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Seamlessly integrate testing into training.
‘Testing Days’ are time-consuming and often infrequent due to logistical challenges. Collect consistent, reliable data efficiently, ensuring more reliable and valid data sets.
Barriers to testing
Screening or profiling is often completed 2-3 times per year. Showcasing improvements through snapshot tests can be unreliable due to variables like fatigue, testing time, and sleep quality. These factors can vary between tests, leading to inaccurate results.
Infrequency of testing.
Lack of suitable testing equipment that integrates directly into your training flow.
Athlete motivation: Relying on the athlete to execute the test with maximal intent on testing days.
Limitations of periodic testing
Most coaches test at the start and end of a new mesocycle, typically every 4-12 weeks. However, this method has significant limitations. Firstly, it only provides a snapshot of an athlete's condition at any one time, which can lead to false-positives and false-negatives.
To a certain extent, pre & post-testing assumes that progression happens predictably and linearly. Performance fluctuations can easily hide real improvements from training, making it hard to track trends. This hinders adjustments to performance from microcycle to microcycle, rather than from phase to phase.
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Regain up to 10% of training time
Periodic testing often leads to the trap of waiting for the "perfect" time, resulting in delayed or missed retests due to perceived fatigue. Even when the athlete appears fresh, valuable training time is sacrificed for testing. If an athlete trains twice a week and one session is used for testing every six weeks, roughly 10% of their annual training time is lost.
Collect more valuable data
Frequent data collection eliminates the risk of false positives or negatives, allowing you to make more informed and better decisions.
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Improve athlete buy-in
Keep athletes informed about their progress with our easy-to-understand charts and reports, fostering better buy-in and motivation.
Applying the concept: Practical use case
Group Size: 12 Athletes
Ages: 16-18
Sessions Per Week: 3 (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
Session Duration: 60 Minutes
Season: Off-Season (Summer)
Sports: Baseball, Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer
Tests: CMJ, 10-5 Hop Test, 1RM Trap Bar Deadlift (Load-Velocity Profile)
For example, during plyometric blocks, athletes can wear the Output device to track their performance in real-time on exercises like CMJs and Intensive Pogos. This provides consistent insights into current performance and trends based on recent results.
Output can also track bar speeds during lifts, like trap bar deadlifts, providing real-time load velocity profiling and updated 1RMs from session to session. Viewing training as testing eliminates noise in performance data, especially with multiple athletes experiencing different stressors.
This allows coaches to objectively track individual performance trends, helping them adjust training to meet athletes' needs in real time, rather than waiting for post-testing results.
What our customers have to say
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Additionally, we’re now able to quantify tasks we couldn’t before such as multi-directional hopping or effort during swings, throws and punches."
Ben Rosenblatt
Former Lead Performance Coach of England FA. Founder of 292 Performance.
Spencer Tatum
Performance Coach to Jon Rahm, Masters Champion
Eric Yavarone
CEO, Five Tool Connection
Stephen Englehart
M.S, CSCS, Director of Strength and Conditioning, University of Colorado
Nic Gill
Head S&C Coach, All Blacks
Jonas Dodoo
Head Speed Coach of Speedworks Training
Chris Tombs
VBT & Performance Specialist
Niamh Buffini
CEO and Co-Founder, Buff Performance
Change the way you test today.
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