Subject: When to add weight?

Knowing how heavy to lift and when to add more weight is a science and an art. To learn a nearly foolproof tactic you need to go back to the USSR six decades ago.

Nikolay Louchkin was the Soviet Union weightlifting champion in the 1930s, later a distinguished coach and scientist. Among the training methods listed in his classic 1962 textbook was “increasing the weight at a given speed.” This—or his earlier work—had to be the birth of what is known today in the West as “velocity based training.”
Nikolay Louchkin's Velocity Based Training
VBT is fashionable—but not faddish. Whether aided by an accelerometer, a videocamera, or a stopwatch or relying only on the coach’s eye and the athlete’s feeling, is a great choice for many athletes. It mandates a “stop sign” and prevents the athlete from overdoing it.
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Contemporary Russian powerlifting coaches recommend that you film yourself lifting different % 1RM. Note at what weight the bar starts slows down—this will be your main training weight. In Soviet Olympic weightlifting methodology, the “main weight” is one that is used more than any other.

At some point this weight will start moving just as fast as the ones below it. Repeat the bar speed test, find your new, heavier, main weight, and start over…
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