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The weight loss and diet industry is a booming billion dollar business, and everyone is reaching for a piece of the pie.  New diet research, philosophies, and strategies abound, often contradicting or debunking the prior most popular fad. Are we counting calories? Or carbs?  Fats were one day bad but now they say some are good. Break away from the buzz. The busters listed below are time tested, universal truths.

Calories

A calorie is a unit of measurement. Specifically, it’s a unit of...

Now, what is AIS – Active Isolated Stretching – all about? Active Isolated-Stretching is a stretching method which focuses on one muscle at one time. By actively contracting muscles opposite of the targeted muscle, AIS automatically relaxes specific muscles in preparation of its stretch. AIS is performed by gentle and quick stretches, and releases the muscle before it has a chance to protectively contract.

Active Isolated-Stretching allows the body to become more efficient through...

Like many ideas and concepts in life, stretching, is a world where it seems everyone knows something about nothing! Each time I turn around someone is demonstrating the newest and greatest stretch with no real knowledge of the how’s and why’s. At Velocity Sports Performance Naples we invest our time in developing flexibility and range of motion through Active Dynamic Warm-ups and AIS techniques. Yet, how many times have you asked yourself, as a VelocityTrained Athlete, what is Active...

We have all been told to “Sit up straight” or “Don’t slouch your shoulders” at some point in our lives, usually by our Parents. It turns out they were teaching us to improve our posture. Poor posture can be an indicator of a weak core. Our core muscles surround and support our spine and are responsible for maintaining good posture. These muscles are also a very important component of athletic performance. We as trainers cue our athletes to keep their back flat and draw in their belly buttons...

It’s one of the most catastrophic injuries that can happen to an athlete and we see it in the sports headlines every season. A torn ACL has taken a key player out for up to 9 months, and therefore typically marks the end of that season (and often extends into the next as well).

For many, this has significant impact on that athlete’s prospect to be recruited by college coaches which may lead to a missed opportunity to get acceptance into the school(s) of choice. And from a purely economic...