Training for Power with Velocity Based Training w/Doug Larson, Travis Mash & Dr. Mike Lane #846
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Mash, and Dr. Mike Lane explain why velocity-based training is a powerful tool for athletes who want to perform better without constantly feeling beat up. Instead of relying on grinders and fatigue-heavy sessions, they show how training with speed and intent can help athletes become more explosive, more efficient, and more prepared for sport. The big picture benefit is simple: you can build strength and power in a way that carries over to sprinting, jumping, changing direction, and competing by focusing on maximizing speed of contraction on every rep.
They also make the case that velocity-based training is not just for elite lifters or sports scientists. Used well, it can help athletes make progress with less unnecessary soreness, joint stress, and wasted volume. The practical value is huge: better power production, better recovery management, and a useful and enjoyable way to match training to the real demands of sport. For athletes, that means a better chance of getting faster, stronger, and more powerful over time. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family. Doug Larson here and this week on Barb Bell Shrug we're diving into one of our |
| 0:04.0 | favorite topics which is velocity based training. I had my first experience with |
| 0:08.4 | velocity based training back in 2005. I was still playing college football and I did a 12-week |
| 0:12.7 | block in the off season and smashed all of my PRs on every barbell movement from all my |
| 0:17.8 | cleans, snatches, squats, bench press, press deadlifts all of it some of |
| 0:22.8 | them I beat I broke those PRs more than once so highly effective training and |
| 0:27.5 | was perfect for college football given I was trying to be fast and explosive not |
| 0:32.1 | just strong but also very powerful so if you've never done this type of training |
| 0:36.5 | it also is very enjoyable in the sense |
| 0:39.8 | that it's not that difficult compared to other types of training you're not thrown up in a trash |
| 0:43.7 | can you're not grinding through reps you're moving fast the whole time and then you're resting |
| 0:48.2 | until you're fully recovered so you can move fast again so in my opinion it's fun training |
| 0:52.8 | that's easy to recover from and is phenomenally |
| 0:55.1 | effective. So it's well we're trying. If you've never tried it before, it's a lot of fun. |
| 0:59.8 | If you are interested in any of that, this show is a great show to listen to. Enjoy the show. |
| 1:05.9 | Welcome to Barbell Strug. I'm Doug Larson here with coach Travis Mash and Dr. Mike Lane. |
| 1:10.7 | We're talking again today about velocity-based training, which we continue to talk more and more and more about. It seems like the kind of the rest of the world is really getting more and more on board with all the benefits thereof. But Mike Lane, I'm kicking over to you first. You were just doing some work up at the center college with a guy who was recently on the show and you had some things |
| 1:29.1 | you wanted to share here so I'm going to kick to you first yeah no it was a great presentation |
| 1:33.5 | and one of the presentations was all about the implementation of velocity based training and this |
| 1:39.4 | was towards high school collegiate private industry strength conditioning coaches so it was really applicable |
| 1:45.0 | there were a couple things that were just a little bit off and that's okay like he did a really good |
| 1:49.6 | job and when we think about velocity-based training it makes sense I want to move the object as |
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