It’s a new year, once again, and for those who have put down ambitious fitness goals as a major-to-do of their year, new workout strategies might be afoot. Some of those should be the best workouts to lose weight. While much can be gained from distance runs or lifting weights, finding a good cardio routine […]
Fatigue is one of the most poorly understood concepts in the fitness industry. There is a pervasive tendency to consider fatigue as a sensation. In fact, fatigue is merely a reduction in the ability of muscles to exert force during exercise. It is accompanied by feelings of effort and discomfort, but the fatigue itself is […]
Predictive health checks performed by wrist-wearables that record a person’s biometrics are possible, according to a small study. They are also a capability that the U.S. Homeland Security Department wants to explore. JAMA, the medical journal, has reported on a 49-subject study indicating that a wearable device the same as or similar to common a fitness […]
4 min read To shed pounds, you need to raise your heart rate and up the intensity. Here’s… 3 min read They’re your last line of defense. They can make bad teams good and good teams… 3 min read Athletes make mental mistakes. Hitters swing at bad pitches. Gymnasts over rotate on tumbling passes…. 2 […]
AI and Machine Learning(AI/ML) have gotten much attention in the last 5 years. AI and Convoluted Neural Networks (CNN) seem well suited for extracting finer detail from video images. The process is basically one of taking a set of inputs and mapping them to a set of outputs. But unlike a direct mapping that might occur with linear […]
Happy smiling mature man and old woman cycling on a swimming bike in swimming pool. Happy and healthy senior people enjoying swimming with young woman. Fitness class doing aqua aerobics on exercise bikes in a swimming pool. Photo Credit: iStock
5 min read Introduction Since the early 1990’s there have been significant advances in hardware to track and… 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 […]
Coaches and athletes look for every legal edge over their competition. However, you may be putting too much emphasis on new innovations. Sleep is a foundation of human performance. It has the potential to fuel or wreck an athlete’s performance. It may not be flashy, but your athletes may not be getting the sleep they […]
The Sports Biometrics Conference is about strength and performance training, sports science and the research key organizations have been conducting about this discipline. Neuroscience is a key element as well. Sponsor or attend? Attending the conference gives you two days of excellent education and networking opportunities to meet like-minded professionals from across the globe. There […]
After spending a lifetime in the sport, in 2015 I realized I had many questions about swimming for which very few answers were available. How do you explain feel for the water to a swimmer who doesn’t already have it? What is the difference between a distance swimmer and a sprinter? Which is more important—pulling or kicking? […]
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 […]