VELOCITY-BASED TRAINING. PRESCRIBING AND ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF RESISTANCE TRAINING

• Section I: Introduction to Velocity-based Training (VBT)
1. Fundamentals of Resistance Training
2. What is VBT?
3. Why Velocity?
• Section II: Maximizing Velocity during Resistance Training
4. Lifting Velocity – A Critical Programming Variable
5. Velocity-based Augmented Feedback
6. Strategies to Produce and Maintain High Velocity Outputs
• Section III: Prescribing Resistance Training from Velocity
7. Prescription of the Loads
8. Prescription of the Volume
9. Programming with VBT
10. Does VBT Optimize Neuromuscular Adaptations?
• Section IV: Assessing Neuromuscular Performance from Velocity
11. Key Criteria for Selecting Appropriate Tests
12. Testing Maximal and Strength-endurance Performance
13. The 2-point Method
• Section V: Use of VBT in Practice
14. Implementing VBT in Practice
15. Velocity Measuring Devices

Velocity-based training (VBT) is a contemporary method of resistance training (RT) that has become popular among sport scientists and practitioners due to the proliferation of devices that allow accurate real-time monitoring of movement velocity during RT exercises. The main input of VBT is the lifting velocity of repetitions performed with maximal intent (i.e., executed as fast as possible). Barbell's velocity monitoring is known to have important applications for (I) enhancing training quality, (II) prescribing RT intensities and volumes, and (III) assessing day-to-day physical readiness and training-induced neuromuscular adaptations. Velocity Based Training looks to describe how movement velocity can be used as a supplement to or replacement for more traditional methods commonly used to prescribe RT and assess its effects on neuromuscular function This new volume thoroughly examines the scientific literature related to VBT. Consisting of 15 chapters that have been distributed in 5 sections covering the main topics of VBT. In each section the reader is presented with (I) the importance of the topic, (II) the investigations that have contributed to the development of the topic, (III) guidelines for applying the scientific knowledge in practice, and (IV) scientific gaps that need to be addressed for a more accurate implementation of VBT. The key audience for this book are academic researchers and postgraduate students interested in the field of strength training and conditioning. Practitioners or emerging practitioners in the field of sport and kinesiology could also benefit from this book as it provides research-based guidelines that facilitate the implementation of individualized VBT programs in real-world training settings.

Author
Amador García Ramos is a professor of strength & conditioning in the department of education at the University of Granada, Spain