Developing Explosive Athletes

In this updated edition of Developing explosive athletes, there has been a tremendous amount of information added, keeping up with the tremendous amount of research that comes out every month in this space.  Some of the topics addressed in this edition (in addition to the previous information) are velocity loss, different technologies for VBT, force-velocity profiling, and individual load-velocity profiling. Velocity loss is a very versatile means for VBT that enables you to determine how much fatigue you want the athlete to accrue.  The amount of fatigue accrued will drive the adaptations.  For instance, if the coach wants to minimize fatigue while still training heavy, a minimal velocity loss (10%) can be implemented.  This will allow a stimulus while not overpowering the system, preventing the resistance training from requiring too much energy for recovery.  If an athlete needs to increase muscle mass appreciably, a larger velocity loss (40%) would be utilized to maximize hypert