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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. 

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. 

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.   

LET’S TALK FRUIT!               The human body is like an orange.  The orange peel is like our skin, or dermis.  Right under the skin is the pith of the orange.  This is our fascia or connective sheath.  The orange has many little intricate cells filled with juice and nourishment, which are all connected and held together by a web of connective tissue.  In the human body we also have many intricate cells all held together by our fascia.  Fascia is our supportive structure.  If you were to dissect a human body taking away everything but the fascia the human body would still be standing.  Interesting right?  So let’s get rolling!  Just like rolling an orange in preparation for juicing, to get the juices flowing, we should foam roll to open our fascia, making fascia more pliable and our ground substance more liquid. This will give our bodies more opportunity to write itself and heal.

Don’t believe everything you read or hear.  Despite the widely believed myth, resistance training will not cause your child’s growth to be stunted!  Many parents are concerned about the rumored potential damage to bone growth from children participating in resistance training, when in reality, studies have shown that proper weight training can actually strengthen bones. The majority of damage to bone growth plates in children stems from a lack of adult supervision and improper lifting techniques.  According to the study  “Relative safety of weightlifting and weight training,” the National Strength & Conditioning Association actually supports weight training in both children and adolescents.  Additional studies support weight training for children as young as six, when age-specific weight training guidelines are followed.

We at Velocity 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. As you probably know, training at Velocity Sports Performance isn’t easy, but as a result, your body adapts rapidly to the progressive stresses that are placed on it while you’re here. The training that we do here enhances your muscular as well as your neurological system, making you powerful. Our conditioning program makes your heart stronger, enabling you to more rapidly recover from brief periods of intense exercise. That’s the good news. The bad news is that taking too long a break from the Velocity workouts can lead to big steps backward in performance. This is what exercise physiologists call “detraining.”       

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.