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Superman and the analytics-driven sports organization: Dr. Stephen Shea

Visit the website for any management consultancy and you’ll quickly find their white paper on how to transform your organization into an “analytics-driven organization.” That phrase came to mind when I saw a Twitter thread by Dr. Stephen Shea. The audience for those white papers – the prospective “analytics-driven organizations” – are already warm to […]

Ato Boldon’s turn to coaching moves him outside the lanes of track & field

Ato Boldon did not think much about throwing away the old-school red diary he used as a training log. With 10 senior-level international medals in his house, he was not lacking mementoes from his sprinting days. Years later, he realized binning his logs was the best thing he could have done for the third leg […]

Malmö Redhawks: “Learn and try” season on 1080 Syncro and 1080 Sprint

Not many people would have blamed Freddie Sjogren for waiting. His bosses in the front office may have wondered when they would see some use out of their newest equipment purchase. But any number of simple, reasonable explanations and a lot of conventional wisdom and outside opinions would have reassured them. Three weeks before opening […]

Demystifying assisted sprinting: Four perspectives with the 1080 Sprint

Even the most mathematically rigorous and technologically savvy coach has to concede a certain amount of defeat when it comes to assisted sprinting. You can have the most precise timing gates and sync them up with your video system for flying 40’s. You can calculate the coefficient of friction for your turf, factoring in humidity […]

Robert Lindstedt plays tennis’ shift towards age, physicality to his advantage

Young tennis players embarking on their professional careers in the late 1990s and early 2000s had little reason to think time was on their side. Advances in sports science now give the advantage to veterans like Robert Lindstedt, who is looking ahead to his third decade on the ATP Tour. When a 21-year old Robert […]

Basketball rehab with 1080 Quantum: Data triumphs over timelines

Sports science marches steadily towards increasing individualization and responsive, data-driven decision-making. Meanwhile, key milestones in the return-to-play process remain rigidly formulaic. Time – not function – is still the major consideration for medical approval to return to play. Chris Stackpole joined the New Jersey Devils as Head Physical Therapist / Sports Science Coordinator last summer. […]

Five highlights from HMMR Podcast with Arno Galmarini

Arno Galmarini of Elite Training joined Martin Bingisser for a very Swiss episode of the HMMR Podcast. Arno and Martin (and Nick) chatted about breaking down the remaining walls between training and testing, the use of technology and building athlete buy-in for sport-specific but still unconventional training methods. Arno Galmarini is the founder of Elite […]

1080 Quantum for golf swing training: Ben Shear on the right time for S&C

As strength and power training becomes a staple of conditioning for professional golfers, daily life precludes many recreational golfers from adding strength and power training to their game. Simply reaching the point where strength and power training becomes a valuable option requires a long-term commitment. For golf fitness coach Ben Shear, strength and power training […]

Loyola University track and field: Excuses are not in the budget

On Friday mornings throughout the winter, Coach Bob Thurnhoffer is one of the first people inside Loyola University’s Gentile Arena. He and assistant coach John DeGrave are there early setting up, ensuring everything is ready to go when the student-athletes arrive for warm-ups. By the time the arena opens its doors to 4,500 fans ahead […]

1080 Sprint: Helping football combine testing transfer to the game

“We focus on one thing, and people know what that is as soon as they see the name on the door,” Matt Neel says in the last quiet hour before the after-school rush hits Xceleration Sports Performance Labs. For anyone not able to visit Neel in the hill country suburbs west of Austin, Texas, his […]