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Millions of high school, college and professional athletes are looking for supplements, training and nutritional answers to help give them an edge over the competition—and an edge they can depend on, since recent news of athletes testing positive for banned substances (blaming supposedly “tainted” sports nutrition products) have left athletes, coaches, trainers and parents confused about which products they can trust to push them to the next level.

That’s why Inner Armour, decided to launch a line of sports nutrition supplements for pro, college and high school athletes that is banned-substance free and powerful. And how do they know they’re powerful? Because they have seen the results from testing them on the best athletes in the world: those at the Parisi Speed and Strength School, the nation’s authority in improving performance in all major sports.

With 45 schools across the country—and consultants the American College of Sports Medicine, the New York Giants, the New York Jets , the New England Patriots, Rutgers University, Arizona State University, the NFL Youth Football Foundation and Nike—the Parisi Speed and Strength School has trained more than 100,000 athletesfrom every majorsport, resulting in more than 125 NFL draft picks and record-breaking Olympic medalists.

“The Inner Armour supplement line is undeniably the most powerful muscle-building and performance-enhancing breakthrough I have ever seen our athletes use in my 17 years of training,” says Bill Parisi, founder of the Parisi Speed and Strength School. Martin Rooney, director of the Parisi NFL Combine Program also states, “It helped our athletes turn their muscles into massive record-smashing machines. The 2009 NFL Combine class of athletes was one of the biggest, fastest and strongest groups I have ever seen. Inner Armour products are the only ones that the Parisi Speed and Strength School uses, endorses and recommends to its athletes. Knowing everything inside is banned substance free, it’s the only supplement line we trust.”

 

With its six-product portfolio just recently added to every Vitamin Shoppe in the country, Inner Armour is quickly gaining momentum with a national audience. Each product—including Nitro-Peak protein powder, Nitro-Peak 50x liquid protein shots, Mass-Peak weight gainer, Phospho-Peak creatine/ATP optimizer, Training-Peak multivitamin performance packs and Glyco-Peak sports drink mix—contains some of the world’s most groundbreaking clinically tested ingredients in the actual amounts in which they were tested, without the use of any banned substances.

Each Inner Armour product also includes one of five free “Secrets the Pros Use” DVDs, which offer training tips used on Parisi Speed and Strength School athletes to increase strength, speed and agility. “These are the real training methods, straight from what we teach our pro athletes,” says Parisi.

 

 

Inner Armour refers to one of their products in particular, Phospho-Peak, as an athlete’s dream. “Athletes depend on their body’s ability to produce and reproduce ATP for strength, speed and power output,” they say. “Phospho-Peak maximizes muscle ATP levels by using clinical amounts of Peak-ATP, the world’s first oral bioavailable pure ATP, beta alanine, Creapure®, phosphates and Krebs Cycle intermediates, making it uniquely suited to maximize overall mass, muscle speed, strength and power.” In fact, Inner Armour’s science-based banned substance free Phospho-Peak formula has been shown to increase total lifting weight 28.2 percent and increase total reps 18.5 percent.

As Inner Armour’s vision of bringing athletes the most effective and respected clinically tested banned substance free supplements available is realized, they are proud to have a hand in helping shape the next generation of top athletes. To check out the products for yourself, go to your local Vitamin Shoppe, or go to innerarmour.com

To all the readers of this blog, I am proud to announce the addition of two more DVDs to our training library. These DVDs are a result of the feedback I received about the other 10 DVDs in our series that I have produced over the last 5 years. Since our previous DVDs focused on training without speed equipment, it was often requested that I produce a DVD on how to train with the speed training equipment we use at the Parisi Speed School. The GameSpeed Change of Direction and GameSpeed Linear Speed DVDs are the fruit of those requests.

 

 

 

Although each of these 2-Disc DVDs contain dozens of exercises using the featured equipment we use at our school, I also made sure that they contain new training progressions and protocols as well. If you have enjoyed our previous DVDs, these new products will really be a complement to your training library.

 

To find out more about each DVD, you can click:

 

http://www.speedtrainingstore.com/videos.html

 

Using the following link, will give you access to a special price for purchasing both DVDs at once in our parisischool.com store.

 

http://store.speedtrainingstore.com/gadvdset.html

 

I thank everyone for their interest in our training products and I look forward to bringing you more information in the coming years.

 

Yours in Strength,

 

Martin Rooney

 

This weekend was the conclusion of another NFLCombine/Draftseason. The NFL Draft was held this past Saturday and Sunday at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The draft is an agonizing time in which prospective athletes wait in hopes of getting their name called as one of the 255 picks selected by one fo the 32 NFL Franchises.

The Draft is influenced by an athlete's college career, their Combine and Pro Day Scores, their physical makeup, their character, their injury history, and their visits with NFL teams. With all this data, teams then make a selection on who they would like as a member of their team next year.

Since 2001, the Parisi Speed School has had 127 athletes drafted into the NFL. This includes the 10 picks that were selected from our program this weekend. As usual with our program, numerous of our athletes picked definitively enhanced their draft status through their combine and pro day performances. Most notably were Jason Williams (who didnt even go to the Combine, but got draftedin the 3rd round after running the fastest Linebacker 40 in the nation at 4.4), Deon Butler (who ran 4.31 and jumped into the 3rd round) and Lawrence Sidbury (another small school athlete that ran 4.53 at 270 pounds and shocked the combine).  When looking at the list below, you will also notice that many of the schools were small schools.  This is another testament to the results that these athletes achieved.

Below is the list of all the picks this year. They join other Parisi athletes such as Pro Bowlers Leon Washington, Owen Daniels and Osi Umenyora as well as NFL Standouts like Dunta Robinson and D'Qwell Jackson on our list of future stars.

 

 

 

 

 

3rd Round

 

69th pick Jason Williams Western Illinois Dallas Cowboys

91st pick Deon Butler Penn State Seattle Seahawks

 

4th round

 

106th pick Jonathan Luigs Arkansas Cincinnati Bengals

125th pick Lawrence Sidbury Richmond Altanta Falcons

 

5th Round

 

150th pick Jasper Brinkley South Carolina Minnesota Vikings

 

6th Round

 

175th pick Quinten Lawrence McNeese St. Kansas City Chiefs

185th pick Cedric Peerman Virginia Baltimore Ravens

208th pick John Phillips Virginia Dallas Cowboys

 

7th Round

 

212th pick Javarris Williams Tennessee State Kansas City Chiefs

241st pick David Johnson Arkansas State Pittsburgh Steelers

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was another amazing year for the Parisi NFL Combine Training Program. Although we had a smaller group than previous years, we knew this was our opportunity to prove again that we were one of, if not the, top Combine preparation program in the country. This group of 12 athletes that we sent to the show in Indy may not have had a ton of notoriety going in, but the results again had many of their names buzzing on the lips of scouts, coaches and announcers afterward.

Before we show off the tremendous "official" results found at nfl.com for this class, here is a group shot of the athletes that were here preparing for the Combine and their respective pro days.

 

Pictured are:

Back Row L-R: Jonanthan Luigs Arkansas, Chris Pizzotti Harvard, Drew Willy Buffalo, David Johnson Arkansas St, Jasper Brinkley South Carolina, Lawrence Sidbury Richmond, Greg Orton Purdue, John Phillips Virginia.

Front Row L-R Jimmy Mancuso, Martin Rooney, Nick Moore Toledo, Kory Sheets Purdue, Deon Butler Penn St. Javarris Williams Tenn St., Cedric Peerman Virginia

Not pictured Quentin Lawrence McNeese St and Jason Williams W. Illinois

 

And Now for the results:

2009 Highlights

Fastest Defensive Lineman Overall: Lawrence Sidbury

 

Fourth Fastest 40 Overall: Deon Butler Penn St. 4.38

 

Fastest Running Back: Cedric Peerman Virginia 4.45

 

Fastest Defensive End: Lawrence Sidbury Richmond 4.64

 

Fastest Center: Jonathan Luigs Arkansas 5.14

 

Fastest L Drill for Tight Ends: Jonathan Phillips Virginia 6.84

 

Highest Vertical Jump for Center: Jonathan Luigs Arkansas 31”

 

Highest Vertical Jump for Inside Linebackers: Jasper Brinkley South Carolina 35.5”

 

 

Second Highest Vertical for RB: Cedric Peerman Virginia 40 inches

 

Second Best Bench for RB: Cedric Peerman Virginia 27 reps

 

Second Best Bench for Inside Linebackers: Jasper Brinkley South Carolina 26 reps

 

Second Highest Vertical for LBs overall: Jasper Brinkley South Carolina 35.5”

 

 

Third Fastest Running Back: Kory Sheets Purdue 4.47

 

Third Fastest Inside Linebacker: Jasper Brinkley South Carolina 4.72

 

Third Best Bench for WR: Greg Orton Purdue 22 reps

 

Third Fastest 5/10/5 for Tight Ends: Jonathan Phillips Virginia 4.27

 

Third Fastest 60 yard shuttle for WR: Deion Butler Penn State 11.32

 

Third Best 5/10/5 for ILB: Jasper Brinkley South Carolina 4.32

 

Third Best Bench for Inside Linebackers: Jasper Brinkley South Carolina 26 reps

 

Third Fastest 60 yard shuttle for TE: Jonathan Phillips Virginia 11.77

 

 

Fourth Fastest Wide Receiver: Deion Butler Penn State 4.38

 

Fourth Fastest L Drill for ILB: Jasper Brinkley South Carolina 7.03

 

Fourth Farthest Broad Jump for all DL: Lawrence Sidbury Richmond 10’

 

Fourth Highest Bench for WR: Quentin Lawrence McNeese St. 20 reps

 

Fourth Highest Vertical for TE: Jonathan Phillips Virginia 33.5”

 

 

Fourth Farthest Broad Jump for WR: Greg Orton 10’5”

 

Fourth Highest Bench for RB: Javarris Williams Tennessee State 25 reps

 

Fourth Farther Broad Jump for RB: Kory Sheets Purdue 10’1

 

 

5^th Fastest 60 yard shuttle for RB: Kory Sheets Purdue 11.70

 

5^th Highest Vertical for RB: Kory Sheets Purdue 37”

 

 

6^th Farthest Broad Jump for QB: Drew Willy Buffalo 9’1

 

6^th Fastest Tight End: David Johnson Arkansas State 4.73

 

6^th Highest Bench Press for Tight End: David Johnson Arkansas State 21 reps

 

6^th Fastest Running Back: Javarris Williams Tennesee State 4.52

 

6^th Fastest Linebacker Overall: Jasper Brinkley South Carolina 4.72

 

6^th Fastest L Drill for Linebackers overall: Jasper Brinkley South Carolina 7.02

 

6^th Highest Vertical for WR: Greg Orton Purdue 38”

 

 

 

7^th Fastest Quarterback: Drew Willy Buffalo 4.90

 

7^th Highest Vertical for QB: Drew Willy Buffalo 30.5”

 

7^th Fastest 5/10/5 for all Defensive Lineman: Lawrence Sidbury Richmond 4.43

 

7^th Fastest 5/10/5 for TE: David Johnson Arkansas State 4.43

 

10 of 12 of our athletes placed top 4 or higher at their position in one or more events! All 12 placed top 6 or higher in one or more events! Very impressive for only having 12 athletes out of 350! We look forward to next year proving it for the 10th in a row!

 

Martin

 

 

 

 

Here is Martin Rooney, Chris Long, Howie Long and Bill Parisi after a training session at the facility this past week.  Howie was in to observe the training for his son and gave some valuable insights into the training.

Chris has been working out at the facility for the last 4 weeks and we are sure the All American and Defensive Player of the Year is going to impress at the NFL Combine this February.

Here are some more shots of Chris training and we will keep you posted of his progress toward becoming one of, if not the top pick in the 2008 NFL Draft this April.

Working the upper back with the high pulls

Getting ready to blast out a 40 yard dash

Rocking up the six-pack abs for the "look test"