1st Edition
Velocity-Based Training Prescribing and Assessing the Effects of Resistance Training
Section I: Introduction to Velocity-based Training (VBT)
1. Fundamentals of Resistance Training
Amador García-Ramos and Guy Gregory Haff
2. What is VBT?
Amador García-Ramos and Jonathon Weakley
3. Why Velocity?
Amador García-Ramos and Pierre Samozino
Section II: Maximizing Velocity during Resistance Training
4. Lifting Velocity – A Critical Programming Variable
Gonzalo Márquez-Sánchez, David Colomer-Poveda, and Amador García-Ramos
5. Velocity-based Augmented Feedback
Jonathon Weakley and Amador García-Ramos
6. Strategies to Produce and Maintain High Velocity Outputs
Daniel Boullosa, Carlos Alix-Fages, Pablo Jiménez-Martínez, and Ivan Jukic
Section III: Prescribing Resistance Training from Velocity
7. Prescription of the Loads
Amador García-Ramos and Ivan Jukic
8. Prescription of the Volume
Ivan Jukic and Amador García-Ramos
9. Programming with VBT
Amador García-Ramos and Ivan Jukic
10. Does VBT Optimize Neuromuscular Adaptations?
Sergio Miras-Moreno, Daniel Marcos-Frutos, and Amador García-Ramos
Section IV: Assessing Neuromuscular Performance from Velocity
11. Key Criteria for Selecting Appropriate Tests
Danica Janicijevic and Amador García-Ramos
12. Testing Maximal and Strength-endurance Performance
Amador García-Ramos and Steve W. Thompson
13. The 2-point Method
Amador García-Ramos
Section V: Use of VBT in Practice
14. Implementing VBT in Practice
Steve W Thompson and Harry F Dorrell
15. Velocity Measuring Devices
Kyle S. Beyer
Biography
Amador García Ramos is a professor of strength & conditioning in the department of education at the University of Granada, Spain
