You may have noticed the numerous sources we cite at the bottom of each of our blog posts. Peer reviewed research is important to us because it adds evidence and validity to the information we bring you. We want to be a trusted resource for all things velocity based training, and in doing so, we have to keep our findings and summations based in the research. With that in mind, we wanted to deliver a quick research review this week.

The two most common questions for those first learning about velocity based training are: How to program week to week How to overall periodize the training year for your team or athlete As with most sports performance or strength and conditioning, there is no one size fits all approach . It will depend on the sport or type of athlete you are training, the needs analysis of the individual, the competitive season and game schedule, and what the tendencies of the sport coach are with regards to volume and intensity of training sessions.

Introduction The nervous system governs everything we do as humans both in and out of the weight room. In previous posts, we have briefly touched on the concept of autoregulation. In this post, we’ll delve a little deeper into autoregulation in addition to explaining what the nervous system is and how it dictates our daily readiness for both life and competitive sport. The nervous system can be difficult to understand on the cellular level, so we will explain it more generally here as an introduction.

Molly Binetti is the sports performance coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks Women’s Basketball Team. after earning her Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Physiology from Marquette in 2012, Binetti completed her master’s in Kinesiology and Exercise Science at Minnesota in 2013. Binetti began her career at purdue where she served as the Sports Performance Coach for Women’s Tennis, Men’s and Women’s Diving and Cheerleading. She then spent four seasons at Louisville working with Volleyball, Softball and Women’s Tennis and as the Secondary Sports Performance Coach for Women’s Basketball.

Introduction to force velocity profiling Simply put, a force/velocity profile allows you to see what your athletes’ existing force and velocity production capabilities look like. Once graphed, this information roughly translates to how quickly your athlete produces force at various percentages of their RM. Because velocity is a factor here and the RM value will fluctuate given an athlete’s velocities at various loads, you do not need to test for an RM to build a force/velocity profile.

Velocity based training + technology It goes without saying that to implement Velocity Based Training in a weight room and do so accurately, technology is necessary. While velocity based training (VBT) is still a relatively young method of training, more options for VBT devices are coming onto the market each year. As we mentioned in the second post, we believe VBT should be a ubiquitous form of training. We would not have built a company around it if we did not truly believe in it as a training modality.

A quick history lesson Velocity based training is not new. VBT in its recognizable form today has been around since the 1990s. The concept of using velocity in a weight room came about in the mid to late 1980s through Russian sports scientists, Yuri Verkhoshanskii and RA Roman [1-2]. It was then popularized by Louie Simmons at Westside Barbell, and later by Dr. Bryan Mann through his research and publication of his book, Developing Explosive Athletes [10-11]

This post is going to be a crash course in Velocity Based Training (VBT), we are introducing a lot of concepts, skirting the surface of them, and laying the ground work for what is to come. While this post may seem like it bounces around, we promise all will make sense soon. Stay with us as we explore all avenues that lead to and from VBT! An introduction In this current day and age, the addition of an exactitude or a metric of some capacity can make life a lot easier.

Hello and welcome! If you haven’t been to our website before, or even if you have, we wanted to take a moment and introduce ourselves; our vision, our mission, and what we hope you’ll get out of engaging with us now and into the future. Co-Founders from left to right: Jordan, Jacob, Nate We are Perch. A Velocity Based Training company located in Cambridge, MA. Proudly founded by MIT student-athletes.