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Running fast and jumping high aren't just about how much strength you have in your legs. New research has shown that your ability to fully contract your core muscles and then rapidly relax them is just as important.

Ever think that skating on a treadmill could put you at risk?  Read on to learn more about the muscle activation required for explosive hockey moves.

It's not enough to "want" to get better.  You need to train to get better...and Velocity Sports Performance can help!

Along with Bill Welle of Velocity Sports Performance – Champlin, Larry Fitzgerald, Jr. will host his first Fitz “How Do You Train?” Challenge for several current NFL and college players on Monday, July 13th thru Wednesday, July 15th from 9-11am at the TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota campus.

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 Tuck, defensive end for the reigning super bowl champ New York giants, discusses his training at the Mahwah, NJ Velocity Sports Performance.

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. 

 

Champlin Park coach Mike Korton has hired Zach Seraphine, a trainer at Velocity Sports Performance in Champlin, to work with the football team.

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.