through grade 12^th grade, RIT’s SSP Camp is an 8 week training program designed to help prepare athletes for their upcoming competitive season.

All training sessions will be conducted by an experienced and certified strength and conditioning professionals, allowing athletes to get the coaching and feedback necessary to take their game to the next level. 

Programs are designed following the same core principles utilized by RIT’s Strength and Conditioning department:

1. Injury Prevention – training to prepare for the rigors of sport and minimize the number of non-contact injuries
2. Evidence Based Practice – training programs will be rationalized through current scientific research and best applied practices
3. Coaching – building trusting relationships while encouraging competitiveness
4. Education – providing student-athletes with a progressive learning experience designed to increase awareness and enhance well-being
5. Adaptability – continued evaluation and improvement of training practices to remain on the forefront of sports performance programming

Training Schedule:

Training programs include a 3 day per week training schedule, with sessions held on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.  Training sessions begin at 8am, 9:30am and 11am with sessions lasting 60 minutes each. Training programs begin Monday June 23^rd and conclude Thursday August 15^th.

*RIT Employee children eligible for 25% discount.  Discount will be refunded after registration.

**For teams or groups larger than 10 athletes, please contact Coach Kelly directly: rmkatl@rit.edu

Services include:

Training sessions will be held in a small group format.  They will include dynamic warm-up, speed/agility, power development, resistance training and mobility.  All sessions will be instructed and supervised by a certified strength and conditioning professional.

Staff:

Ryan Kelly has worked as a strength and conditioning professional since 2015.  He is currently in his sixth year as Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at RIT, coordinating efforts for all 24 of the department’s intercollegiate athletic teams.  Kelly has a wide range of training experience from youth athletes in the private sector, Division I ice hockey, as well as professional and Olympic level competitors at the United States Olympic Training Center.

Performance enhancement comes from an athlete’s ability to remain healthy and their continued participation in their sport.  Training programs target injury reduction through balanced training, enhancing movement quality and strength/power development.  Movement selection is functional, ground-based, multi-joint and multi-planar.  Programs include but are not limited to strength, power, speed, mobility and recovery.

Kelly is a National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and is certified as a USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach.