Velocity-Based Training: Prescribing and Assessing the Effects of Resistance Training (Routledge Research in Strength and Conditioning)

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 sect