Vision: Help 250,000 people improve their performance & wellness by 2030

  • Vela Performance & Wellness is a brand focused on improving your performance and longevity. We specialize in private training & fitness equipment & youth after-school programs geared toward your needs for your health, career, and or sport.

  • The mission is to help and serve people on their journey by leading them into their ideal minds and body while helping others understand their true spirit. What we preach and embody in everything we do is Respect, Reciprocity, Community & Growth.

  • Our approach is holistic, focused on resetting your nervous and muscular system to help take you from a state of stress to allow your body to improve its performance. If you are an adult looking to lose weight, improve your performance, or looking to get your kid to start their fitness journey, Vela prioritizes your goals and needs while enhancing your mind and body.

Vela Fitness

Whether you are a weekend warrior, competitive athlete, or looking to lose weight and feel good, we have training programs that are tailored to your health and wellness goals.

Vela Fitucation

Partnering with Schools and organizations to deliver high-quality, standardized programs bridging fitness with STEM. Looking for a vendor focused on the success of your afterschool program?

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Vela Fitness Equipment

If you’re looking for resistance bands or weight vests, we continue to grow our catalog of fitness products that you can take with you to the gym, on your business trips and vacations.

Vela Tactical

Our brand-new sector focuses on training first responders (Police, Firefighters, EMS) and their units. If you or someone you know is a first responder that would be interested in their unit’s fitness training, have them fill out the form on the link below.

Founder/Ceo

Raphael Velazquez

Raphael is a performance and wellness specialist. With years of training C-level executives, entrepreneurs, and youth in various afterschool and summer programs, Raphael created Vela Performance and Wellness.

Raphael has worked intently to learn methodologies to transform bodies, shed fat, and build lean muscle simultaneously. As a National Strength and Conditioning Specialist Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA CSCS), and Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Certified coach helping people for years to improve their performance physically and mentally is a passion he is able to serve others.

With a B.S. in Exercise Science, having worked at Rockland Peak Performance and Equinox, and many after-school programs for youth fitness, self-defense, and STEM, Vela Performance & Wellness provides training, fitness accessories, and youth education services.

The ethos is to improve every day and help people and teams while never forgetting who he is at the core.

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