diff --git a/src/one-body-sample.cc b/src/one-body-sample.cc
index 3fc2e190d36e271884d73d98004239b69444f37c..6aecb38021865f32dcd93738b71bc409b010b65a 100644
--- a/src/one-body-sample.cc
+++ b/src/one-body-sample.cc
@@ -451,13 +451,14 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         }
       }
 
+      alpha_old = alpha;
+
       if (parset.get<bool>("printFrictionalVelocity")) {
         for (size_t i = 0; i < frictionalNodes.size(); ++i)
           if (frictionalNodes[i][0])
             std::cout << ud[i][0] << " ";
         std::cout << std::endl;
       }
-      alpha_old = alpha;
 
       // Compute von Mises stress and write everything to a file
       if (parset.get<bool>("writeVTK")) {