Velocity Sports Performance
Summary: Velocity Sports Performance is the premiere athletic performance training organization in North America. Since 1999, Velocity Sports Performance has helped hundreds of thousands of athletes maximize their athletic potential. Velocity helps athletes achieve their goals by developing strength, power, coordination, agility, speed, flexibility, and energy systems with an additional focus on injury prevention, recovery/regeneration, and nutrition. There are nearly 50 Velocity Sports Performance training facilities across the United States.
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Podcasts:
Powerful starts off the line as a wide receiver are critical for creating space against a defensive back. Use this exercise to build your torque off the line, for faster starts, and leave defenders in the dust.
Learn how to be more explosive out of a two point stance with the two point broad jump exercise. A two point stance start is the position most WRs get in before a play starts.
Learn how to increase your leg power for maximum running acceleration and top speed with the loaded linear bound exercise.
Learn how to increase your two point stance acceleration speed with this drill.
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.
Your vertical jump may impact your sport less than your quickness. Game-time quickness is a result of an athletes speed, agility, and conditioning. Velocity Sports Performance helps you make big gains in all three. Whether its speed to the ball, agility to lose a defender, or the fitness to play your best from beginning to end, we can help you with that.
Energy drink companies spend about $3 Billion a year to convince athletes the caffeine and sugar in their drinks help athletic performance. Rett Larson from Velocity Sports Performance explains how you may be hurting your performance if you consume the wrong beverage before competition or working out.
A crucial part of being an agile athlete is having great reaction time and that's a quality that needs to be trained. The good news is that by working on the neural pathways that link your eyes, brain, and movements, we also make you less likely to get injured. Adding reactive, chaotic sprints to your workout is a fun way to get fast and injury-proof.
Training with the wrong shoe can cause your foot to become weak which can lead to serious ankle, knee, hip, or back injury. Training barefoot or with shoes that simulate a barefoot experience will make you a stronger, less injury prone athlete.
Learn how to coach the best two point stance starting position for WR's.
Learn how to coach defensive backs to change direction quickly with this football drill.
Learn how to improve a defensive backs speed when they transition from the backpedal to running with a wide receiver.
Once you master the back pedal as shown in the previous podcast episode, use the plant and drive technique to quickly change directions to keep tight coverage on wide receivers. Master the plant and go and you'll be making more interceptions.
A defensive back must back pedal as fast as a wide receiver runs forward. Learn how to coach your defensive backs to improve their speed and agility from a former NFL Corner Back, Charles Dimry.
Playing sports requires a series of single leg explosions that require leg power and a strong core that can transfer force onward and upward. We show you the Rear Foot Elevated Split Squat to improve leg power and core musculature.
