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I am having trouble walking down the stairs today. Why? Well, I completed my first Nike SPARQ training session (and as a reminder, SPARQ = speed, power, agility, reaction, quickness). Let's just say it was a little more difficult than I thought it would be! 

Athletes can now Nike SPARQ Train at more than 65 Velocity Sports Performance Centers across the United States. Each location will feature the latest in dynamic training equipment and Velocity Sports Performance Center trainers will be officially certified as SPARQ trainers.

Crouching and bouncing a bright green 3-pound medicine ball against the cinderblock wall in front me will, I'm told, help me run faster. So will skipping backward, doing side lunges, gliding back and forth on a slide board and pumping my arms like a boxer. 

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. 

Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Michigan QB Chad Henne performs at the 2008 combine featuring an impressive effort in the passing drills. 

Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Michigan QB Chad Henne stops by to chat with Scott Hanson about his NFL combine experience. 

Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Notre Dame DT Trevor Laws demonstrates his strength and agility at the 2008 combine. 

Velocity Sports Performance athlete and Notre Dame DT Trevor Laws discusses his performance at the 2008 combine. 

Before Ryan Sweeney reported to spring training this month with the Oakland Athletics, he spent the winter in his hometown training and conditioning with a rigorous workout regimen.

TIMES HAVE SURE changed from when I was a kid so many years ago. That's what I'm thinking as I veer from a Redmond arterial one weekday afternoon and turn into a mall of warehouses inhabited by companies that teach kids dancing, martial arts and gymnastics. 

Mike Hart has been hearing all season long from the talking heads on national television how he is too small to be productive at the NFL level. 

The University’s Integrated Health Center in the School of Public Health is forging new roads with Velocity Sports Performance to promote life-long health, wellness and optimal athletic performance. 

Some high schoolers are turning to personal trainers in hopes of landing scholarships.

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. 

Walk into Velocity Sports Performance as a grown adult and you may think how much the world has changed since you were a kid. 

Almost immediately after winning the Heisman Trophy, Tim Tebow, holding firm on the hardware on a New York stage and the sporting world watching his every move, was handed a cell phone.   It wasn't his mother on the other line, or any of his hometown buddies. It was Carl Moore. 

K.C. Patterson is a young man in perpetual motion. One school to the next.   But Patterson has a new home now – at Division I-A Akron in the heart of Ohio – and the quarterback grins at the notion of finally unpacking for more than a few months. Patterson is a vagabond athlete if the area ever has seen one, having experienced every bit of the business of football while getting a nifty tour of the country. 

Emory Welch is one of those people. Born and raised in Lakeland, he graduated from Lakeland High School in 1979 and then attended Florida Southern College for a year before transferring to the University of South Florida in Tampa.

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.  

Torrance resident's return to competitive soccer is a remarkable story. She's playing for New Zealand at the Women's World Cup this month. 

In the age of Tiger Woods and Venus and Serena Williams becoming a professional athlete means training younger and harder than your peers. Many young athletes are turning to the pros to get a competitive edge in their sport. 

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.   

It might not be surprising to learn that Ravens linebacker Bart Scott was on a football field this week working on 40-yard dashes, shuttle drills, strength training and acceleration techniques. What is surprising is who was working out with him. 

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.

These are exciting times for 12-year-old Kendall Gustafson, who won a gold medal in the pentathlon at the USA Youth Outdoor Track & Field Championships July 4-8 in Lisle, Illinois.   Gustafson will be a seventh-grader at Paul Revere Middle School in the fall, yet already she has begun to make a name for herself in an event that incorporates skills from a variety of sports. 

Potential NBA draft pick DeVon Hardin is expected to announce today that he's signed with an agent and won't return to Cal for his senior season, a source close to the family said. Hardin declared eligibility for the draft in April but didn't sign with an agent, leaving open the option of returning to school. He has until Monday to withdraw his name from draft consideration. 

Why Velocity Sports Performance? Because we can help make you faster, stronger, and more explosive. At our state-of-the-art centers, you'll train like a pro with our professional, certified coaches. We train more athletes nationwide than anyone else, and we offer our proven programs for everyone, regardless of age, gender, skill level or athletic or fitness goals.  Take advantage of performance programs the pros use and Get Velocity Trained today!