Velocity Sports Performance

Good workout regimen if you need structure. Not cheap. Good trainers. Not very crowded.

Elite Coaching and programs, and adaptable for ANYONE. Its a Disneyland of a gym. Highly recommend this place to anyone!

Workouts and coaches were great but their schedule is limited. Lately they have staffing issues due to a lot of coaches leaving so I went and looked for another box.

Good facility, good instructors… if you want to take your game… whatever that might be to another level… this is the place.
This isn’t your typical cross-​fit outfit… most of the people, if not all, have degrees in Kinesiology, etc and more than likely were athletes themselves.
Only downfall is that it’s a little pricey…

Soccer tots is a great program! Energetic coaches and lots of activities throughout the hour. My son leaves sweaty and tired after having so much fun!

Terrible business practices! My close friends booked this space well in advance for their ten-​year old son’s birthday party. They put down a security deposit and sent out invitations. Out of the blue, Velocity Sports decided to cancel their booking in favor of another event that came up after the birthday party was already scheduled. What kind of people do that?!?
Needless to say, their greedy behavior has resulted in a very disappointed ten year old boy. Don’t trust these people for your events!

This review is for the soccer tots and hoopster tots programs. My son just loves going to these classes. The coaches are awesome with toddlers! They know how to get their attention and keep it fun! I love the classes since they also give your kids an introduction to structure, basic sports skills, and they get some exercise.

This place has a lot to offer. I brought my 5 yr old here for soccer camp in association with
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This is a very large facitlity with high ceiling. This is important as small dank gyms would stink from all the sweat. A group of toddlers may not get smelly when they get sweaty, but this facility is also used by rather large adults.
Further they have lots of large doors which provide lots of circulation.
Anyway back to Soccer Tots. I highly recommend the program to any parent looking to introduce their child to soccer. They teach a lot of fundamentals with age appropriate games. This included ball control and a little ball handling.
Hubby is coaching our daughter’s AYSO team this season and will be using these drills and exercises to help the girls have fun and learn to play.

I enjoyed interning here at velocity working with the nfl combine guys. The trainers here (Sean nick yo) are great to learn from and work with. Coach Ken is a genius when it comes to fitness and strength training.
Jon is a walking douche bag. Must be nice hazing interns.

Great place, friendly, professional staff. My son is a football player; he is getting offers to play college football. He works hard at Velocity a few times a week. All the coaches make sure that he is improving in all areas to play a better ball in college. He loves going there and having great workouts. Thank you VELOCITY.

Make and keep those new years resolutions with a personal trainer at velocity sports. Top notch friendly staff.
Serious about becoming an athlete? Small class sizes and lots of one on one training.

Take it from the (usually) slowest person on the turf (an indoor, spotless, 35-​yard turf, that is), this place is about serious fitness. I’m a part of a bootcamp group: it meets 2 days a week, conveniently at 6pm (which forces me to leave work at decent time), for an hour of conditioning that leaves me sucking down gulpfuls of air and water like they’re going out of style. And trust me — that hour is plenty; I relish the days between to recover.
What makes this bootcamp great is that I am allowed work at my own pace to ultimately beat… my less-​fit self. The warm up is a cardio demon — a series of increasingly fast-​paced routines to warm up the muscles and get me loose (and prepared) for the high intensity training ahead. Jump-​squat 10 yards, lunges for another 5, jog 15 yards, hand walk 10, skip-​for-​distance 20, sprint 10, then down on the ground (ahhhhhh) for toe touches and leg lifts. Back up again. Skip for height 20 yards, jog backwards for 10… and so on. Fifteen minutes and a sip fountain water later, the real part begins.
Over the next 30 minutes I will endure a mixture of interval training sets which leave me exhausted but also gratified. The sequences are different every time. My muscles at the end of the hour may hate me, but they can’t deny a fact: I’m getting stronger every week.

I am not the kind of person who likes to workout. Usually I go to the gym and do the treadmill or elliptical for 30 minutes and then I call it a workout. Mostly I’m pretty sedentary and get to the gym only on weekends. I wasn’t really doing myself any good at my regular gym. Started working out at Velocity and wanted to start slow. The trainers train professional athletes so I was a little intimated at first. My husband has been going here for over 2 years and can’t stop talking about it, so I decided to try it myself. They break up the workout into 3 separate sections. First there is a dynamic warmup with cardio and stretches for 25 minutes. Second there are a series of activities from weight lifting to stretching to some cardio to obstacle course depending on what the trainers have in store that day. Third is another series of exercises to spike the heart rate. At first I only did the dynamic warmup, the the next session, I did the first 2 sections, then the next session I did the entire hour of workout. The workouts even with just the dynamic warmup was intensive enough to get me to feel the burn. The workouts are more fun and you don’t feel your ass was kicked while you’re doing it so it was not difficult to get through the entire hour. However, your body feels it the next day so you know you did some good. The classes are fun and every day is a new routine so you are never bored. They rotate trainers around so in addition to a different workout, you get different training styles. All of the trainers are very nice and they help you with your form as you go along. The energy of the class is truly amazing. You get a great workout and its fun as well. I never knew how fun workouts could be.

2013 Update:
I’m dropping two stars from my earlier review. The place is still good and the coaches are great but they discontinued the evening boot camp class and replaced it with Cross Fit. That change came with a 30% increase in class fees and IMHO the Cross Fit classes aren’t keeping me as fit as I was in Boot Camp. It’s time for me to find another club. Cross Fit is great if you want to do Olympic-​style weight lifting and a lot of pull ups and like having down time between each activity. Boot Camp was a great combo of strength and endurance training with no down time — it was constant activity for 60 minutes and while we used weights frequently the class was not focused on heavy weight lifting. I guess it all depends what you are looking for.
I’m not the only one who missing the previous style of class. The 9am women’s fitness class was also converted to Cross Fit and after a couple of months the women threatened to leave en masse for another club. Velocity managers listened to them, and re-​instituted the previous boot camp-​style workouts for them.
I notice most of the reviews here were written before Cross Fit started at Velocity in early 2013.
Previous review from Sept. 2011: I’ve been going to Velocity for about a year for their evening adult boot camp. This is a great workout at an excellent facility. Velocity has a weight room but it also has a 30-​yard «football» field and a track, all indoors. The hour-​long workouts incorporate weight lifting, every kind of fitness exercise and a LOT of cardio. Boot camp meets two nights per week for 8 weeks. It costs less than what I used to pay a personal trainer, and the workout and experience has been far better. Class size is good. We start each 8-​week session with about 20 people but only the truly dedicated continue to show up for each class. Ages range from 20’s to 50’s. Class instructor Jonathan is fantastic – he’ll push you to achieve a fitness level you didn’t think was possible.
Velocity runs a lot of youth fitness programs too. Some boot campers train while their kids are in other classes.

Wanna get that ass back in gear for football season? Trying to get over the hump for your next triathlon? Working on your vertical leap for volleyball? Velocity Sports is the place to go!
Recently, I enjoyed a month of training at Velocity Sports Performance in Redondo Beach. I won the free 1 month membership in a raffle. Yay me! :)
Velocity is not your ordinary gym. It’s not even your ordinary personal training center. Its all of that and more. The goal at Velocity is to make the trainees better athletes no matter what the sport. All of their exercises are geared towards making you stronger, better, faster… kinda like that Kanye song. Ha!
Anyway, I quickly found out that their workouts were very different from anything I had experienced. The warm up is about 15 to 20 minutes long and consists of any number of activities including jump rope drills, sprints, stretches, and my favorite: hand walks. It took the entire month for me to get through the warm up without asking «are we done!?».
After warming up, the instructor leads the class through more drills depending on the focus for the day. Each class includes a weight lifting exercise (lots of power squats!) and a fitness drill like making jumps higher or getting sprints quicker. I like the variety because each class is different.
I also like the class sizes. Its not like a gym where there may be 20 – 30 people in your class. Each adult class is limited to 8. I went to classes at Noon and the biggest class I saw then was 4. This provided for lots otf one-​on-​one attention from the instructor.
Oh, the facility is cool too with about 40 yards of astro-​turf marked out like a football field, all indoors. I ran up and down that field many times carry weights, jumping rope, squatting, and many more heinous activities that whippped my butt into shape. They also have a track, a small basket ball court, and an weight room. Locker rooms too with lockers and a shower.
In a nutshell, Velocity trains you like the pros. If you ever wondered what spring training was like, stop in for a free demo and you’ll find out very quickly! Seriously, after a month at Velocity, ANY class at my regular gym is cake.