Force plates are no longer limited to professional and Olympic-level training environments. As access expands, more practitioners are regularly collecting countermovement jump (CMJ) data. But while collecting jumps has become…
Walk into most sport science labs and you’ll see expensive equipment, well-designed testing protocols and robust dashboards that track more metrics than you can reasonably care about. From the outside,…
When I first saw a full annual calendar for a freestyle skiing and snowboarding team in 2018, I was genuinely surprised. It didn’t resemble the annual training models I had…
Sport science is the systematic observation, measurement and analysis of training variables or metrics in an effort to better understand training adaptations and sport demands with the goal of improved…
Objective testing plays a crucial role in guiding decision making, from return to sport status, mesocycle focus and even selection to a team. Designing your testing protocols and batteries goes…