In this video, we discuss the strengths and weaknesses of velocity based training.
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00:00 Intro
01:45 Potential Weaknesses of VBT
04:40 Inherent Benefits of VBT
08:00 Summary
This is exactly how I use VBT too... To motivate me to use maximal effort on every rep, and to get a sense of incremental improvements that I otherwise wouldn't be able to detect
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Thank you very much. But could you also do a video series on time crunched training?
Great video, thanks. I’m a Compensatory athletic training guy, training for power, not hypertrophy. I have a VBT Tracker and use .6 m/s for my box squat, but what should be my rate of speed on RDL’s? What about Bench press? How about weighted jump squats? I’d LOVE to see a video about this. Thanks!
Does rep speed always slow down as you approach failure? I’ve measured it on some movements and the reps absolutely did slow, but other times when I wasn’t measuring I’ve felt like I simply hit a sticking point and couldn’t complete the concentric. Then again, I’m guessing it didn’t feel like the rep slowed because I wasn’t paying attention to the rep velocity. I know Mike Israetel has argued about this metric before (kzhead.info/sun/qJmKqbt6hnpmZaM/bejne.htmlsi=4cYCds6C3ZneQlXY at ~9:40), but that certainly seems contrary to how other exercise scientists have defined training to failure.
I use my velocity tracker as a monitoring tool rather than the core of my training. It let me know I had a deadlift setup problem as my 2nd rep was always always faster than my first rep.
Would you suggest that a lifter would have a daily velocity and base it off that? Some coaches do this intuitively. So then is it less about the bar speed and more about the intention to accelerate the bar, as shown by Digby Sale in 1991. If so, then why wouldn’t RPE be better than RIR, unless you are measuring against a target bar speed? Meaning one could still do several reps that don’t meet the expected bar speed. Thanks for the detail you put into your videos, Great content, I think this is an area completely forgotten by other channels. You guys have great integrity.
Did you mention using VBT to find most effective technique? Like micro adjustion some minor detail and monitoring its effect on velocity? If it works, trying to transport to change to 1RM?
Help me apply this to bench 550
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