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Joe Marsit

Joe Marsit has trained a variety of professional and college athletes, as well as Olympians, and for the past 2 years, has worked with high school state champion teams in a variety of sports. He is the director of Athlete Performance at Velocity Sports Performance in Scottsdale. Glenn Steele is the Sports Performance Director at Velocity.

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» Selecting the Right Training Facility for You
By Joe Marsit | Published 05/1/2006 | Other , April/May 2006 (Issue 12) | Unrated

This time around, we’ll discuss how the training facility you choose will play a big role in you getting the most out of speed and performance training and why consistency is so important.

On a regular basis, we’re asked by parents and athletes what they could do to be faster and more athletic. Our response to them is very simple: The key to becoming a faster athlete is to consistently train in an athletic fashion under conditions which allow for optimum training results. Improvements in speed and athletic ability are analogous to any other sport skill. If you want to be better at a specific sports skill, you must practice that skill repeatedly.

» Planned progressive training can reduce injuries
By Joe Marsit | Published 02/1/2006 | Other | Unrated
For any high school athlete, the most difficult situation to remedy is the return to competition following a major knee injury. In this issue, even though we’ll be focusing in on some of the challenges facing female athletes, the guys should note that these same devastating, and in many cases preventable, injuries are also on the rise for men.

Lost practice and play time, coupled with the injury, may produce the gap that denies you the ability to receive a collegiate scholarship and move to the next level.