Velocity Assessment

Attached is a short video of pre-winter break testing. We looked at velocity with RFE's with the Safety Squat Bar, along with hang cleans . We have been doing RFE's like this for about 2 months, and I mostly like them. It's a bit of a compromise between loading the spine and being able to continue to progress in load. The players like doing RFE's this way…much quicker set up, little bit different variation. I allow them to hold onto the rack to make up for the balance issue that goes along with using a bar vs. db's…its not perfect, as I'm sure there is some degree of "pull" with the arms, even if subconsciously, however it has also allowed us to look at velocity with RFE's, which we weren't able to do with db's. I do view this a more of an advanced progression, as my freshmen are still using vests/db's for RFE's.