How to perform jump tests with Vmaxpro

2. February 2021 | Knowledge

Jumps are a common method to evaluate the readiness of a lot of athletes in a relatively short time, safely, using tools to measure their performance. However, most hard- and software solutions fail in everyday training because either the test setup or the evaluation...

How to handle quarantine strength training with Vmaxpro

19. March 2020 | Knowledge, Newsletter

Competitive sports is one of the areas of public life that has been most affected by the Coronavirus. Many leagues and competitions have been postponed, sometimes indefinitely. For many athletes this is a difficult time with a lot of uncertainty and question marks....

How do our training recommendations work

14. October 2019 | General, Newsletter

Effec­tive strength training is based on the optimal inter­ac­tion of different stress norma­tives. These are the load used, the number of repe­ti­tions per set, the pause times between sets and the total number of repe­ti­tions. The aim is always to create a...

How to determine a velocity profile and the 1RM

14. October 2019 | Knowledge

We were often asked how Vmaxpro builds up a velocity profile, how the 1 rep maximum (1RM) is determined and how exactly the whole thing actually works in end. To be honest, even we as developers cannot predict or explain the exact paths to the result. Today, many...

Perfection in technique training – The optimal barbell trajectory during the Snatch

23. May 2019 | Knowledge

As a disci­pline of Olympic weightlifting, snatching is a tech­ni­cally enor­mously demanding move­ment sequence. Small mistakes are often over­looked, but they lead to devi­a­tions from the ideal move­ment sequence. Espe­cially in Olympic weightlifting it is...