[Velocity Based Training] How to Use Velocity Based Training for Strength, Speed, and Performance w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Mash and Dan Garner Barbell Shrugged #636
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- Louie Simmons death and impact on the strength world
- How to use velocity based training for hypertrophy
- How to use velocity based training for max strength and speed
- How to use velocity based training for functional fitness athletes
- What lifts should and shouldn't use velocity
Connect with our guests:
Coach Travis Mash on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shred family, this week on Barbar Al Shred, we are talking velocity-based training with the |
| 0:06.1 | two-time national champion, coach of the national champion, the Noir-Rine University Weightlifting |
| 0:14.7 | team. |
| 0:15.7 | Yeah, that's our boy Travis Mash. |
| 0:17.9 | Travis is wrapping up his PhD here in the next couple months. |
| 0:21.7 | One of the big components of the athlete monitoring PhD that he's doing is, uh, |
| 0:29.9 | velocity-based training and how it's impacted, uh, his, not only his team, but his own career |
| 0:37.5 | and how he incorporates that into the amount of wear and tear his athletes are going, depending |
| 0:44.0 | on what phase of training they're in right now. |
| 0:47.0 | And because Louis Simmons died recently, one of the very first people to discuss velocity-based |
| 0:53.3 | training, whether it was using bands, chains, um, they had a Tendo unit which they were |
| 0:58.0 | using back in the day before technology really kicked off in this, um, but very cool that |
| 1:04.1 | it was at West Side and that was one of the first places that Travis would be able to |
| 1:07.2 | see it when he was training at West Side and, uh, be friending Louis, um, and having him |
| 1:12.3 | as a mentor throughout his life. |
| 1:15.2 | Um, I'm excited to do this. |
| 1:17.1 | We spent some time talking about Louis Simmons at the beginning and his impact on strength |
| 1:20.4 | world and each of us, um, and, uh, really good in-depth discussion on velocity-based training. |
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