Will Velocity Based Training Change the Way I Coach Athletes?

Will Velocity Based Training Change the Way I Coach Athletes?

Spencer Arnold and I have been talking about this question for months. Will velocity based training change the way that I coach athletes? It will definitely be a tool that I use from now on. Whether you are a strength and conditioning coach, weightlifting coach, powerlifting coach, or CrossFit coach, velocity based training offers multiple ways to improve your craft. Here’s the way that I am going to implement:

1. I am going to collect data on all of my athletes for at least 10-12 weeks. This will give me all the numbers that I need to put ranges on my guys and gals.

2. I will use VBT to give me ranges of speed at various percentages for all of my athletes, so that I can predict outcomes and alter daily routines. I want to know each of my athlete’s velocities at 60%, 70%, and 80%. If bar speed is up, then I might go big that day. If it’s down, then I might focus on technique.

3. I want to know the speeds that all of my athletes tend to fail, so that I can set limits for each of them. The goal would be to end the majority of misses to avoid injuries and over-training.

4. For my field and court athletes, I want to avoid all misses and injuries.

5. I will use VBT to teach my athletes effort and intent. I will also use it to teach new coaches to speed up their learning curve.

Coach Spencer Arnold and I have been working on this book for some time. I am personally excited, as it is so different from anything that I have ever written. This book will help my readers in so many areas of their coaching and programming. For athletes it will open them up to a whole new way to quantify their training, and understand their strengths and weaknesses.

This is the sixth article that we have written on the subject, so I wanted to put links to all of them in one spot for you guys to understand the concept a little better. Here you go:

1. https://www.mashelite.com/velocity-based-training-for-the-strength-world/

2. https://www.mashelite.com/velocity-based-training-versus-the-dynamic-effort/

3. https://www.mashelite.com/velocity-and-the-rpe-scale/

4. https://www.mashelite.com/can-velocity-based-training-replace-good-coaching/

5. https://www.mashelite.com/maximizing-efficiency-in-the-sport-of-crossfit-by-coach-spencer-arnold/

I hope that this series on velocity based training has given all of you some ideas that might apply to your athletes or your own training. Let us know what questions that you still might have. We will be more than happy to answer.

This week, the new Mash E-Book “Bar Speed” drops. It is written by Coach Travis Mash and Coach Spencer Arnold. This book will help coaches and athletes:

• Define daily intent
• Keep the weight room safer
• Teach effort
• Prevent over-training
• Guarantee that all qualities of strength are being trained

It will provide you full programs for the sports of:

• Weightlifting
• Powerlifting
• CrossFit
• Athletic Performance
• SuperTotal

I even provided a high volume and low volume program for each. This will be unlike any program that I have ever written.

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