Strength Testing for Baseball Players

Strength Testing for Baseball Players

When it comes to picking the right exercises for testing, it is extremely important to understand how each exercise relates to the specific task of becoming a better baseball player. I can provide you with some suggestions, but ultimately, you must decide which is best for yourself or your athletes (if you are a coach). In this article, we’ll dive into potential movements to test baseball players on.

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Announcing the Launch of Our New Website

Announcing the Launch of Our New Website

At Volt, we are dedicated to enabling everyone to reach their health, fitness, and performance goals. We wanted to take that knowledge and showcase it in a way that highlights our best-in-class training experience, cutting-edge technology, and industry-leading, in-house expertise.

Our goal for the new website was to provide our users with an easy way to learn about Volt’s services and surface our educational content in an intuitive way. From our newly designed About Page, brand new Resources Page, and educational Groups Pages, users can now find a ton of information on our products and content such as webinars, case studies, videos and more.

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Top Volt Upgrades of 2020

Top Volt Upgrades of 2020

Did you know that Volt releases new upgrades to its customers every two weeks?

Now, each of these upgrades isn't always highly visible. Sometimes, "hidden upgrades" might include a tune-up of our code to help the app function faster or a refresh of our security protocol to safeguard customer data. But every-so-often, we get to launch big features that take months to develop and totally change the game for our users! This article is dedicated to highlighting features we released in 2020, that helped our users continue to improve their athleticism, job performance, and physical fitness in a year where staying healthy, going to the gym, and building strength has been more challenging than ever.

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Introducing Circuit Workouts

Introducing Circuit Workouts

We have major news #VoltFamily…meet Circuit Workouts!

As our lives have changed over the past few months, so have our fitness habits. Our At-Home programs have been so popular with athletes training at home, we added more variety and functionality to make them more effective long-term. With our latest release, you’ll experience a totally new way of training that’s hands-free, audio-guided, and fun.

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How to Get a Great At-Home Workout with Volt

How to Get a Great At-Home Workout with Volt

Let’s be real: it’s a strange, scary time in our world right now. And while a workout routine can seem like the least of our worries, if you’re like me, physical activity is an important method for staying healthy and managing anxiety, especially in uncertain times. If you can’t get to the gym (or if your living room has become your gym for the foreseeable future), here are 3 quick tips on how to modify your Volt workouts to fit your equipment—even if your only equipment is your own bodyweight.

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Introducing the New Training Editor

Introducing the New Training Editor

We’re always looking for ways to provide the Volt Family with more opportunities to optimize your training for your unique environment. We understand that sometimes you might need to shorten a training session, to make it work for your team’s schedule. Or maybe you’d like to add an additional mobility-focused session at the end of the training week, to help facilitate active recovery. We hear you—and our new training editor is here to help you make Volt your own like never before.

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3 Tips for your First Volt Workout

If you’re new to the #VoltFamily—get ready! You’re about to see what working out with a personalized, adaptive, and ever-evolving training plan can do for your body (and your fitness goals). The Volt app was designed to deliver the most effective training methodology, through a powerful, patent-pending technology called Smart Sets that adjusts each workout to optimize your results. So before you tap that Start Workout button for the first time, here’s what you need to know.

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The New Volt App is Here

The New Volt App is Here

We’ve been working since 2011 to help athletes train the right way for their sport and performance goals. Now, we’ve taken another step towards that goal with the launch of our new athlete app! This app features a totally redesigned training experience for athletes on Volt teams and organizations—in addition to our patent-pending Smart Sets technology, powered by our training AI—and represents a big step forward in our continued effort to bring better training to more athletes, everywhere.

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Dear Parents and Coaches, Kids Should Strength Train.

Dear Parents and Coaches, Kids Should Strength Train.

I see and hear it all the time: “Is it ok for my (healthy) son or daughter or my team to lift weights?” or “I heard that kids shouldn’t lift weights before they’re done growing.”

Where does this view come from? There are a few fallacies that parents and coaches often subscribe. I’ve addressed these comments and questions countless times, and have developed a downloadable PDF handout that is a helpful resource for coaches to share with parents, or for parents to share with other parents (and sometimes coaches).

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