Dr. Tim Suchomel: Lifting the Veil on Velocity-Based Training

About this episode

Dr. Tim Suchomel discusses various aspects of velocity-based training and weightlifting techniques.

This week on the Jochum Strength Podcast we get a chance to talk with Dr. Tim Suchomel who is the Sports Science Master’s Program Director at the University of Pittsburg. Dr. Suchomel was one of my professors while at Pitt, an author of his own book on developing muscular strength, and has been involved with countless heavily cited research papers. Throughout the episode he touches on weightlifting variations and derivitives , catching versus not catching Olympic lifts, and eccentric loading practices and protocols. As always thanks for listening and enjoy the episode.

People in this episode

Host: Austin Jochum

Guest: Dr. Tim Suchomel

Topics covered

• velocity-based training
• weightlifting variations
• eccentric loading
• Olympic lifts
• muscular strength

Keywords

• velocity-based training
• weightlifting
• eccentric loading
• Olympic lifts
• muscular strength

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Pittsburg

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