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The swimming pool can be an incredible form of physical activity. It’s really versatile and can practice from rehabilitation training to high-level competitions, and the latter is what we will focus on in this article. Water is a way of weightlessness, so dry work, that is, weight-bearing training in water, is the decisive factor for …

Whether you’re a high-performance athlete or just started training in the gym, we’ve all heard the terms flexibility and mobility at some point. Surely in your first physical education classes at school you will possibly perform simple flexibility tests such as trying to touch the tips of your toes and compete to see who was …

Velocity-based training has become a revolution in recent decades. From the hands of sports science researchers such as Bryan Mann, but also González Badillo, Cronin, Jonathon Weakley, Langfort, Banyard… and a multitude of authors and studies that have endowed velocity-based training, a proven validity and efficacy that greatly outperforms other previous training models such as …

Strength training has often been understood as a really hard workout, with very high loads and a very high effort character, but the evidence has long been gained from those slogans as the “No pain, no gain”,  which have done so much damage to the world of training. This more traditional load percentage-based workout, which …

Following these phases will generate an increase in your  weightlifting capacity and will increase your specific performance in your sport. Probably, if you follow these phases independently you would not achieve the same results. Within a preparation program for any type of sport you will mainly find two phases. The first phase (the general preparation …

“Velocity”, “Velocity Based Training”, and “VBT” are terms popping up more and more in the strength and conditioning field and are being put into practice by coaches and athletes across the globe. But what exactly is it? Where do you begin? Velocity Based Training. What’s That? Of course, an understanding to what Velocity Based Training …

1RM is one of the most important metrics – perhaps even the most important metric – that all strength athletes must monitor. Join me as I pull back the curtain and provide a sneak peek into several novel strategies addressing how to work up to a top single, predict 1RM, and progress 1RM using velocity …

In the previous article we talked about the scientific background of eccentric training and its physiological characteristics. In this article we will take a look at the main physiological adaptations that occur after eccentric training. Contraction type appears to mediate a region-specific hypertrophy; eccentric training tends to induce greater increases in distal muscle size, while …

My name is Jason Tremblay. I’m a 28-year-old Strength & Conditioning professional, Sports Science template designer for the Calgary Flames, and business owner of The Strength Guys Inc., with a bachelor’s degree in Health & Physical Education as well as the Personal Fitness Trainer Certificate from Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. During the first …

Autoregulating Volume With Absolute Velocity Stops: A Solution to Accurately Quantify Proximity to Failure Currently, the most commonly employed method of volume autoregulation is the RPE stop; however, it is limited by its inability to accurately quantify proximity to failure. Join me as I address six different examples of employing absolute velocity stops as a …

The velocity loss literature provides valuable insight on how far from failure the majority of training should occur, but it isn’t as straightforward as one might think. Join me as I address how to integrate the velocity loss data into the proximity to failure data in order to provide the optimal RPE ranges depending on …

So, you are interested in beginning your journey with Vitruve, and implementing Velocity-Based Training. Congratulations! Whether you are an athlete or coach, Velocity-Based training can be a powerful tool to gain valuable data and real-time feedback to inform training and improve performance. “Velocity Based Training? What is that?” I remember the first time I saw …