The Greenman Performance Project

Take a Tenth of a second off your 40 time!

2010-06-24T07:32:00.001-07:00

It has been a while since my last post, as summer schedule has started up here at my place of employment: Velocity Sports Performance. Things are really booming here and athletes all over the Low Country are becoming better athletes exercise by exercise here at Velocity. Becoming faster, stronger, more agile, less injury prone, and most importantly becoming more explosive athletes.

I'd like to bring an article to your attention on sleep habits and athletic performance. I know what you're thinking, I always cover the aspects that are least likely covered in mainstream sports. I like to stay off the beaten path at times.

Sleeping. So overlooked but yet SO important. This study (the link is below) showed that by only sleeping 10 hours a night, Stanford football players were able to reduce their 40 yard dash times from 4.99 to 4.89, a reduction by a tenth of a second by simply getting more sleep per night. That is a simplistic way in becoming a better athlete, especially in the sport of football.

I've never met a football player than wouldn't want to reduce their 40 yard dash time by .1 second. So do yourself a favor and get some more sleep tonight. In the meantime, read the article below because it has some awesome ways to accomplish 10 hours a night if you think you don't have time for it.

CLICK HERE for the article on sleep improving 40 yard dash times and improving your health overall.

Off-Season Basketball Training

2010-05-13T07:45:00.000-07:00

Found an amazing article that covers a couple of MUST-HAVES for your off-season basketball program. All of the concepts listed can be accomplished here at Velocity Sports Performance all year long!!

Click Here for the Article

Recovery, Recovery, Recovery...

2010-04-09T08:28:00.000-07:00

If you haven't read my article on Recovery, you need to Start Here. Recovery is one of the most overlooked training concepts in all of sports performance. For more on this subject, click below!

CLICK HERE to read yet another great written article on Recovery

You don't need Gatorade...

2010-03-31T09:15:00.000-07:00

Unless you are an athlete with extreme circumstances. If you are "working out" or training 6-7 days/week then you may need a little external help from a product like Gatorade. Gatorade, for the most part, is nothing more than flavored sugar water...what Gatorade likes to label as "electrolytes." Gatorade is a lot better at marketing their product than improving it, no question about it! Contained in a standard 20 oz bottle of Gatorade is the following,

- 34 g of SUGAR - That's close to 8 teaspoons of pure sugar poured into that "performance enhancer."

- High Fructose Corn-Syrup - Don't believe those pro-HFCS commercials you're seeing on TV, this stuff is like drinking lard mixed with a little vegetable oil.

- NO Fruit Juice! - Conclude your own thoughts on this one

Do yourself and me a favor and drink the best performance enhancer of all-time: WATER!!!!!!

CLICK HERE for a list of why WATER is so amazing!

MARCH MADNESS IS IMPROVING?

2010-03-19T12:42:00.000-07:00

COLLEGE BASKETBALL IS GETTING BETTER? Everyone has it right now...March Madness fever. If you are a male, you are in a pool with friends or maybe even co-workers. If you are a female, you are probobly doing the same. Not to knock females right now but a good majority of the time, females pick the winner by playing eeny, meeny, miny, mo or which jersey has prettier colors in it. For males, the sad thing is that it is the females that win most of the time.

All over the radio, I hear that college basketball as a whole is diminishing. "There is no front runner this year and everybody is just average" is all I'm hearing. To me, it's not that college basketball is getting worse. It is purely a matter of more elite level athletes coming out of high school than ever before. There are unbelievably gifted (athletically) players playing at smaller schools that have the potential to take down a college basketball powerhouse of past years. Georgetown lost to Ohio, a team that made the tournament by the skin of their teeth. Murray State took down Vanderbilt. Temple was beat by Cornell. It was Cornell's first victory ever in the tournament. Ever. These smaller programs are not beating the bigger foes because they're just getting lucky. They simply have athletes and good basketball players at that.

The level of basketball skill in this country goes up everyday. Kids have more opportunities to get better than ever before. Kids used to get better by putting in hours on their hoop in the backyard. No there is are countless camps, academies, special shooting coaches, sports performance enhancement facilities (I know of a good one, Velocity Sports Performance), and every kind of shooting and dribbling aid you can imagine. As you watch more games in the tournament, as I will be this weekend, appreciate the athleticism that is displayed on each and every court! Have any questions or comments, list them BELOW!!!

When Should My Son and/or Daughter Start Training w/ You?!?!?!?!?

2010-03-12T05:38:00.000-08:00

Our normal youth program here starts at age 8. You may be thinking that is too young. Is it too young to have fun? Is it too young to start working on simple loco motor skills? Is it too young to work on gross motor skills? Athletes used to get these things listed above in their Physical Education, gym for you "old schoolers,"but that is no longer the case. We don't make our youth program like that of the Russians, turning our athletes into finely tuned athletic machines. We may be hoping for the finely tuned part but the aspect that should jump out at you is the machine part. Our number one goal for our youth program is to HAVE FUN!!

We have began to take over the P.E. program of many kids. I have high school age athletes that can not functionally skip in a straight line. Yes, i am completely serious. I have high school athletes that can't balance on one foot for more than 15 sec without falling onto the opposite foot. These movement qualities should have been taught more that 10 YEARS AGO!! This is Velocity Sports Performance comes in.

If you live in the greater Charleston area, be on the lookout for our "Future All-Stars" program that we will be starting for our younger athletes, ages 5-7. If you'd like more information regarding this program, leave me a comment below. In the meantime, read the article I've posted about common youth sports performance questions. Have an excellent weekend and enjoy life!!!!!

Click here for the article by Brett Klika

Athletic Position?

2010-02-26T12:08:00.000-08:00

Being able to get into an athletic position is one of the best predictors of overall athleticism? My answer to that question last week from an athlete is most definitely YES!

It's hard to believe but there is a huge correlation between the two; A proper athletic position and overall athleticism. By simply putting an athlete that I train in an athletic position I will be able to asses their:

- Hip abductor and adductor mobility
- Core strength/Core stabilization
- Quadricep and Hamstring Flexibility
- Quadricep and Hamstring strength
- Rhomboid and Latissimus Dorsi Strength - Mid and Upper Back Strength
- Body Control
- Balance in static hold position

From the article below (Be sure to read it, it's excellent!) you may be able to use this, putting an athlete in an athletic position, as a precursor to determining athleticism without ever making them move. Give it a try yourself next to a mirror and asses your strength and/or weaknesses today!

To read one of the most efficiently and well-written articles on "The Athletic Position" CLICK HERE

SPECIALIZATION KILLING SPORTS IN AMERICA!!!!!!!

2010-02-03T09:35:00.000-08:00

Specialization is growing at an astronomical rate in adolescent sports throughout America today. Personally, I believe this is the single largest contributor to young children dropping sports prematurely (and more importantly exercise altogether) on top of a growing epidemic of overuse injuries. Specialization is also contributing to the obesity rate skyrocketing. Children are learning to hate the sport they play because of having to participate in it 365 days per year. Parents are to blame.

Yes, as supportive as many parents are, they are crippling their children with unnecessary pressure and outlandish expectations. Almost on a daily basis, I have a parent (commonly the Father) walk through our doors (At Velocity Sports Performance) with dreams of their child turning professional in their chosen sport. The majority of the time it is the sport choice of the parent, not the child, because one of the parents played the given sport in high school and/or college. Most are telling me that the child has the potential to play at the next level (@ age 8 or 9) yet when taking the athlete through a formal evaluation, the athlete cannot preform a simple loco motor skill (such as a jumping jack).

Notice when collegiate coaches speak about the skill level of a particular athlete. Rarely they find an athlete that is amazing at the sport and not an impressive overall athlete. Majority of elite level athletes have unbelievable overall athleticism. Athleticism is something that crosses over many sports. For example, true athletes are ones that complete a collegiate career playing basketball and then decide after graduating to pursue a career in beach volleyball, without ever picking up a volleyball. Many professional athletes have never played their chosen sport until late in their sporting career.

Probably the largest reason not to specialize: burnout!!!!!!!!!! We'll save that post for the future though...

In the meantime, check out this great article on specialization : CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

2010-01-28T09:31:00.000-08:00

Everyone has always heard that it's important to get as much sleep as possible. I can bet that you've never heard that you can become a better athlete by simply getting 10 hours of sleep per night. I know it sounds crazy and maybe even outlandish but if you increase your amount of sleep systematically and gradually, you'll feel and perform better than you ever have.

In any sport that I've ever played, the night before the game, my Coaches would all say the same thing, "make sure you get a good night sleep before the big game tomorrow!" As this article suggests, it is simply not enough to get one night of quality sleep. You must be willing to commit to repeated night of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep of 10 hours or more. Read the article (LINK BELOW) to see how a group of collegiate tennis players completed a sprint test, on average, almost 2 seconds faster just by concentrating on their nightly sleeping habits.

MORE SLEEP = ATHLETIC SUCCESS

No Shoes?!?!?!

2010-01-26T09:26:00.000-08:00

If you read exercise mags of any kind you have probably seen the latest fad (that has actually been around for more than 1000's of years) of running and training barefoot. I'd like you to watch a video that Velocity put out that explains some of the concepts behind training barefoot. It's not for everyone but hey, give a try, you might find something you love.

If you're not willing to go all out and run like a caveman, try the Nike FREE shoes (like they recommend in the video). I have a pair myself and can honestly say they are my favorite shoes! Nike FREE is a line of shoes and I have had more than 6 or 7 models in the line, AMAZINGLY comfortable!

Here's the video:
http://velocitysp.com/blog?id=94

10 Nutritional Facts to Live by

2010-01-25T13:38:00.000-08:00

10 Health Tips for the Week
* These tips are general guidelines of healthy eating. We are neither dieticians nor nutritionists. All of this information can be found in medical and sports nutrition journals.

1. Color your Plate. Your plate should have color to it. For example, if I am eating some roasted chicken and a baked potato, the plate will look pretty bland…add a side salad, maybe a full slice of fresh tomato, some cooked baby carrots, and now we are talkin’.

2. You cannot eat enough fresh fruit and vegetables. Simply not possible. Snacking on such foods while you cook meals will decrease your appetite for a huge, heavy meal.

3. Eat foods that are fresh, not processed or preserved.

4. Drinking one full glass of water before you eat a meal will work wonders. You won’t be as hungry and your digestive track will thank you.

5. Graduate to whole wheat, always. You can find almost everything in whole wheat form and if you can’t find it, you probably not looking hard enough!

6. If you have an addiction, try these substitutes…chocolate, eat dark chocolate…alcohol, drink one glass of red wine…cigarettes, slap yourself in the face, which is what we want to do to you when you smoke.

7. Add more fish and poultry to your diet. Turkey is not reserved solely for Thanksgiving (the gravy can wait another year, however).

8. Eat breakfast. Need help?—buy a six pack of yogurt and a box of granola. Marry the two in matrimonial bliss and you will be a breakfast lover for life.

9. Eat slowly. Enjoy your food. Slow eating tricks your body into thinking you have eaten more than you really have.

10. Do not wait until you are hungry to eat. Always have some peanuts or dried fruit handy (or some types of snack, SEE BELOW).

Staff’s Favorite Snacks
1. Oven-roasted sweet potato fries
2. Wilted spinach with cooked pine nuts
3. Hard-boiled eggs, no yolk
4. Cut apples with nut butter
5. Cooked broccoli

Happy Holidays and the Last Installment of Speed Myths

2010-01-05T07:50:00.000-08:00

I trust that everyone had a glorious holiday season! Mine was the best I've ever had. It was the first Christmas spent with my beautiful wife as a married couple on top of the fact I got to spend it back where I grew up, in the great state of Michigan.

We skied (around 1.5 ft of snow while in Mich while averaging around 10-25 degrees outside), relaxed, watched football (totally different than relaxing because there are so many amazing college football games over the holiday season), played some games out on the ice (a frozen lake, not an ice rink that's indoors, for all you southern gems), spent time with family (the best time of all), visited with many past and present friends, and reflected on how much I have been blessed with throughout my life.

Now that I have got my holidays bliss out of the way, lets' get to the last installment of the top 10 speed training myths! Pay special attention to #9. Flexibility, in my honest opinion, is the most overlooked component of any strength and conditioning program. Parents and athletes alike are amazed when I tell them I can make them faster by simply making them more flexible. Enjoy!

8. Interval training is the same as speed training.

Repeatedly running 100s, 200s, etc. won’t improve top speeds. Even running repeat 40s with short recovery periods won’t improve acceleration and top speed. Speed work is defined as 2–8 seconds of maximal intensity running with full recovery. That means there should be at least two minutes of light dynamic movement between each effort. This goes against the experience of some coaches but is the only way to improve speed. An athlete must be able to focus on proper form and maintain intensity in order to get faster. If they don’t recover properly from each interval, they won’t be able to replicate proper mechanics with consistency and they can’t improve.

9. Flexibility won’t help you get faster.

Both coaches and athletes spend so much time on the skills of their sport, speed training, and conditioning, they often forget a fundamental component of success—flexibility. After practice or a game, the muscles are warm and loose. This is the time to work on increasing flexibility. So many athletes suffer injuries or compete below their capacity because poor flexibility inhibits their range of motion and speed. We see this in the hips and hip flexors where the stride lengths of athletes appear conspicuously short. Most often we see this in male athletes who will lift weights, train hard, and then skip out on their cool down and flexibility work.

10. Lift your knees.

When parents and coaches want their kids to run faster or when the kids are beginning to fatigue, I hear many yell at the kids, “Lift your knees. Get your knees up.” This is one of the most backward cues that we can give to athletes. The way to run faster is to apply more force to the ground. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction so the more force that you apply to the ground, the more the ground will give back. So when we cue athletes to lift their knees, we’re doing two things incorrectly. One, we’re telling them to use their hip flexors to lift instead of their glutes and hamstrings to drive down. Just think about the size of your hip flexor versus the size of your glutes and hamstrings. Now which muscles do you think can create more force and therefore more speed?

Second, we’re cueing them to do a movement that is in opposition to what generates speed. If an athlete learns at age seven to lift his knees when he needs a burst of speed, the improper cue will be hardwired into his brain. To unlearn that as a teenager and to do the opposite and drive down will delay the athlete’s progress. He or she will have a difficult time coordinating an entirely new way of running and will potentially have to take a step or two backward. That’s why it’s critical to learn proper form early and get an advantage over those who still aren’t getting the best instruction. So cue athletes to step over the opposite knee and drive the foot down into the ground with the foot landing underneath the hip.

Top 10 Speed Training Myths Revealed (Cont.)

2009-12-09T10:18:00.000-08:00

Top 10 (#4-7) Speed Training Myths Revealed
Pay special attention to #7, which is the most common myth of all!!!!

4. Training slow makes you fast.

I don’t think coaches directly think this way but their training techniques imply otherwise. This is especially true in sports that involve a higher aerobic element such as soccer, field hockey, or lacrosse. I see kids out running mileage and doing long, slow intervals of several minutes of continuous running. This will get them in shape. However, in games, I see kids jogging, jogging and then sprinting at full speed for 20–30 yards. Then they run, jog, and sprint for 20–30 more yards. If you want kids to improve their acceleration and top speed so that they can get to the ball faster or get back on defense, you have to train by running at full speed in practice.

5. You must train hard every day.

The workout itself is only a piece of the training puzzle. It’s the time between intense workouts—the recovery—where athletes make their improvements. Generally, it takes 36–48 hours to recover from high intensity training. If athletes are doing too much too often, they become over trained. Coaches can expect to see an increase in injuries, complaints about being sore more often, decreased performance, and higher levels of fatigue earlier in games. It’s always better to under train an athlete than over train. Err on the side of caution to get maximal results.

6. Strength training will stunt a young athlete’s growth.

This is another myth held over from a different time. On a daily basis, kids as young as seven years old are playing organized sports year round. They’re tackling, getting tackled, sliding, and falling. These loads on the body can have a much greater physical impact than a well-designed strength training program. Though we don’t usually begin training with weights with prepubescent athletes, they can benefit from body weight exercises such as push-ups, lunges, and sit-ups. This will increase muscular efficiency, speed up recovery, and improve coordination and overall speed.

7. The harder the workout, the better the result.

Some athletes (and coaches) have this mentality that if a workout doesn’t reduce them to complete exhaustion and/or make them vomit, it wasn’t an effective workout. I can tell you that those who have this mentality probably see many injuries and frustrating performances. The purpose of a workout is to stimulate an adaptation by the body. If the body is forced to do too much work in a given time period, it will break down. The skill in coaching is to stimulate the adaptation in the body without reaching a point of diminishing returns.

Top 10 Speed Training Myths Revealed!!!

2009-11-25T07:47:00.000-08:00

I would like to share an incredibly interesting article that I stumbled upon that describes the top ten speed training myths. I will load a different 3-4 myths each week for your reading pleasure. Enjoy these first three below:

Top 3 (of the Top 10) Speed Training Myths Revealed

By Patrick Beith

Every day someone asks me a question about training speed. So here are those questions heard most frequently as well as the answers to them.

1. Static stretching prepares you for competition/practice.

Static stretching actually reduces power output. Athletes should prepare for practice by doing a dynamic warm up that progresses from basic, low intensity movements to faster, more explosive movements as the muscles loosen up. The goal is to simulate movements that athletes will be using in practice or a game. What happens when you try to stretch a cold rubber band? You can think about your muscles the same way.

2. Strength training makes females too bulky

Many of the female athletes we train have this popular mindset. However, look at some elite female athletes like Mia Hamm or Lisa Leslie. They certainly train with weights, but no one would accuse them of having manly physiques. Strength training will improve performance and reduce injury if done correctly.

3. You can’t train speed.

For some reason, the popular belief is that you’re born with a certain amount of “speed” and you can’t improve it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most young athletes are so physically weak and mechanically out of tune that significant improvements in speed can be made often just by working on technique and form. Athletes at any age and any level can improve speed when implementing a complete speed training program designed to improve and develop the entire athlete.

It's Official!

2009-11-12T12:29:00.000-08:00

If you've read my last post, titled "The Strongest Human on Earth"; you may have been amazed (as was I) by the overall strength and athleticism of the un-named man in the video.

I may have found a human even more impressive! Check out this 5 (yes, I said 5) year old Bulgarian boy that will simply take your breath away...

The NEW Strongest Human on the Planet!

I have absolutely no idea what kind of training (other than what's on the video) this boy is doing but it has been rumored that he may be missing a hormone that limits and affects the production of testosterone. No one knows as of now, but one thing is for sure; he is unlike any 5-year old I've ever seen.

The Strongest Human on Earth

2009-11-06T09:31:00.000-08:00

You have got to check out this unbelievably strong individual!

This video is an unnamed man that I found on YouTube. He's got to be, pound for pound, the strongest human walking this earth. Click on the Link below:

Please "Mute" the sound as the music is offensive. Focus purely on the video.
Super-Human Strength

Controlling your own body weight is a true test of strength and explosiveness. Everyone's always amazed by the power lifter that can bench press 600-700 lbs once but looks away when that same person fails to do 3 pull-ups with only their body weight. A true test of ones' strength is pull-ups or Tricep dips. When's the last time you tried some?

Train Less to Gain More? The Five Best Ways to Improve Recovery

2009-10-20T06:26:00.000-07:00

That is often the response I hear from athletes and parents when I prescribe them rest and active recovery rather than more exercises and/or additional conditioning drills. I’m approached many times a week by athletes looking for something extra to do outside of Velocity’s walls to give them that extra couple inches on their vertical jump or ability to perform an extra 5 pounds in the bench press. What many don't understand is that your body is doing more than 90% it's growing and rebuilding after your workout rather than during.

The old adage of “if a little is good, than more is better” does not apply in modern age sports performance. Sports performance is becoming more and more scientific and strategically implemented. If you are still thinking it’s not a “good workout” unless you are pouring sweat and have vomit coming out of your nose, then you are incredibly wrong or should I say uneducated. “Old school” is not a term that binds well with a modern, and open minded sports performance coach unless you are speaking of the “old school” work ethic which young people in this generation have a thing or two to learn.

According to Google definitions, regeneration is defined as “growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs.” The lost tissue in this situation is skeletal muscle along with connective tissue that is broken down or damaged (in a good way) by physical activity. Regeneration techniques have been around for quite a while but have never been in a user friendly package that was readily accessible to athletes or even the general public. That is where Velocity Sports Performance of Mt. Pleasant has stepped in.

Here are the top 5 ways to recuperate your muscles after a grueling game, practice, or workout:

1. Come to Velocity’s 45 minute regeneration class specifically designed to get your muscles and connective tissue back in tip-top shape. Our regeneration class is offered EVERY Saturday from 9:45 – 10:30 am. You will leave the class feeling better than ever and within weeks be seeing performance gains that you could never have imagined. It’s what the Pros do, so why shouldn’t you be doing it?

2. Try 5 minutes of contrast showers BEFORE bed. Ice baths have been used since the begginning of time but there is something you can do after every game or workout in your own home. A contast shower is 30 seconds of ice cold water followed by 30 seconds of hot water that is repeated 5 times or until you get to 5 minutes. Cold water pulls all of your body's blood to your internal organs (which protects all of your your vitals) and the hot water pulls all that same blood back out to your skin and limbs. This flushes all the lactic acid and other toxins (that cause you aches and pains) out of you muscles. If you can endure the cold water you will feel like a a brand new person in the morning. Enjoy!

3. Get at least 8-10 hours of sleep to become FASTER (according to a Stanford study)! In the study, Tennis players who slept for 10 hours per night for 6 weeks saw an 8% improvement in their sprinting speed. That could be the difference between winning a losing a contest!

4. Stretch BEFORE you go to bed. Don’t just come home after a hard fought contest and go to sleep! You will wake up stiffer than the driveway you parked your car on. There is no magic in your routine either; just minutes of static stretching (3 sets for 30-45 seconds) for all the major muscle groups (Quadriceps, hamstrings, chest, shoulders, and calves).

5. Eat and Drink your Water!!! The human body is made up of nearly 60% water in males and 55% in females, so replenish that water level to keep your body well lubricated. The common misconception of 8 - 12 oz glasses of water per day is out the window because large amounts of water are contained in healthy food options that you can consume throughout the day. You should try to consume 3-4 glasses of water after a tough workout or competition and the same amount after you wake up the next morning. A 3% loss in water weight (Only 5 pounds for a 150 lb athlete) can translate into a 30% loss in power production (That’s going from a 30” vertical jump all the way down to a 21” just because you did not stay hydrated!!!). Drink water, it’s free.

Whether you’re an adult that is a weekend warrior or an athlete that plays volleyball, track, baseball, football, basketball, tennis or anything under the sun, you should be at our regeneration classes on Saturday mornings. To sign up for your first regeneration session or if you have any questions, call us at (843) 284 – 1395. Happy regenerating!

Welcome All!

2009-10-06T07:15:00.000-07:00

Sports are evolving before our eyes. There are moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas alike, traveling 48 weeks out of the year to follow their athlete playing the sport they love. There is money being spent on sports physiologists to give their son or daughter the "upper edge." Children are having surgery on their limbs due to overuse issues at age 10 when the same surgery, 15 years prior, was being performed on 30 year old men in the professional ranks. Young men and women are marketing themselves through videos and highlight reels to potential college powerhouses when they enter middle school to give them enough exposure to be granted a full athletic scholarship six years later. Children are being asked to specialize in one sport before they graduate from the fifth grade. For a price, you can have a DNA analysis done on a young athlete to see if they're destined for professional stardom and even what sport they will excel in. Sports are becoming more and more challenging for the young people that play them and the parents that support them. Sports are evolving before our eyes.

Sports are evolving before our eyes. Young women are winning professional golfing tournaments, professional tennis matches, and Olympic gold medals while still in their teens. Young men are setting new records in track and swimming that were unfathomable just 15 years ago. Young men only 18 years old were turning professional straight out of high school in basketball and continuing to dominate that same sport the very next year in the pros. It seems as though everyday you watch Sports Center there are more and more high school plays in their "Top Ten Plays." Two top ranked high school football teams played last Friday night before 20,000 fans and many thousands more on nationally televised ESPN2. High school football players are holding press conferences in front of thousands to announce where they are going to attend college (and play football more importantly to most) the next fall. Sports are evolving before our eyes.

Sports are evolving before our eyes. Whether we like the events that are happening or not, they are happening. Some of them positive and world changing, some of them heart wrenching. These stories of triumph and failure are surrounding us in a world of news at our finger tips.

I, Scott Greenman, will hope to bring you stories of triumph, tragedy, injury and returning from it, sports performance enhancement, movement science, strength training, coaching practices, flexibility techniques, speed enhancement, agility training, plyometrics, any and everything to do with the wide and glorious world of sports.

I am the Sports Performance Director at Velocity Sports Performance in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. I graduated from Hope College in Holland, MI after participating in football and track during my collegiate career. I have been surrounded by sports my entire life and hope to continue that trend for the remainder of my years of this beautiful earth. I have lived in the amazing city of Charleston, SC for almost 3 years now and have recently been married to the most gorgeous woman, inside and out, Mrs. Danielle Constantin Greenman. My hope in this blog is to educate and entertain you the reader. Feel free to send me an e-mail via my contact information below or comment on the page itself! Enjoy!

Scott Greenman CSCS, NASE
sgreenman@velocitysp.com