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Top 5 Gift Ideas For Athletes
By Jason Moreno, Velocity Sports PerformanceDecember 18, 2011
Gifts are always difficult to choose, but fear no more, Velocity Sports Performance is partnered with Perform Better Equipment and picked the perfect gifts for the athlete or active person in your life.
KSDK Visits Velocity Sports Performance Combine
By Julie TristanJuly 15, 2011
The Velocity Sports Performance is holding an advanced-level football combine this summer. VSP is an elite training facility located in Chesterfield. High performing football players ages 15-18 will have the chance to train like their favorite players through a series of pro-style drills designed by skilled trainers.
Hydration and Recovery: How Gatorade Scientists Are Addressing The Needs of Athletes
By Gatorade, Gatorade Sports Science InstituteAugust 13, 2010
As an elite performance training facility, Velocity Sports Performance is proud to offer the latest in hydration and recovery science to its athletes. We are grateful to be selected by Gatorade to pioneer these products with our athletes and look forward to sharing your feedback with Gatorade as we move forward.
Player Academy: Preparing for the Season
By Michael Kuebler, USA FootballApril 19, 2010
Offseason preparation provides a key base for youth football players before they begin their 2010 seasons. It's a chance to get in some work for which there is not much time during the regular season. This series has already helped with setting goals, eating right and strength training. Part four now includes drills and tips on speed training for youth players, coaches and parents to add to their offseason work.
Area lifter hopes Worlds are worth the weight
By Gary R. Blockus-The Morning CallOctober 01, 2009
Central Catholic's Majczan overcomes obstacles
By Keith Groller- Morning CallSeptember 15, 2009
Training May Curb Some Sports Injuries In Women
Clipped from NPR.orgSeptember 10, 2008
Women are more prone than their male counterparts to specific injuries — namely knee injuries like tears of the ACL, or anterior cruciate ligament. A prevention program at the University of Cincinnati is aiming to curb these injuries in women.
Justin time: Justin Tuck, defensive end for the reigning super bowl champ New York giants, is a "freak" on the field—and in the gym
By Sam Borden, Men's FitnessSeptember 01, 2008
Justin Tuck, defensive end for the reigning super bowl champ New York giants, discusses his training at the Mahwah, NJ Velocity Sports Performance.
Plaxico Burress helps kick off sports camp for kids
By WVEC.comJune 23, 2008
The Va. Beach native who caught that incredible, game winning Super
Bowl pass, was in Va. Beach Monday to help his mentor, Cadillac Harris,
teach kids on the football field at the Velocity Sports Performance camp.
NFLTA: Preparing for the Combine
By NFL NetworkFebruary 29, 2008
Derrin Horton takes an in-depth look a the intense preparation NFL prospects go through to prepare for the combine. These NFL prospects prepare in Velocity Sports Performance centers throughout the country with over 70 prospects training for the 2008 combine.
NFLTA 2008 Combine: Chad Henne
By NFL NetworkFebruary 25, 2008
Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Michigan QB Chad Henne performs at the 2008 combine featuring an impressive effort in the passing drills.
2008 Combine: Chad Henne Interview
By NFL NetworkFebruary 25, 2008
Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Michigan QB Chad Henne stops by to chat with Scott Hanson about his NFL combine experience.
NFLTA 2008 Combine: Trevor Laws
By NFL NetworkFebruary 25, 2008
Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Notre Dame DT Trevor Laws demonstrates his strength and agility at the 2008 combine.
2008 Combine: Trevor Laws Interview
By NFL NetworkFebruary 25, 2008
Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Notre Dame DT Trevor Laws discusses his performance at the 2008 combine.
The Ultimate Interview: Training & Conditioning
By Ken Vick, C&K MagazineJanuary 31, 2008
For the aspiring NFL player the ultimate job interview is coming
up on February 20, 2008. They will be weighed, measured, tested,
interviewed, filmed and challenged mentally. It’s the annual NFL
Scouting Combine at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis.
Year Round Training
By Victor Hall, Velocity Sports PerformanceOctober 01, 2007
In today’s world of sport participation, the question isn’t should an athlete engage in physical training but instead how much time is appropriate to devote towards improving one’s speed, strength and agility? At Velocity Sports Performance, we believe a year round approach is best when providing athletes with the greatest opportunity for success.
What is a Coach?
By Mike Linn, Velocity Sports PerformanceAugust 09, 2007
As
the popularity of sports performance training continues to explode, it is
important to understand what separates Velocity Sports Performance from other options. Is it our state of the art training
facilities which rival even the biggest college and professional complexes? Or maybe it is our programs which are
scientifically designed to improve speed, power, and agility – the three
pillars of athleticism.
Nutrition for Resistance Training and Sports Performance
By Jason Petrucelli, Sports Performance Coach, Velocity Sports PerformanceAugust 02, 2007
Nutrition for Resistance Training and Sports Performance
Benefits of Olympic Lifts
By Matt Hoover, Sports Performance Coach, Velocity Sports PerformanceAugust 02, 2007
Benefits of Olympic Lifts
Train Like a Pro, Even if You’re 12
By Catherine Saint Louis, New York TimesJuly 19, 2007
Sports performance training is becoming de rigueur for ambitious stars
in the making or unfit youngsters whose parents want to shore up their
confidence. Great athletes aren’t born, they’re made — or so goes a
slogan for Velocity Sports Performance, one of the leading centers that
aim to treat Jack or Kate like Steve Nash or Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
Take 5 with Emmaus senior Mike Bender
By Interview by Nate MinkAugust 08, 2012



