Hey team, Is anyone currently regularly using VBT prescriptions with remote clients via an app such as METRICvbt or Qwik? I use enode in my gym regularly with clients and want to expand the systems to more remote clients and I am curious if anyone else has followed suit. Personally i'd most likely just take the hit for the subscription cost and allow clients access to the "team". My questions are: Does anyone here regularly use software only based VBT tools. (which one) If yes do your clients utilise them and do you feel they see it as a value add or pain in the ass What use cases do you use VBT regularly or irregularly with your clients

For those that are implementing conjugate like dynamic effort methods in training, how much attention do you pay to the accuracy of bar speed on dynamic effort day? I find it very hard for myself and some of my athletes to hit the 0.8 meters per second with 50% of 1RM without any accommodated resistance. Add bands or chains into the mix, and obviously, bar speed would slow down even more. Previously, I've used the accommodated resistance and dynamic effort work with success and never actually measured bar speed, but I would definitely be working a lot slower than 0.8 . My initial thoughts is paying that much attention to the velocity of the bar is likely majoring in the minors, and attention should probably be applied to velocity or speed loss over the course of the sets, or speed relative to the individual athlete's norm. But wondering if anyone has more experience with this and are we possibly missing the mark by not achieving a certain bar speed.

Density Progressions: The Programming Variable Coaches Often Miss Most coaches spend a lot of time thinking about the relationship between volume and intensity. This makes sense because it is easy to quantify: - How much work is being done? - How heavy is it? - What paces are they holding?  But one variable that often gets overlooked is density. Density simply refers to how compressed the work is. It’s the relationship between how much work is being done and how quickly it’s being performed. Two workouts can have identical volume and similar intensity, but create completely different physiological responses depending on how dense the work is. Example: Same Volume, Very Different Density Let’s take a simple example. Workout A 200 wall balls for time Workout B 10 wall balls every minute on the minute for 20 minutes In both cases, the athlete is doing 200 wall balls. But the experience and the physiological response are completely different. In the “for time” version, the work is much more dense. Fatigue accumulates continuously. Metabolites build up. Intramuscular pressure increases. Perfusion drops. Tension under fatigue increases as the athlete tries to maintain movement speed. All of this creates a much more stressful internal physiological environment. You get: • More accumulated fatigue • Less metabolite clearance • More ischemia inside the working muscles • More tension being produced while the muscle is already fatigued That combination dramatically increases the amount of muscular damage and soreness that athletes experience. In the EMOM version, every minute includes a built-in rest period. That rest allows partial clearance of metabolites, restoration of blood flow, and recovery of force production. The volume is the same, but the density is much lower, so the physiological cost is very different. Why Density Matters in CrossFit Density becomes even more important when we consider the nature of the sport. CrossFit workouts tend to be very dense especially formats like:

I'm curious as to what methods or intentions people have used to help athletes improve their machine paces in metcons. Assuming the athlete can go long and sustain on a machine, and can sprint on a machine, and can do intervals on a machine, how do you then help them translate those paces to mixed fatigue work? My idea is that the required machine paces to be competitive in the sport are not unknown variables. We can watch back footage of echo bike repeat workouts, row cal workouts etc and see the speeds of athletes getting on and off the machine. If a workout has hang power snatch, toes to bar, echo bike, and the athlete is wonderful with their transitions and sets for the hang power snatch and toes to bar, shouldn't you just prescribe the bike pace? So in your notes you would dictate bike pace to be 75rpm minimum, get to pace within 6 seconds of starting the bike. What about for someone that can handle the pace, but not for the full volume? I did a workout the other day that involved intervals of row calorie, handstand walk, and power cleans. I need to improve my row speed in metcon style like that, so I dropped the calories from 20 to 15, but I my intention was that I had to row those 15 calories above 1400 cal/hr. I will plan to be able to eat more and more volume at a higher pace like this over time, which will be how I know that I am improving my fitness here. What do you all think?

A few weeks ago I did a podcast on BFR with my good friend Ed Haynes. We covered a lot of the main protocols that I use with my athletes - if you’re interested you can check it out here. https://youtu.be/6cpM8CVwHlQ?si=FOScsQ413OUfWIOJ