They’re your last line of defense. They can make bad teams good and good teams great. The best ones can take over an entire game by themselves. There is no other athlete quite like the goalkeeper. In soccer, ice hockey, lacrosse, and field hockey, they’re the most important people on the pitch, rink, or field. […]
These are the types of questions that we asked 31 sports teams, as part of our new Upside survey. In this article we summarized the key results of our survey. It was apparent that in the past few weeks because of the COVID-19 crisis many sports teams, many of the teams and leagues that we […]
Eccentric-only training is often used for athletes because it leads to preferential increases in eccentric strength. After a program of eccentric-only training, eccentric 1RM increases more than concentric 1RM. These increases in eccentric-specific strength are valuable because they help improve the ability to decelerate (and therefore change direction more quickly), and they increase the energy […]
6 min read In simplest terms, “markerless tracking” is the ability to track the movement of human beings… 20 min read A Review of the Physical, Societal and Economic Effects of Wearable Devices in Sports ABSTRACT… 2 min read Predictive health checks performed by wrist-wearables that record a person’s biometrics are possible, according to… 5 […]
4 min read Training athlete cognition is the next frontier in mental performance. Cognition involves the way athletes see,… 6 min read In simplest terms, “markerless tracking” is the ability to track the movement of human beings… 2 min read You are teaching a movement, your athlete ‘finds’ the perfect feel-good swing… The athlete knows… 3 […]
Despite our already digitized world, 2020 was certainly the year where everything went virtual. From school and work to our social lives and activities, our plugged-in world has been amplified with new technology to adapt to the puzzles of the pandemic. In a rapid tech revolution rarely seen once in a generation, no industry has […]
6 min read Just like you, your muscles become bored easily. And if you’ve not been hitting your… 4 min read Fitness training balances five elements of good health. Make sure your routine includes aerobic fitness,… 12 min read During my daily wanderings through Twitter and Instagram, while shuttered inside of my house, I… 3 […]
9 min read Major sports leagues have been using data to improve athletic performance, training methods, recovery, and… 10 min read The path to achieving sporting excellence requires more than talent alone. For many athletes, progress… 9 min read Joel Reinhardt is the Assistant Director of Sports Performance at the University of Massachusetts, working… 6 […]
It’s safe to say that, if you want to work on starts and first step quickness, curved treadmills are bad speed tools. Upright running seems fine, but every coach that uses a treadmill needs to see the big picture and ask themselves what they expect to happen differently than running on the ground, specifically the […]
3 min read Coaches and athletes look for every legal edge over their competition. However, you may be… 8 min read Whether your goal is to become a stronger athlete or build bigger muscles, lifting weights not… 7 min read Yes, you can lift heavy things safely Clang, grunt, SLAM! Clang, grunt, SLAM! When you… 3 […]
Hydration is fundamental to many physiological processes in and out of sports. With even a loss of 1% in body mass due to dehydration, you can expect your athletic performance to suffer. Dehydration increases core temperatures, speeds up carbohydrate oxidation, and muscle glycogenolysis. This simply means you are going to go through your energy reserves […]
Since the early 1990’s there have been significant advances in hardware to track and measure human motion. Cameras, electromagnetic trackers, and inertial measurement units to track the position and orientation of the body; EMG sensors to track muscle recruitment; EEG sensors to monitor brainwaves that initiate recruitment; and eye-trackers to identify stimuli that generate movement are […]
this is in large part due to exercise economy. However, this is also seen when somebody has more effectively trained their lactate threshold despite not having the same max oxygen-consuming ability. In other words, having a slightly lower V02max that’s good enough, and a very highly trained LT can allow you to beat a competitor […]
The path to achieving sporting excellence requires more than talent alone. For many athletes, progress through the years of this journey is often nonlinear and subject to a number of unexpected opportunities, bumps in the road, and setbacks. It takes incredible passion, determination, confidence, and resilience to travel this “rocky road to success.” In my last […]
