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Technology & Data

As the world of technology advances, coaches and athletes are looking for ways to use these new innovations to increase their chances of success, whether that be winning trophies or setting world records.

As the world of sports technology is very complex, our aim is to simplify the science so that coaches, athletes, and everybody else can understand how to these tools in order to optimise sports performance.

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Velocity-Based Training

Owen Walker

Velocity-based training is simply a method of training which uses a piece of technology to track the movement speed of the exercise.

Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio

Ryan White

The acute:chronic workload ratio can assist practitioners in understanding the preparedness of an athlete and their relative injury risk.

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Reliability

Reliability

Dr. Jérôme Sauret

Reliability helps us understand the sources of error and how they affect findings in practice and in research.

DEXA Scan

DEXA Scans

Charlie Beestone

Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) scans can be a valuable assessment tool for measuring body composition (e.g. levels of body fat).

Statistical Significance

Becky Conway

Statistical significance is a scientific method that helps to determine whether reported research findings are actually true.

ACWR

Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio

Ryan White

The acute:chronic workload ratio can assist practitioners in understanding the preparedness of an athlete and their relative injury risk.

SWC

Smallest Worthwhile Change

Becky Conway

Fitness testing is a crucial part of athlete profiling, and meaningful results can be assessed by calculating the smallest worthwhile change.

FLEX

Velocity-Based Training

Owen Walker

Velocity-based training is simply a method of training which uses a piece of technology to track the movement speed of the exercise.

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