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Eating fat does not make you fat. Fat is a necessary macronutrient that helps keeps you satisfied between meals and helps balance hormones. Some types of fat help reduce inflammation and contribute to keeping the skin youthful. Eliminating or dramatically reducing intake of fat can lead to unnecessary hunger pains, unpredictable mood swings, premature aging and unhealthily looking skin. You need fat, but you need the right kind of fat in the right amounts.  

The deadlift is a total body exercise used primarily to strengthen the lower body, but more specifically the posterior chain. There are a lot of debates as to whether the sumo (wide stance) or conventional (close stance) style of deadlift is better for athletes.

Coaches are often frustrated and puzzled. They look back over their careers and realize that some of their most talented athletes—athletes who seemed to have everything-- never achieved success. Why? The answer is that these athletes didn’t have everything. They didn’t have the right mindset.

Velocity Sports Performance – Redondo Beach prepared some of this year’s top NFL Draft picks including 5 that were selected in the 1st Round. 

More and more, coaches and parents are asking the question, "When is it safe for my child to start strength training?" Several other questions such as "What exercises should young athletes perform?" and "How often should they engage in strength training?" quickly follow.  This article is designed to shed some light on these and other questions and dispel some common 'myths' surrounding youth strength training.

Over 16 years of working in the field of sports performance as a coach, I have often heard from players, parents and coaches; “Soccer players need speed, not strength.”  This is a conclusion that comes from watching the game where speed is such a crucial components to success, and comparing it to a sport like football or wrestling. It comes from the idea that “strength” means bulky bodybuilders.  Here’s the trick though, your speed depends on certain strength qualities.   If you want an edge, let your opponents believe that’s true while you get stronger and faster.

The key to any effective nutrtion program is consistency. To get results, you must stick to the program at least 90% of the time (i.e., no more than 4 meals out of an average of 42 meals per week violate the program). One of the biggest obstacles to being consistent is timing. For those of us who say, “I don’t have time to eat 5 meals,” or “I eat out because I don’t have time to pack a lunch,” there are no excuses. The barrier to success is not a lack of time, but rather a lack of planning.

This month Developmental 1 athlete Jordan Alejo has been selected as Athlete of the Month. He was selected by the coaches here at Velocity Sports Performace, Southbay for his hard work ethic, consistent attendance and improved performance.

Spring Break Speed & Agility Camp: For Soccer, Football, Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball, Basketball, and Tennis Players. Improve First Step Quickness, Increase Lateral Speed, Improve Top Speed, and Reduce the likelihood of Injury

There are numerous theories and viewpoints on how to train for the test, but I want to explain how we trained our NFL Combine Prep Class and why I believe it is the best way for an athlete to prepare him to hit his goals. 

Feedback to athletes on their performance is very important to facilitate motor learning. This is true when coaching sports performance or coaching many sports themselves.  Athletes are always getting some feedback from their kinestethic (own body) sense; whether that feedback is well tuned is an entirely different story.

The Velocity Sports Performance athlete of the month for March is Frasier Haber. There has not been an athlete more deserving of this award than Frasier. You can say that he has been wanting and waiting for this for quite some time. He plays ice hockey for the LA Selects in Lakewood where he is the team captain.

From now on, “Fast Food” no longer means a trip to your favorite burger joint or grabbing a bag of chips from the vending machine. Sometimes, no matter how much time was spent planning and preparing food for the week, a time comes when you need food and need it FAST. Sleeping in, late to a meeting, stuck in traffic for 2 hours . . . it is imperative to have some healthy emergency or “fast food” options available.    

Improve First Step Quickness Increase Lateral Speed Improve Top Speed Reduce the Likelihood of Injury

Velocity Football Academy is an off-season training program for football players. NFL Veteran Bucky Brooks along with some of the South Bay's top High School Football Coaches, as well as college and former NFL players will be coaching skills and technique in a small group settings.

Increase Quickness & Agility Gain Strength Improve Home to First Speed Increase Rotational Power Reduce the Likelihood of Injury

Just about everyone these days will agree that a sound strength and conditioning program is necessary for all athletes in order to help increase performance and minimize the risk/severity of injury.  Not long ago it was thought that strength training for baseball was not required.  Lifting too much weight would cause a baseball player to become too big, slow and render their throwing arm useless.  Obviously this is not the case when you take a look at how the size of baseball players at all levels has changed.  With this change, we still have guys crushing homers out of parks and still beating the throw to first.  The problem is no longer that baseball players are not strength training, it is that they are not training properly.  A typical baseball program now looks more like a body building program than a program designed to increase the on field performance of the athlete. 

Carbohydrates are the main source of fuel for your body. Each gram of CHO contains 4 kilocalories (calories). In general, around 40% of your total caloric intake should come from CHO. Athletes who are training and competing should consume around 6-10 g CHO/ kg of bodyweight.

Specialized 1 day Clinics for Volleyball Players

Velocity Football Academy  is an off-season training program for football players.  NFL Veteran Bucky Brooks, along with some of the South Bay's top High School Football Coaches, as well as college and former NFL players will be coaching skills and techinque in a small group setting.

The reactive box jump is an advance plyometric exercise that develops biomotor abilities such as reactivity, rate of force development and eccentric strength. These qualities are essential to sports with repeated jumps where it is important not only jump high, but also in a short amount of time. Volleyball, basketball and soccer players benefit from doing this drill, as well as track athletes like long and triple jumpers.

When it comes to coaching, I often talk about building your coaching skills. Many people in our profession today are self proclaimed experts. These gurus are great at marketing, but haven't actually developed their coaching skills in the trenches with real athletes, but they're still happy to tell you how to do it.

Velocity Sports Performace, Southbay has chosen Brett Montgomery as the January  Athlete of the Month. Brett is currently one of the top Adult Fitness clients and has shown the coaching staff that his efforts and hard work should be rewarded with this honor. Brett is 41 years old, plays basketball in his spare time, and has a son who also trains at VSP. 

Velocity Sports Performace, Southbay has chosen Brett Montgomery as the January  Athlete of the Month. Brett is currently one of the top Adult Fitness clients and has shown the coaching staff that his efforts and hard work should be rewarded with this honor. Brett is 41 years old, plays basketball in his spare time, and has a son who also trains at VSP. 

Last month’s article outlined the three keys to nutritional success: quality fuels, proper timing, and maintaining consistency. While these keys are essential to creating a healthy diet and routine, trying to accomplish them all at once will become overwhelming. A great start to developing a healthy nutrition plan is to start with the most important meal of the day: breakfast.