PERFORMANCE TRAINING & TESTING · AGES 11+ · FALLBROOK
The Athlete Lab
Young athletes today have more information than ever — video, data, feedback from every direction — and less help making it personally meaningful. We close that gap: private soccer training and performance testing built around what your athlete can actually do, and where they're trying to get to next. Full soccer programs; strength and Kineo testing for athletes in any sport.
WHAT WE MEASURE
Four dimensions of performance.
Each dimension tells part of the story. Together, they tell all of it.
01
Physical
How the body moves. GPS movement tracking, force plate testing, isometric strength assessment — continuous across the season, not just on testing days. The same equipment categories used by Premier League clubs, U.S. Soccer national teams, and NCAA D1 programs.
02
Technical
How the skill executes. Position-specific assessment and game video analysis — mapping strengths against the actual demands of the position, and finding where execution breaks down: under fatigue, under pressure, in transition.
03
Cognitive
How the mind decides. Decision-making is where most performance gaps actually live — what you saw, what you could do, what you let yourself do. Three gaps, three approaches.
04
Meaning
What the work is for. Coherence (it makes sense), purpose (it is going somewhere), significance (it matters) — built the same way the physical work is built: measured, discussed, tracked over time.
WHERE PERFORMANCE ACTUALLY BREAKS DOWN
What you saw. What you could do. What you let yourself do.
"I didn't see it."
PERCEPTION
The opportunity was there, but the athlete didn't process it in time. Perception lagged behind the play.
"I couldn't do it."
EXECUTION
They saw it, knew what to do, but couldn't deliver under pressure. The skill broke down when it mattered.
"I hesitated."
CONFIDENCE
They saw it, could do it — but something made them pause. Doubt crept in. The moment passed.
IN HER OWN WORDS · AGAINST THE NUMBERS
The game, read twice.
01 · MATCH REFLECTION × GPS
REFLECTION · JUN 08 · SAMPLE GAP: PERCEPTION
“They pressed higher than we prepped for. I kept receiving on my back foot — I didn’t see the switch coming early enough.”
REFLECTION · JUN 20 · SAMPLE GAP: EXECUTION
“I saw the runs all game. Twice the final pass came off my weak side late — the legs were there, the touch wasn’t.”
REFLECTION · JUN 23 · SAMPLE GAP: CONFIDENCE
“Third game in five days. After the first tackle I stopped taking players on — I chose safe every time.”
GPS · SPRINT DISTANCE / 9 GAMES
128.1
DIST / MIN (M)
48.9
SPRINT DIST (M)
26.9
MAX SPEED (KM/H)
119.8
DIST / MIN (M)
54.5
SPRINT DIST (M)
29.5
MAX SPEED (KM/H)
110.3
DIST / MIN (M)
34.5
SPRINT DIST (M)
27.5
MAX SPEED (KM/H)
Two realities. Same dates.
02 · LAB REFLECTION × KINEO
REFLECTION · JUN 23 · SAMPLE
“Right leg is still guarding on landings. I can do it, but I don’t trust it yet.”
REFLECTION · JUL 11 · SAMPLE
“First week the knee felt like mine again. Still thinking about it on the first step.”
REFLECTION · AUG 10 · SAMPLE
“I stopped counting reps and started playing. The hesitation is gone before the pass, not after.”
KINEO · LEG EXT ASYMMETRY
35.9%
6.0%
1.9%
— CON— ECCDASHED = BAND / TARGET
THE METHOD · 90 SECONDS
One athlete. Six months. Four records.
A calendar cleared her. Nothing measured her. This is what return-to-performance looks like when every step is earned by evidence — symmetry tracked test by test, strength and GPS data on one timeline, and the athlete's own words beside the numbers.
A loop, not a ladder: measure the leg, measure the cost, train the mind, test it in the world.
More films →THE PREMISE
Two worlds. One athlete.
There is the measured world — sprint distance, impulse, asymmetry, force. Numbers that do not argue. And there is the lived one — what the session actually felt like, what they were thinking on the third game in five days.
Most programs work one and treat the other as noise. Neither is the truth on its own.
The work happens in the gap between them. When the plate says recovered and the athlete says I still do not trust it, that gap is the most useful information anyone has about what to do next. It is what we test for, and what the next block gets built around.
THE MEASURED
What the instruments see
Kineo, force plates, GPS, timing gates. Precise, comparable, and completely silent on what any of it meant.
THE LIVED
What the athlete carries
Hesitation, confidence, what felt heavy and why. Real, decisive, and invisible to every instrument in the room.
THE GAP
Where the work is
Agreement confirms progress. Disagreement is the signal — and it is the thing almost no one is looking at.
ISOMETRIC NET IMPULSE · LAST 8 TESTS
311.1
APR 10+28% ACROSS THE BLOCKAUG 16
THE ATHLETE BLUEPRINT
Where they are. Where they're going.
Each assessment lives alongside the previous ones — the longitudinal story of development, with the athlete's own words beside the numbers. Not a one-time report: the foundation everything else is built on, refreshed at defined intervals, typically every 4 weeks.
See an example
WHO WE WORK WITH
This work fits a specific kind of athlete.
✓Ages 11 and up
✓Soccer athletes, and athletes from any sport for Kineo testing and training
✓Developmental, pre-elite, and college-track levels
✓In-person sessions, Fallbrook
COMMON QUESTIONS
Is this private soccer training?
Performance Testing is one-to-one. Kineo Strength & Power runs with no more than two athletes an hour, each working their own plan from their own numbers. Soccer Group Training is on the field in groups of up to eight — small enough that every player gets coached rather than supervised, but not private. If you want fully individual work, start with testing.
Do you only work with soccer players?
No. Performance Testing and Kineo Strength & Power — the measurement and the strength, power, speed and agility work built from it — are open to athletes in any sport. Force, asymmetry, and how you land and produce power are not soccer-specific. Soccer is the primary sport for the on-field technical work and game-intelligence side, which is where the coaching experience is deepest.
What services do you offer?
Standalone Testing — one comprehensive assessment covering speed, agility, fitness, technical skills, GPS tracking, video analysis, and decision-making under pressure, with no further commitment. Training — the ongoing program with the same testing built in and repeated about every 4 weeks. Most families start with Standalone Testing, then move into Training once they have the baseline.
How long until we see progress?
The first session produces a baseline. Meaningful trends appear after six to eight weeks of consistent data. Real development builds over months and compounds over years.
How is this different from regular performance training?
Most programs work on what's visible from outside. We measure all of that, plus how athletes process and decide under pressure — and what the work means to them. That's where most gaps actually live, and where most training stops short.
What if my child doesn't know what they want to work on?
That's exactly what the first conversation is for. They don't need clarity before they arrive — they need honesty. The direction emerges from the conversation.
THE SAME METHOD, DIFFERENT SCALE
Not an athlete?
The frame that reads an athlete also reads a coach's season and a club's culture. Both start with a conversation, not a package.
For coaches
Mentorship for the contradictions built into the role — stakeholders whose definitions of success do not agree with each other.
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For organizations
Cultural diagnostics for clubs and academies — surfacing the structural tensions people are absorbing quietly, before results force the conversation.
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WHAT TO EXPECT
Ninety minutes. Then it's yours to keep.
No mystery about how this works. Here is the shape of it, start to finish.
01
The session
Ninety minutes in Fallbrook. Your athlete wears a GPS vest and works through the physical battery, position-specific technical work, and decision-making under pressure. Bring both indoor and outdoor shoes.
02
What you receive
All data from the testing selected, released to the athlete once a month on their own dashboard — the numbers, the trend against the previous cycle, and what we are prioritizing next. It stays theirs.
03
Their words beside it
Every cycle includes a conversation about what they want and what they need — recorded next to their own data. Testing tells us what happened. That conversation tells us why, and what to do about it.
04
The cadence
Most families start with Standalone Testing to establish a baseline, then move into Training with the same testing repeated about every four weeks. Current pricing sits on the booking page.
Sessions are run by Milan Trajlov — FIFA Pro License (ATFA), USSF 'A' License, twenty years in professional and youth soccer.
ONE IDEA
More information isn't the answer. Meaning is.
Everything above is one idea. Your athlete doesn't need more information — they need help making their information personally meaningful: understanding themselves, and the game around them. That work starts with one session — and the first ninety minutes are theirs to keep.