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Enhance a Competitive Atmosphere

How can athletes return to play safely? Learn how athletes can return to a safe and competitive atmosphere with weight room tech and VBT.

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Return to Play

Increase Frequency of Training

How can coaches monitor training frequency for safe return to play? Keep athletes healthy, strong, and competition ready with VBT.

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Return to Play

Lifting Heavy Weights, Safely

Lifting heavy is necessary, so how do you lift heavy weights safely while developing strength? Learn about safe lifting with VBT.

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Return to Play

LSU Football Strength Coach Tommy Moffitt Recaps First Week of Workouts, How Technology Has Helped in Return

Technology like Perch allows coaches and athletes to determine the speed of movement in real time and adjust the weight or exercise accordingly. "Using the velocity-based system we have, Perch, we knew all of the sets and all of the reps and all of the velocities the guys were doing before we left."

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Return to Baseline Tests

How can we track long-term athlete progress? See how VBT baseline tests and athlete profiles can help you better understand your athletes.

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Return to Play

Velocity Based Training Research Review 5

Join Perch for a velocity based training research review. We will dig into some of the best and most recent VBT research articles!

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Basics of VBT

Precisely Prescribing the Intensity of a Workout

Prescribing the intensity of a workout has never been easier with VBT. Find out how coaches can return athletes to play without the guesswork.

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Return to Play

An Inside Look at the Technology That Will Help LSU Football Return to Peak Physical Condition

Discovering a baseline for each athlete—whether it's an incoming freshman or a returning player—is just another way in which the Perch technology will help LSU in the coming weeks as it attempts to get its players back in shape. What Perch allows is for strength coaches like Moffitt and Jacobs, as well as each individual athlete, to find the...

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Profiling and Assessing Athletes

Profiling and assessing athletes is important for tracking progress and programming training. Learn how VBT is used to build athlete profiles.

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Return to Play

Return to Play from COVID19

How can athletic programs optimize the small training windows they have so that athletes can return to play safely? Find out with Perch.

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Return to Play

Guest Blog Post 4: Brandon Golden Part II

ECU baseball coach Brandon Golden joins Perch again to discuss how ECU uses VBT phases throughout the season to reach strength goals.

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Velocity Based Training Research Review 4

How important is Velocity Based Training to strength development? Join Perch in part four of our research review series on VBT!

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Research Reviews

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Perch Install at the University of Georgia Football

"It just gives us the chance to give athletes autonomy. They come in the weight room and doing it their own. It's amazing how quick they pick up on the technology."

Perch Install at UPenn

"Penn in the Ivy League is the intersection of Peak performance and Peak academic stressors, we need a solution for stressors they receive in both of those environments. Perch allows us to do that by providing data-driven solutions."

Perch Install at UNC Football

"The ability to track guys instantaneously and to analyze their movement patterns through technology in the weight room has been fantastic."

Perch Install at University of Maryland Football

"The equipment, the technology, the Perch and the velocity-based training, I think it's been the single biggest influence on our program. It's given a whole new dynamic to our training because it's a new level of focus for our athletes."

Perch Install at McHenry High School

"What I loved about it there was no tether to have the camera be mounted in the rack where I can focus on the athlete and coaching. It's very user-friendly and so their ability to engage and get feedback has been phenomenal."

Perch Install at Kansas State

"Working with Perch has been a breath of fresh air, from day one, they provided us with Gold Standard customer service."

Perch Install at Hebron Christian Academy

"It's relatively seamless for the athletes. At the same time, I get really accurate objective data. I can literally take models of training and produce evidence that those models of training do or don't work."

Perch Install at Wake Forest University

"The team's been awesome. Got everything installed, all our guys were able to get around them, ask questions, get right into it and hit the ground running day one."