The Methodology

What is Loaded Movement Training?

Loaded Movement Training brings load and whole-body movement together. Using task-based patterns such as lifting, shifting, tilting, carrying, rotating and dragging, it develops strength, mobility, power and conditioning through the ways the body is designed to move.

Move the load. Move with the load. Build strength through movement.

The Origin

Farm Strong is Real

People who grow up moving varied loads in unpredictable conditions develop a kind of integrated strength that carries into sport and life. Not just bigger muscles — better movement: integrated, durable and adaptable. ViPR PRO® was engineered to bring that style of loading into training, deliberately.

Where it Started

The Science

Athletic movement is integrated

The body does not produce movement through one muscle or biological system at a time. The nervous system coordinates muscles, joints and connective tissues to produce, control and adapt movement. ViPR PRO® creates training opportunities for these systems to work together under load.

Integrated action

Movement requires the whole body to organize around a task. ViPR PRO® connects the nervous, muscular and connective-tissue systems through coordinated, whole-body loading.

Task-based control

Every movement has an objective. Changing the task, position, direction and speed challenges the body to regulate tension, relaxation, timing and coordination.

Force in motion

ViPR PRO® allows the body to produce, absorb, transfer and redirect force while the load — and the person — move through multiple planes.

Proven in practice

For more than 20 years, ViPR® has been refined through use in professional sport, military performance, universities and leading training facilities.
Athlete in a kneeling lunge lifting a ViPR PRO on indoor turf

Load that moves with you

Lift, shift, rotate, carry, drag, accelerate — training the full movement vocabulary under load, in all three planes. Strength that moves the way your body actually moves.

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See it in the training

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Strength

Loaded carries, lifts, and holds.

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Power

Shifts, drives, and movements at speed.

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Mobility

Reaches, tilts, and range-of-motion work.

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Activation

Warm-up patterns that prepare the body to move.

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Stack of ViPR PRO with colored bands on a ViPR PRO Rack in an indoor gym setting on turf flooring.
The Lineup

One tool family. Eight weights.

Every ViPR PRO® is the same design at a different load. Find the weight that fits how you train.

Find your weight

Purpose-built for Loaded Movement Training

Eight weights from 4kg to 32kg. Engineered to perform on the gym floor, turf, sand, snow and in water.

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