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We'd like to invite you to take part in our first ever Minnesota Timberwolves Mini Dribblers Basketball Clinic. Clinic includes a T-shirt and Timberwolves Ticket. Limited spots are available so sign up now!

If you’re looking for a great way to refine your baseball or softball skills in time for the upcoming season sign up for our Baseball and Softball Performance Training and get started now!

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. 

Velocity Sports Performance, specializing in advanced sports performance training for athletes of all ages and skill levels, today announced the grand opening of its newest location in partnership with M1 Volleyball in Bloomington, MN.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

 

At Velocity, we love it when our athletes tell us that they’ve started their season in the best shape of their lives, and athletes who train consistently and intensely with us during their off-season typically do. 

Velocity wants to help your athlete become as TALL as possible! In 2003, President Bush commissioned a team of exercise physiologists to look into, among other things, the question of whether weightlifting would stunt the growth of 5-14 year-old athletes.  They found that this myth seemed to originate from an early twentieth century report which suggested that children who performed heavy labor experienced damage to their growth plates and arrested development.  However, this study did not control for other factors such as poor nutrition, which was likely responsible for such findings.  Contrarily, they found that all current studies show that controlled, supervised resistance training does NOT inhibit growth.  In fact, they found that participation in regular resistance training will actually have a positive affect on bone growth by enhancing osteo-remodeling!       We also want to help your athlete become as LEAN as possible!   The same Presidential Counsel found that youth athletes who lift weights also lose body fat.  In a time where America is losing the battle against childhood obesity, this is excellent news for Velocity’s young athletes.  Like adults, adolescents who build lean muscle mass through weightlifting will enjoy the benefits of a faster metabolism, helping them to burn fat.       Velocity loves a CONFIDENT athlete!   Numerous studies show that participation in a youth strength training program can lead to an increase in confidence.  Similar to participation in team sports, the socialization and mental discipline that Velocity’s strength program demands will likely have a positive impact on your athlete’s confidence.  This is important because a confident athlete is less likely to drop out of sports due to failure, embarrassment or injury.       Velocity wants our athletes playing, not sitting!   An injured athlete is a useless athlete.  By enhancing musculoskeletal strength and developing muscle balance around joints, resistance training may decrease the incidence of injury in young athletes. Velocity’s strength program allows our trained coaches to see and correct muscle imbalances that may lead to sport injuries.       Oh yeah…   Lifting weights and getting stronger is also a lot of fun.  We don’t want to forget that one.  

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.  

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.   

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.