If you use a force plate for athlete monitoring, you are almost certainly comparing your athletes against a normative database. The platform you use probably does this automatically — a percentile appears next to each metric, and you use it to decide whether an athlete’s result is good, average, or below par. This is a…
Most strength testing batteries tell you how much force an athlete can produce concentrically or isometrically. They tell you very little about eccentric strength, which is arguably the capacity most relevant to deceleration, direction change, and injury resilience. Here is how to close that gap using data you are likely already collecting. The Strength Quality…
A practitioner-focused look at athlete profiling and the question of what actually constitutes “good” performance If you have worked with athletes for long enough, we can probably agree on one thing: athlete performance testing gives us a lot of useful data. The challenge is not data availability. It is using that data to make applied…
Athlete performance testing has never been more sophisticated. Coaches and sport scientists can now quantify dozens of neuromuscular metrics from a single testing session. While this has dramatically expanded what we can measure, it has also shifted the primary challenge from data collection to data interpretation. The critical question is no longer what we can measure, but how testing should inform…