From the Ground Up Athletic Performance Podcast Jacob Tober of Metric VBT Episode 66 "VBT and how to make the most out of utilizing VBT within your program"
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On this weeks episode, I sat down with Jacob Tober co founder and head of research for Metric VBT. Metric VBT is a velocity based training app that uses the power of your IOS device to capture velocity metrics and provide users with immediate feedback on performance and overall readiness. Jacob does an excellent job of providing excellent content focusing on how to implement VBT into training processes. We start our conversation by sharing how Jacob has simplified the traditional velocity zones to cut through the semantics and get directly to the point. Jacob shares the characteristics of each zone and shares how exercise selection can help increase the effectiveness of athletes working around a certain zone for a given session. Jacob shares how metrics are variable between exercises and athletes, therefore, gathering data to validate an athletes outputs is important for validating and guiding exercise prescription for each athlete.
Jacob shares how to gather data to create a load/ velocity profile as well as a load/power profile. Jacob discusses the differences between these two profiles and when it's beneficial to employ each of these profiles. Jacob also again shares how different exercises may be more adaptable for the velocity or power profile. This conversation is less about what you can do and more about what you should do to get the most out of your VBT metrics within training. Jacob shares how gathering a wide spectrum of power outputs can be beneficial because it builds a broader picture of the type of athlete you are dealing with. Are they more strength based or more elastic in nature? You can then use this to help guide programming options and this can be a powerful tool to help build in methods that will help keep athletes healthy, fresh, and less likely to get injured. Many athletes are in competition for the bulk of the year, therefore, finding manners to keep athletes at peak performance is of the upmost importance. Jacob shares how to keep athletes performing at a high level and how to keep power output high within in season training. Jacob also talks about how to properly utilize VBT to help assess athlete readiness and how cutoffs may vary between different times and sessions. Overall this is a really great dive into VBT and the potential that it provides to optimize training solutions for athletes of all sporting levels. Check the links below for my weekly write up, as well as Jacob's awesome resources where he provides even more detailed breakdowns of different topics closely related to VBT.