Strength training measuring execution velocity is here to stay. Measuring velocity or jump height improves the quality of your services; it allows you to optimize training loads and measure fatigue. The client perceives greater objectivity and professionalism throughout the process.
In this article, we’ll teach you how to use Spleeft and our athlete management system to take your services to the next level. Whether you are a gym trainer or a physical trainer for a football team, this article is for you. We’ll show you all the steps to start using our tool:
- Setup for strength training: How to place your phone or Apple Watch on the bar to measure velocity.
- Setup for jumps.
- Use our athlete management system to assess many athletes at once efficiently.
- Integrate your VBT device into our platform.
- Make the most out of our analysis tool.
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1. How to place your phone on the bar.
As you know, our app uses inertial sensors to measure velocity. Therefore, it’s crucial to place the device on the bar for it to work. The gadget you need to measure execution velocity with your phone is a simple mobile holder for bicycles:
You can also use Spleeft to measure execution velocity on machines like the leg extension, leg press, lat pulldown… For this, just place the phone in a safe spot on the weight. If the phone moves vertically, it will measure the velocity without problems.
For measuring jump height, you have several options:
1. Simply ask the athlete to hold the phone at their hip height:
2. Place the phone on a non-heavy pole or plastic bar with the same holder mentioned above.
2. Use Apple Watch to assess multiple athletes.
Initially, Spleeft was designed to measure the app from the wrist using Apple Watch. However, since the independent validation study was released, many trainers have shown interest in using our product by placing the Apple Watch on the bar, which is more convenient for assessing multiple athletes at once and provides more reliable results. You can also use our 200 Hz precise mode, which is ideal for athlete assessments. This way, your Apple Watch becomes a device to measure execution velocity, like any other device on the market thanks to our app.
For this, it is important to turn off wrist detection on the Watch App → Passcode. Otherwise, the Apple Watch will constantly lock, and you won’t be able to use it. After that, you can place your Apple Watch on the bar to measure execution velocity. A smartwatch holder for a bicycle will help keep it secure and protected.
For measuring jump height, again, you can place the Apple Watch on a pole, have the athlete hold it in their hand at their hip height, or share it with them on their wrist.
3. Multi-athlete mode
We know that time is precious for you as a coach. But data also increases the value of your services. If you’re a strength coach for a team sport like football, basketball, volleyball, etc., the coach will give you little time to assess the athletes. But measuring their fatigue with a CMJ at the beginning of training is key to monitoring fatigue and progress. If you’re a personal trainer, measuring execution velocity will give an objective touch to your sessions, something not many other trainers offer.
To allow you to assess multiple athletes at once, we’ve created our multi-athlete mode. You can read the full details in the link. In this article, we’ll show you in a video how, with a simple tap, you can switch athletes and quickly assess the jump. At the end, you can quickly check the athlete’s evolution:
For Apple Watch, you need to set up the series (exercise, load, etc.) on the Apple Watch. It can’t be controlled remotely because it’s the only VBT device smart enough and autonomous enough. An important step as a coach: before you hit play, you must have selected the athlete on the iPhone so the data sent from the watch is assigned to them. That way, when a set is finished, the advanced insights shown will be from the athlete. If you forget, don’t worry—you can change the athlete’s name later in the history.
4. Already have a professional device to measure velocity? Manage your data with our platform.
If you’re one of those coaches who have already decided to purchase a specific device for this task, you can still rely on us. However, many of these devices still have basic or expensive software to implement. At Spleeft, we also want to help you get the most out of those devices. In the history section, you can import data from any VBT device using our AI engine. This way, you can use all the features I’ve described below and many others to come.
5. Take your services to the next level.
Now that you’ve collected and organized all the data efficiently, it’s time to use it to differentiate yourself from others. While we’ll create detailed articles on this, here’s a list of VBT applications in your training, ordered by complexity:
- Real-time feedback: Motivate your client to try the fastest possible velocity. Adjust the number of repetitions intelligently with velocity loss thresholds.
- Adjust training based on fatigue: Measure jump height with 4 or 5 CMJs after warm-up. This will show the athlete’s performance that day and allow you to adjust the load by reducing, maintaining, or increasing it based on their condition.
- Track performance improvement: If the fastest velocity against a load improves over time, it means your training plan is a success.
- Individualize loads: Create periodic perfiles de velocidad de carga to know which loads to use and set goals.
- Plan training based on velocity: Set velocity goals for finer adjustments. Change: do leg extension with 80 kg to: use the load you can maintain above 0.7 m/s.
Let us know which of these applications you would like us to dive deeper into.
Iván de Lucas Rogero
Aplicación de rendimiento físico y CEO de MSC
Dedicado a mejorar el rendimiento atlético y el entrenamiento ciclista, combinando ciencia y tecnología para impulsar resultados.
