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1080 Sprint in baseball: Resisted and overspeed sprinting to train mechanics

Incoming baseball players at Clemson University may wonder for a moment if they showed up to the gym at the wrong time for their strength & conditioning sessions. Rick Franzblau opens the off-season training with resisted sprint load-velocity profiling, which points the way towards regular sprint training throughout the fall. Sprint mechanics have an increasingly […]

ACL rehab with the 1080 Quantum: Overcoming the pitfalls of under-loading

Timid rehabilitation protocols can lead to a “false positive” when it comes time to assess an athlete’s readiness to return-to-play, whether that is on a field or in everyday life. Rehab specialists’ risk aversion in the clinic can backfire by increasing the risk of re-injury upon return-to-play. Low expectations, outdated protocols and an exaggerated sense […]

Overspeed sprinting: Joseph Coyne on progressing and transferring training

Joseph Coyne is the Physical Preparation Coach with the Chinese Athletics Association. He joined the Just Fly Performance podcast for a wide-ranging and detailed discussion on training sprinters and jumpers, going back to his time working with Randy Huntington. Towards the end of the show, the conversation turned to overspeed sprinting. Coyne talked about how […]

1080 Motion Summit: ‘Heavy-sled sprinting people’ and the 120% solution

1080 Motion recently hosted their annual Summit in Gothenburg, Sweden. Attendees from across Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia participated in lectures and demonstrations from coaches and clinicians pushing the limits of sports science with 1080. J-B Morin and Cameron Josse presented on their research and training with resisted sprinting […]

Sports data making up lost ground on the technology that produces it

An emerging consequence of the growth of sports technology over the last 10 years is the messy proliferation of sports data. Every device and every app captures and creates data by the megabyte to describe each stride, rep and heart beat for every athlete using the system. The most successful products – the ones that […]

Three highlights from GAINcast interview with 1080 Motion’s Ola Eriksrud

Ola Eriksrud and Vern Gambetta covered as much ground as they could in 45 minutes on a recent GAINcast interview. Highlights included Eriksrud’s perspectives on hamstring injuries, movement efficiency and the meaningless use of the word “core.” Ola Eriksrud is a professor of biomechanics and 1080 Motion’s director of research and development. Far from being […]

World Series: Comparing Astros’ and Dodgers’ man-games lost, Lost-WAR

Major League Baseball teams defy a simple or clear relationship between player injuries and team performance. The team that has suffered the most injuries since 2010 – the Los Angeles Dodgers – also won the most games in that span. They have been to the National League Champions Series three times, and are now in […]

1080 Sprint research: 20m sprint kinetics for basketball testing and training

The kinetics of a 20-meter sprint may tell a coach more about an athlete’s ability than just their speed. Drs. Jeremy Townsend and Gerald Mangine used the 1080 Sprint to parse a 20-meter sprint and correlate the power, force and velocity to other assessment exercises with collegiate basketball players. Selecting exercises that efficiently and faithfully […]

Non-league football opening to performance staff for injury prevention

Boston Town FC’s first performance specialist, Arun Gray, is a one-man operation for injury prevention, strength and conditioning, rehab and return-to-play. He works under an unusual mix of incentives, maintaining his players’ readiness for the pitch and for their day jobs. Three of the Premier League’s most expensive players are out of the lineup with […]

Eccentric and isometric training to prevent hamstring injuries in rugby

Preventing hamstring injuries is a major consideration for strength and conditioning coaches in field sports. Hamstring injuries have a 12-14% recurrence rate, with the re-injury often requiring more days away from training and competition than the initial trauma. Reducing an athlete’s risk of a hamstring injury is therefore one of the most important investments a […]