Jeremy Levine is a recognized functional performance training expert and founder of Atlantic Performance Training.
He founded Atlantic Performance Training in Virginia Beach, VA as a center of excellence for performance and personal training attracting professional and Olympic athletes, national and world team members, fitness enthusiasts, local athletes and executives for performance training programs and education. He had an amazing journey developing the core foundation of APT's hybrid performance training principles, applications, and techniques. Jeremy has been mentored by some of the top fitness, performance, and sports medicine practitioners while working in the most elite training environments in the world. He has worked closely with major equipment manufacturers Life Fitness/Hammer Strength, Woodway, Versa Climber, Keiser, Concept 2, and LeMond Fitness to develop equipment and bring cutting edge training programs to his clientele. He is a former United States Marine, professional athlete and received a B.S. in Exercise Science with an emphasis on Sports medicine from Old Dominion University. He has over fifteen years of collective experience working with amateur, collegiate, and professional athletes. He was the first strength and conditioning coach to work full time within US Special Operations communities laying the foundation of human performance initiatives and injury prevention programs throughout United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) forces within our nation's most elite military units. He served full time in the position of the Naval Special Warfare (SEAL Team) Community Human Performance Program Advisor and Developer under the direction of Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command from January 1996 thru January 2004. His mission within SEAL teams was to develop and implement a program like none other through the concept of demand specific performance training, education, and injury rate reduction for preservation of the primary weapons platform - the human body. During his tenure with SEAL Teams he accomplished implementing performance training programs throughout the entire Naval Special Warfare Community comprised of: 8 SEAL Teams, Special Boat Teams, Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Training, and Special Warfare Combatant Crewmen (SWCC) Training. In the process with SEAL Teams, Jeremy was able to successfully reduce injuries develop curriculum, courses of instruction, and evaluate injury trends and physical demands jointly throughout Joint Special Operations Commands. Working within these highly motivated organizations are what has led him to developing the most complete and unique assessment and training protocols through incorporating the wide variety of demands in special operations and multiple sports medicine disciplines.
In 1998, Jeremy founded Functional Fitness, the first military human performance consulting firm for providing subject matter expertise and development of human performance programs for a wide variety of military organizations and Government agencies. The foundations of Atlantic Performance Training were researched and developed through Functional Fitness. Functional Fitness was commissioned by the 75th Ranger Regiment at Ft. Banning, GA to research, develop curriculum, and implement human performance programs for the US Army Rangers of the 75th Ranger Regiment. The programs implemented were highly successful and proved extremely effective in multiple combat deployments. Jeremy collaborated in demand analysis of Army Rangers and developed a Ranger Physical Aptitude Test (RPAT). In 2002, the US Marine Corps commissioned Jeremy to develop a combat conditioning program and curriculum to mirror the new Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) called the "Combat Conditioning Specialist" under the direction of the MCMAP program director. The Combat Conditioning program was highly successful and implemented into the Martial Arts Instructor Trainer (MAIT) curriculum and throughout the entire US Marine Corps. Jeremy has developed programs for and continues to work with: US Navy SEALs, US Marine Corps, US Air Force Special Tactics, US Army Special Forces units, US Navy Senior Enlisted Academy, US Navy Dive and Salvage Training Center, US Air Marshals, US Secret Service, and NATO forces abroad. Jeremy has been successful at reducing injury rates, lost duty days, and increasing overall performance levels throughout the communities he advises and works with.
Jeremy is an honored recipient of numerous awards of excellence to include the US Army's prestigious John O. Marsh, Jr award for fitness excellence and multiple military citations from various commands for achievements in performance training and program development excellence. He also believes that everyone does not have to be an elite athlete or Navy SEAL to train like one.
Performance Training Specialist, Nick Luciano, is an Exercise Science graduate from the University of Delaware, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA-CSCS) and a Medical Exercise Specialist (MES) with the American Academy of Health, Fitness and Rehabilitation Professionals. Nick came to Atlantic Performance Training as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist after years of study and practice in human performance. His experience as a multi-sport competitive athlete, semi-pro baseball player, high school baseball coach and US Army Ranger has led his professional interest towards the mental conditioning aspect of training athletes, but takes a more complete approach when training athletes by improving their Biopsychomechanical components contributing to their overall performance.
Atlantic Performance Training will provide the finest training methodologies to advance human performance and wellness by improving Biopsychomechanical™ components of conditioning and biopsychosocial behaviors. Our approach is focused on injury prevention and the optimization of your potential. We take into consideration two contributing factors of injury; (1) the lack of flexibility somewhere in the body and (2) improper kinetic sequencing (movement patterns) with force transfer. We see flexibility as potential. If you lack flexibility, you lack potential to move the way you want to safely and effectively. In addition to the flexibility, our program goals are to mobilize, stabilize, and strengthen the musculoskeletal system. Our process includes movement reinforcement, re-education and proper kinetic sequencing. When you train at APT, you integrate full body strength and flexibility through proper movement patterns to optimize efficiency of movement and injury prevention for your sport or life activities. This is not accomplished using traditional resistance training machines due to the improper use of force reactions and their non-relation to real life activities. For most sports and life demands, the body uses ground force reactions. This is the same way you should train……..the way we train you at APT. At APT we try to maximize your efficiency of using movement and momentum, just as real life demands.