The Ultimate Guide to VBT for High Schools

Описание: "The other day I read a post on Twitter that inspired me to create the Ultimate Guide to Velocity Based Training i.e. VBT for High Schools. The tweet was from a well-known Strength Coach referring to velocity-based training (VBT) as an advanced form of training that should be reserved for elite athletes only and only after exhausting every basic method prior to beginning. That was a major lightbulb moment for me as I realized that a lot of people simply don’t understand the concept of VBT. VBT isn’t some sort of method like maximum effort or dynamic effort made popular by the late Louie Simmons founder of Westside Barbell Club. However, I believe that’s the birthplace of the confusion at no fault of Louie Simmons.

Louie was one of the first coaches to inform the world about the benefits of VBT. However, he mainly referred to VBT in reference to his infamous dynamic effort method. Before I start getting hate messages, I realize that plenty of Strength Coaches and sport scientists wrote and lectured about the usefulness of VBT. However, Louie was simply turning out content faster than anyone else, and Westside Barbell was quickly becoming the icon it is today. The fact is more people were listening to Louie. Therefore, he’s one of the people that brought VBT to the world. Dr. Bryan Mann credits Louie for inspiring him to do the research that so many of us enjoy reading and applying to our athletes.

Louie referred to using mean velocity mainly when discussing the dynamic effort. I’ve heard him reference 0.75m/s to 1.0m/s for the optimal velocity range when applying dynamic effort. Of course, he has talked about applying speed-strength ranges between 1m/s and 1.3m/s, but he most frequently advised the strength-speed range (0.75m/s to 1.0m/s). After hearing him refer to this strength-speed range countless times over the past three decades, I admit that I too had come to equate VBT with the dynamic effort method.

When I first started hearing other coaches and Sports Scientists talking about VBT, all the many benefits, I assumed that it was just another concept borrowed from Louie Simmons. I probably rolled my eyes and mumbled to myself something along the lines of yeah, yeah, I’ve known about the Dynamic Effort Method before you were born. I remember several Strength Coaches writing articles and recording podcasts scolding the Coaches and Scientists that were putting out content about VBT as if they invented the “dynamic effort method”. Today I hope to once and for all bust that myth. In this article, we will discuss:

What Velocity-Based Training Isn't
What is Velocity Based Training?
Top ways to use VBT for high school athletes
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