# Speed Indication for Training - Need a reference

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**Category:** Training Q&A\
**Created:** [January 9, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.freeletics.com/t/speed-indication-for-training-need-a-reference/19859 "2025-01-09T14:43:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![moritz.strobel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@moritz.strobel](https://forum.freeletics.com/u/moritz.strobel)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.freeletics.com/t/speed-indication-for-training-need-a-reference/19859/1 "2025-01-09T14:43:22Z")

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Hey there,  
before every training there is a speed indicator on which speed one should do the exercises.  
When there’s “max speed” should i do the exercise really at my maximum speed keeping a good, clean technique or is the maximum speed what the trainer in the video does?

So i need some kind of reference what each speed indicator means- ideally in reference to the videos.  
Is the video slow speed, medium speed or max speed?

Thanks a lot for any helping hand in advance.

PS: I’m not talking about running trainings, just normal body weight exercises.

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**Author:** ![alexandrealfort](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.freeletics.com/alexandrealfort/32/3924_2.png) [@alexandrealfort](https://forum.freeletics.com/u/alexandrealfort)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.freeletics.com/t/speed-indication-for-training-need-a-reference/19859/2 "2025-01-09T18:23:58Z")

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Hello

Slow rhythm: you take the time to breathe with each repetition and you make the movement perfectly

Normal rhythm: simple rhythm, long and continuous effort (in BPM to exaggerate, not beyond 150 I will say).

Maximum speed: at full speed, quite simply.

But no matter what you look like, the movement must be perfect.

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**Author:** ![moritz.strobel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@moritz.strobel](https://forum.freeletics.com/u/moritz.strobel)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.freeletics.com/t/speed-indication-for-training-need-a-reference/19859/3 "2025-01-09T19:26:55Z")

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Thanks for the quick answer.

So, what is the speed the trainers do in the videos? Slow?

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**Author:** ![melaLetics](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.freeletics.com/melaletics/32/1821_2.png) [@melaLetics](https://forum.freeletics.com/u/melaLetics)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.freeletics.com/t/speed-indication-for-training-need-a-reference/19859/4 "2025-01-10T04:41:56Z")

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> [@moritz.strobel](#):
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> So, what is the speed the trainers do in the videos? Slow?

That’s absolutely not a measurement. If this is theirs slowest speed, it could be yours maximum or vice verse. To be honest, I always go the speed I can do the exercise with perfect technique - no matter what the coach expects the interval to be performed with. Technique first 🤷🏻