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To Heal and To Correct: Applying the 1080 Quantum in a Clinical Setting

The concept is nothing new. From Ben Franklin’s axiom an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure to Charlie Weingroff’s presentation series “Training = Rehab, Rehab = Training,” problem-solvers have long recognized the need to address the underlying causes of an issue rather than simply reacting after each issue flares up. In a clinical […]

Lessons in Defying Gravity with Coach Caryl Smith Gilbert

The sun is already beginning to bear down at 9am in central Los Angeles, saturating the athletic complex at the University of Southern California with a lazy heaviness further exaggerated by the easygoing pace of a campus in summertime. A few swimmers can be spied gliding down their lanes at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center, but […]

Speed 101 With Dr. Matt Rhea and Indiana University Football

“You didn’t know you registered for this class, did you?” Indoors, outdoors, speed class is in session on the turf with Dr. Matt Rhea, Athletic Performance Coach for the Indiana Hoosiers football team. The curriculum? Get faster. The syllabus? A speed development plan for each player, with programming and goals based on their individualized profiles. […]

Microdosing and In-Season Strength Maintenance with the LA Kings’ Matt Price

Regardless of the unique demands of the sport or league, high performance coaches across the NBA, Premier League, MLB, NHL, and beyond all face a common challenge: the prolonged grind of the regular season threatens to sap the strength and speed gains they worked to achieve in the pre-season. Matt Price, head strength and conditioning […]

1080 Sprint: After-hours work outshines ‘negative results’ at University of Guelph

“Negative results” should be an oxymoron, the sort of throwback phrase you use ironically to get a smug chuckle at the expense of earlier generations. But somehow the idea still has purchase around the scientific community. Not at the University of Guelph’s Human Performance and Health Research Laboratory. Dr. Jamie Burr and HPL graduate student […]

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 […]