Articles
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.
The Integrated Approach to Speed and Power Development
By Sean Donellan ATC, CSCS, Velocity Sports PerformanceDecember 18, 2007
“Is it really possible to get faster?”
It wasn’t too long ago that we were told our athletic ability was determined by our genetic makeup alone. And if you were not one of the lucky ones, sorry you picked the wrong parents, better luck next life! Well the truth is that speed is a skill, and like learning how to hit a baseball or throw a football it is a skill that can be taught and learned.
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.
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.
After-school Special
By Kelley King, Sports IllustratedMarch 14, 2005
"Welcome to Velocity Sports Performance, a fast-growing national chain of workout facilities where kids from aspiring T-ballers to Olympic-caliber collegians are getting faster, stronger and more agile. (And in lesser numbers, so are adults—from women wanting to lose postpregnancy pounds to NFL players looking to gain a step.) For $25 to $30 an hour Velocity’s clients are led through a variety of running, jumping and lifting drills by certified trainers, all of whom have been schooled in Velocity’s core principle: At the basis of all sports are certain fundamental movements. Sharpen those, and performance—and by extension, confidence and even happiness—will improve...."