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Revolutionizing Strength Training: Estimate Your 1RM with Precision Using Velocity

by Pablo VegaGeneral 17/03/202415/03/20244 Comments

For years, athletes and fitness enthusiasts have aimed to pinpoint their One Repetition Maximum (1RM) – the ultimate measure of strength. Traditionally, this involved pushing oneself to the limit, performing an exercise with the maximum weight possible for a single repetition. While effective, this method comes with its drawbacks, including the risk of injury and …

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Do you get 100% out of your Apple Watch? Do it with Spleeft

by Pablo VegaGeneral 08/03/202409/03/2024One Comment

The Apple Watch already measures the missing data to be the most complete device on the market in all areas. It is important that you know everything that this device can bring you in your day to day and better yet, how to take advantage of it 100% through the Fitness App that we discover …

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Building the new Spleeft: Track Barbell Velocity with your Apple Watch

by Iván de Lucas RogeroGeneral 12/01/202416/09/2024No Comments

Discover how our small project’s journey to create the first Apple Watch app to measure barbell velocity and jump height has been. It’s been two years and four months since we launched the first version of Spleeft for Android on September 13, 2021. Shortly thereafter, in February 2022, we made the leap to iOS. This …

Autoregulate Your Resistance Training with Z-Scores

by Iván de Lucas RogeroGeneral 03/11/202216/09/2024No Comments

In previous publications, we’ve mentioned that the daily condition of the athlete varies depending on a multitude of factors. Your resistance training is one of them. The theory is all very well, but how can we know approximately how much our performance has varied today? There are several ways. Spleeft uses Z-Scores because of their …

Automatic Load-Velocity Profile and 1RM Estimation with Spleeft

by Iván de Lucas RogeroGeneral 03/11/202216/09/2024One Comment

Learn more about autoregulation in our post about Z-Scores in VBT. Estimating the maximum repetition in an exercise was one of the first options provided by the VBT. It’s also one of the most used nowadayss. It helps us to know the most basic when training in the gym: the weight to put on the …

Manage your Long-Term Performance with Velocity Based Training

by Iván de Lucas RogeroGeneral 01/11/202208/03/2024One Comment

Velocity-based training is not just lifting fast. It shows you if your training are going as planned. Let’s deep dive! INTRODUCTION Velocity-based resistance training offers us a multitude of advantages to improve our resistance training. The most well-known advantages are those related to real-time feedback and velocity loss control. However, controlling barbell velocity can also …

Spleeft: Velocity Based Training in your pocket

by Iván de Lucas RogeroGeneral 16/05/202224/09/2022No Comments

When I was a child, I remember watching “futurist” movies, characters using super technologies in their daily life, some far from reality yet (or not) like holograms, and others that little by little are consolidated in our daily life, like intelligent gadgets able to expand the info or to answer our questions. At that moment …

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