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Barbell Shrugged

True Speed Training

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week on BARBELL SHRUGGED we interview PJ Nestler of Velocity Sports Performance. We talk about speed training and misconceptions around this training adaption. We discuss:

  • What true speed training looks like
  • How to test if your athlete is ready to work on a speed training session
  • How to apply speed training in your program

Transcript

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0:00.0

There is a general misunderstanding of what speed actually is and to me and I've said this

0:05.6

I think actually on this podcast before that speed is the most misunderstood and

0:10.4

misused of all training adaptations and I think by a long shot

0:14.4

What do you mean it's misunderstood?

0:16.0

So what I mean by that is people generally don't understand what true speed training is and

0:20.2

Why that actually matters and so people think they're doing speed

0:23.2

But they're not actually accomplishing those goals and because of that their performance is being limited or they're not reaching their true potential

0:29.0

Because they haven't identified that into the spectrum

0:59.0

What we're gonna board a little shrug a Mike Bletsis then here with Doug Larson and

1:05.6

Andy Galpin and we are up here in Orange County

1:09.5

Visiting PJ Nestler shrink coach trains you have see fighters and today we're gonna be talking about speed and

1:17.6

I think a lot of people in our audience a lot of coaches aren't training speed or

1:24.0

Might be calling something speed that's not quite speed and I think that's why we want to talk about this today

1:30.5

Yeah, to chime in on that there is a general

1:34.6

misunderstanding what speed actually is and to me and I've said this I think actually on this podcast before that speed is the most

1:41.6

Misunderstood and misused of all training adaptations and I think by a long shot

1:47.4

What do you mean it's misunderstood?

1:48.8

So what I mean by that is people generally don't understand what true speed training is

1:53.0

And why that actually matters and so people think they're doing speed

1:56.2

But they're not actually accomplishing those goals and because of that their their performance is being limited or they're not reaching their true potential

2:01.9

Because they haven't identified that into the spectrum so just quickly if we look at human performance if we look at sport if we look at

2:08.6

Health and we look at our abilities over this huge spectrum and if we start on one end with with endurance right the furthest end of the endurance

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