Velocity based training for performance & autoregulatory methods

A wide-ranging conversation on velocity-based training for performance, autoregulatory methods, and where the VBT space is heading. Covers practical implementation and the research backbone behind the methodology.

The autoregulation thread is the heart of this episode. Bar speed gives you an objective read on two things a percentage-based program can’t see: how ready an athlete is today, and how much fatigue a set actually generated. Warm-up velocities at a known load tell you whether today is a push day or a maintain day before the working sets start. Velocity loss within a set tells you when the quality of work has dropped enough to stop. Between those two signals, most of the guesswork disappears from load prescription.

We also spend time on the state of the VBT space itself — what the research actually supports, where marketing has run ahead of the evidence, and what it takes to move velocity tracking from a sports-science lab tool to something coaches use on a normal gym floor.

For the written version of these ideas, see readiness and autoregulation with VBT and the velocity loss guide.