0:01

Okay , what's up , guys ? So wanted

0:03

to break this down . Obviously , there's

0:05

a long way to go with starting to capturing

0:08

this data and tracking

0:10

what the athletes are doing on the field , but highly

0:13

interested in getting some of this insights , not only to

0:15

improve our training at hand athletics , but

0:17

to improve the ability to

0:19

reference to this stuff for coaches sport

0:22

coaches when they are curious about . You

0:24

know what demands are on the athletes , what type

0:26

of conditioning should be appropriate

0:28

for them in sport or for their sport , or

0:30

even down to what's important for their position

0:33

. So there's

0:36

a lot of different things to look into this . Again

0:38

, we're starting to dive into this

0:41

new to the space in terms of actually tracking

0:43

this and going through it . So

0:45

take it for what it's worth , but I'm going to go through

0:48

real quickly . Just two athletes we tracked

0:50

on the same team during

0:52

a football game last Friday , so

0:54

they wore the GPS trackers underneath

0:56

their pads and was able to grab

0:59

some cool data on different positions

1:01

. We're going to work through all the different position

1:03

pools for football

1:06

and also want

1:08

to dive into some soccer as well , and

1:10

then from there , the sky's the limit , right

1:12

. So , number one

1:15

I want to show you , guys , all

1:17

the different types of data we're incorporating

1:19

and what we're looking at

1:21

and compare the two athletes

1:24

. So you'll see

1:26

here athlete one , which will go back and

1:28

forth between these , but athlete one is

1:31

a linebacker . So a

1:33

linebacker kind of the head linebacker on

1:35

the team plays an outside

1:38

linebacker position . The second

1:40

is going to be

1:42

a receiver , slash

1:45

corner DB , primarily

1:48

DB , and also fills in , plays

1:50

both sides of the ball , but a

1:53

very interesting prospect

1:55

for college football . He's

1:57

going , has multiple offers already , but he plays

2:00

defensive back mainly in those

2:02

opportunities in the future . So

2:04

first off , let's kick back to the linebacker . Let's

2:07

look at total volume during the full game . So

2:10

you'll see here the athlete covered 2.77

2:12

miles . And then we

2:14

got a bunch of different metrics here . So high

2:16

speed running , hsr 369

2:19

yards this is going to be running

2:22

. That is over , I believe

2:24

, 13.1 miles per hour . So

2:27

there's different things . You can set these different

2:29

, but these are what's recommended for rugby or football

2:31

, over

2:33

13.1 miles per hour . You have the high

2:35

speed running 369 yards . High

2:38

intensity distance , that's 729

2:40

yards , and what's included

2:42

in this is acceleration and deceleration

2:44

. So the athlete quickly changing speeds , either

2:48

accelerating or decelerating , so he almost

2:50

doubles out when it comes down to the yards coverage

2:52

while doing those two different

2:54

types of movements . Total sprint

2:56

distance this

2:58

is going to be how

3:01

far the athlete is sprinting , again

3:03

over a certain miles per hour . I believe

3:05

that this is around

3:09

10 , 10 miles per hour . I

3:11

think looking at that is 10 to 10.5

3:14

miles per hour . You got 332

3:16

total yards and

3:19

so you'll see there's a little bit difference there between

3:21

the sprint distance and the

3:23

HSR . In

3:26

terms of why that is

3:28

relates to the fact

3:30

that for sprinting distance

3:32

to count you have to be sprinting for over a

3:34

second . So the difference between

3:36

, you see , between the high speed running , sprint distance

3:38

is those high speed running

3:40

yards can occur in a second

3:43

or less when it comes to accelerating , decelerating

3:45

or hitting a speed . So you

3:47

see a little bit of difference in those . What's

3:49

cool about this software as well is

3:52

you can see the numbers comparative half

3:54

to half . So how much occurs

3:57

during the first half ? First , second half ? You

3:59

see there's more running total in the first half

4:01

, a lot less high speed

4:03

yards , but so

4:06

you can just kind of compare and see what

4:09

the demands are from half to

4:11

half . So with

4:13

that in mind , that is our linebacker

4:16

when it comes to volume . Let's

4:18

pan over to our

4:21

DB , slash wide receiver and

4:23

you'll see 3.67 miles . So quite

4:25

a bit more distance . Total distance

4:27

covered high speed running

4:30

433, . High intensity

4:32

distance 866 yards

4:35

. Sprint distance 770

4:37

. So see here , obviously , these positions

4:39

, that's kind of something we'd already know , right

4:41

Is ? There's a big difference in how much

4:43

yardage has to be covered for

4:47

the athletes over the duration of the game

4:49

, which can be taken into consideration

4:51

when you're training different position groups , who

4:55

obviously needs more conditioning although

4:57

we'll dive into some things

4:59

that I find at the end , but I think I

5:03

can share a little bit of a way that I think that this

5:05

can be obtained and it naturally is obtained

5:07

through practice and through sport . So

5:09

pan back to the linebacker . We've

5:12

got top speed . So

5:14

you'll see here , in game , outside

5:16

linebacker hit 19.34 miles

5:18

per hour . That's pretty fast for a linebacker

5:21

to hit in game . We

5:23

have done a good job of getting our athletes fast . This

5:26

individual , he's ran over

5:28

20 miles per hour in

5:31

training . So giving

5:33

the athlete the capability to hit those high speeds , have that

5:35

speed reserve , able to hit 19.34

5:38

miles per hour in pads pretty comfortably

5:41

while playing the game , which is

5:43

well outside the range that sport is normally played

5:45

at . So what you'll see is he's a playmaker

5:47

that's able to get across the field

5:49

and make plays that most linebackers

5:51

would not be able to make because

5:53

they don't have the ability to hit those speeds in pads

5:55

. So number of sprints 14

5:58

total sprints when

6:00

it came to running full

6:02

speed over a second 64

6:05

accelerations , 45

6:07

decelerations . So

6:10

it gives us an idea of how much he's accelerating

6:12

, decelerating , fairly balanced here as

6:14

a linebacker and again

6:17

just kind of proves the importance of working on deceleration

6:19

in training . You can't just work on the accelerations

6:21

as obviously there's a very significant

6:24

demand on the decelerations as well . Pan

6:28

over to wide receiver , slash

6:31

corner 39

6:34

sprints , okay . So again he's

6:37

doing almost more than

6:39

double sprints

6:41

than the linebacker throughout

6:43

the session . But what's

6:45

interesting is the acceleration and decelerations

6:47

aren't too far off . You see , here

6:50

accelerations are very similar but

6:53

the corner wide receiver had to decelerate

6:55

aggressively more often , which again

6:57

makes sense , going into cuts , routes covering

7:00

someone . So just

7:02

again pounds the importance of working on deceleration

7:05

with your athletes , sport coaches

7:07

on the field doing sprint work

7:09

and requiring quick stops

7:11

Again is going to be important

7:13

. Also to know a lot of injuries happen

7:15

in decelerations . So obviously

7:18

there's a lot of opportunities to decelerate . If you are not

7:20

working on that In practice , you're

7:22

leaving your athlete open to

7:24

more injuries . You

7:28

know this can be implemented in strength and conditioning as well

7:30

, when it comes to what

7:33

kind of speed work you do in the gym and whatnot

7:35

. But it's important to make sure that that bucket is being

7:37

filled somewhere along

7:40

the line . Okay

7:42

, and this is crazy

7:44

right here , this 22.65 . I

7:47

know exactly what play this was on . I was at the game

7:49

. It was a chase down from one side of the field to the opposite

7:51

of the field , cap

7:54

running down and catching another

7:56

athlete I train that also Runs

7:58

in that 22 mile per hour range . So this

8:01

is insane . To hitting pads this is by

8:04

far for sure NFL speed

8:06

when it comes to the

8:09

ability to accelerate and run in pads and make plays

8:11

that otherwise would not be made

8:13

. It can be a game changer

8:15

and this is one of the reasons these

8:17

highly sought after is . That

8:19

is nutty . That is a crazy speed . I

8:21

hope I want to get that across you . At 22.65

8:24

in pads is nutty . Okay

8:26

now , now

8:29

we kind of hit that on the head , right , so we'll move

8:32

on to intensity . It's

8:34

more interesting data in this , especially

8:36

when it comes to training . So distance

8:38

per minute 40 yards . So

8:41

in an entire minute on average

8:43

the athlete's covering 40 yards

8:45

in that minute span . But this

8:47

is where it gets really interesting to and why a

8:49

lot of conditioning by sport coaches in my mind

8:51

isn't isn't quite done correctly . High

8:55

speed running per minute three yards . So

8:57

he averages three yards per minute of

9:00

high speed running . That's a lot lower than you would

9:02

initially think . High

9:04

intensity distance again , this

9:07

is going to include deceleration

9:09

, acceleration yards seven

9:12

yards . All right , seven

9:14

yards a minute . So

9:17

Just take your brain to the idea

9:19

that you're running gassers or

9:21

slow volume conditioning . That

9:24

is not the demands at all on the field

9:26

, even for a corner or for a

9:28

wide receiver , okay

9:30

, and we'll get into that in a second

9:33

. But as he has a linebacker , that's what he's

9:35

kind of required to cover and might make

9:37

you rethink some of the conditioning You're doing with

9:39

the athletes . And then the sprint

9:41

distance per minute three yards , throughout

9:45

the game . So 43

9:47

, 73 , jump over , boom

9:49

. So here is your

9:51

corner , slash wider , see

9:53

ver . You'll see 57

9:56

yards compared to 40 yards and

9:58

you'll see Four

10:00

yards of high speed running . High

10:03

intensity distance is eight yards . Sprint distance to

10:05

seven . So again four , eight and seven

10:07

, verse three , seven and three . Obviously

10:09

a difference changes demands , but

10:11

it is not

10:14

as much as you would assume , right ? So that's

10:16

on average . That's how much yardage they're

10:18

covering at certain speeds throughout

10:20

the game , which just

10:22

stresses the importance of being able to accelerate , decelerate

10:25

and Run really fast

10:27

, because you're not going to have a ton of time or opportunities

10:29

To do so

10:31

. So if you can capitalize on the those short

10:33

yard burst , that's

10:35

where you're gonna have the biggest payoff when it comes to performance

10:38

on the field . So , moving

10:40

over to stress , this one's interesting . I

10:42

didn't have heart rate on them , so we don't have heart rate , but let's talk

10:44

about stress . So first off we're gonna

10:46

look at step balance between feet 51

10:49

, 49 , fairly normal , especially

10:52

coming like a linebacker coming out of certain positions

10:54

anything over two

10:56

to three Balance . So

10:58

if there's a two to three differential , then you might

11:00

want to start looking into . Is there

11:02

some pain going on with the athlete ? Have they

11:04

had a previous injury that can be an indicator

11:07

of Pass injury

11:09

and potential injury in the future . So

11:11

our linebacker right here fell right

11:13

into kind of a healthy balance . Ideally it's 50

11:15

50 now , but not bad . Now

11:18

we look at DSL

11:21

. So real quick , I want to show you guys what DSL

11:23

is and this is a stress

11:25

score . So

11:28

boom , dynamic

11:31

stress load . Sorry , I'm totally

11:33

pulling around . So strain , the

11:36

strain metric first amount external stress

11:38

placed on the body during a during a given

11:40

training or game . Strain can be placed

11:42

on your body through step impacts during running and

11:44

other game or training related activities . As

11:47

you tire , your step impacts

11:49

can become larger , placing extra

11:51

stress on your body , resulting in a higher strain value . Running

11:54

style , weight and the session

11:56

type can all affect this score . Obviously , the

11:58

session type was a game . It's

12:00

a personalized metric . So

12:02

as you track this over time you can kind of see if

12:05

the athlete is inducing

12:07

more strain on their body due to fatigue , which

12:09

could be important in tracking for athletes

12:12

throughout a season . You know if you were going to invest in

12:14

these units as a team and

12:16

be able to see what's happened to the athletes and the strain

12:18

on the body . But what's interesting is

12:20

we just talked about how this linebacker covered

12:23

less yards total distance , less total

12:25

sprinting right , not as high

12:27

of a total speed , but

12:29

he has a dynamic strain load of 169

12:32

. So that's his score . Obviously

12:35

that number doesn't mean a lot to you , doesn't

12:37

mean a lot to us yet either , until we kind of see

12:40

more data come

12:42

in on different games . Okay

12:44

, but this is really interesting

12:46

. So let's look at the DB . So

12:50

stress again about the same balance

12:52

again makes sense when you're coming off one foot in your starts

12:54

or whatnot . But the dynamic

12:57

strain load , even with more

12:59

volume , more sprints and

13:01

whatnot more distance covered was actually 131

13:03

. So it's lower of

13:05

a cost on this athlete than the linebacker

13:08

. And again

13:11

you got to look at athletes , body weight , right

13:14

, and there's

13:16

a lot of metrics that come into this . But obviously

13:18

a linebacker , being heavier , is going to have a

13:21

naturally a little bit more strain on

13:23

the body . And then , as we get some

13:25

data on linemen , it might be kind

13:27

of surprising on how

13:29

much strain it puts on them as well as they

13:31

play being a very heavy athlete . Okay

13:34

. So dynamic strain load lower

13:37

, even though intensity , speed and volume

13:39

were higher . Now

13:41

, to sum this all up , what do I take away of from

13:44

this ? As a coach Number

13:46

one , I don't think a lot enough . I don't

13:48

think enough . Football teams are doing

13:51

true sprint training , so sprint

13:53

really fast , short distances , rest , long

13:56

periods Right , if they only need to

13:58

cover seven , eight yards in

14:00

a minute . Right

14:02

, you're gonna need to be doing sprints

14:06

and if they're running 20 , 30 yards for their sprint , they

14:08

should have a very long rest period two

14:11

to three to four minutes between sprints . Working

14:14

on getting your athletes faster Again

14:16

, if they can hit high speeds in the game , they're

14:20

gonna have what's called I call speed reserves . So

14:23

when , for example , kai runs

14:25

22.65 miles per

14:27

hour super fast , it's very

14:29

low intensity for him to run anywhere

14:32

between 14 to 17

14:34

miles per hour , right . So he's

14:36

gonna seem to be in better shape because those

14:38

efforts are lower . So , even though

14:40

he's playing at the game speed , the

14:44

game feels slow to him , which is great for performance

14:46

, obviously , and it's less of a toll

14:48

on his body . So that higher

14:50

speeds allow him more room to have less

14:52

strain on the body playing

14:55

the game at the speed it's played . So

14:58

that's one takeaway . I think we need more sprint

15:00

training , short distances

15:02

, long recoveries . I

15:05

think we need to spend more time

15:07

on acceleration and decelerations based

15:09

on the volume of these in

15:11

training , and I think we need to do sled

15:14

loads and sled sprints

15:16

and chain sprints in the strength

15:18

and conditioning for these guys or

15:20

on the field , as that is going

15:22

to really impact their

15:24

ability to accelerate and

15:27

you'll see they do a ton of reps of

15:29

that in the game . Number two

15:31

is I think a lot of coaches are wasting time

15:33

on slow

15:36

moving general volume

15:38

that's being accomplished in a game

15:40

. Now this doesn't even take into account how

15:42

much volume you're there putting on these athletes in

15:44

practice . So you got to take practice

15:47

into account , which we could get some data on that . In

15:50

my mind you don't want to be adding any extra distance

15:52

to those practices than is necessary . So

15:55

I think sport coaches

15:57

would find the most benefit from

16:00

conditioning being a

16:02

format of drills actually playing the sport

16:04

, so you can see how much volume they get in the sport in a game

16:07

. Obviously , practice is going to be lower . Ideally

16:09

practice is lower and

16:12

that time at practice is spent more on the technical aspect

16:15

and then playing situational , playing

16:17

a two

16:19

minute drill stuff like that , where athletes

16:22

are getting reps in that

16:24

are relative to the sport they're playing relative to football

16:27

and

16:29

you don't waste any extra time or beat up

16:31

the athletes extra on conditioning . I

16:33

don't think it's necessary . I think you just

16:36

simulate the game in practice . You

16:38

cut out all the conditioning and you

16:40

add , in short

16:43

, low volume , high intensity

16:45

sprints and work those

16:47

in throughout the week , based on when

16:49

game day is , and

16:51

get practice and volume there , as that's

16:54

what they're going to be required to do , and

16:56

again at very short distances , with long rest

16:58

periods , and that's going to carry over more

17:00

to what the demands are of the sport and

17:02

what's going on on the field

17:04

. As we begin to look into this data . Obviously I'm going

17:06

to get more and more and more of this , which

17:09

will give us more clear insight , but I wanted to give you guys

17:11

a look into what we found just

17:13

from two games between positions the similarities

17:15

, the differences and

17:18

how we can do better as

17:20

strength addition coaches and sport

17:23

coaches when it comes to planning and implementation

17:25

for our athletes . So thanks

17:27

for tuning in , guys . It's a long video , a

17:29

lot of information . Obviously

17:31

, we'll get better at this as we track more , but if you

17:33

guys have any questions , let me know . Definitely

17:36

looking to take what we do at hand

17:38

athletics to the next level , as well as provide our schools

17:40

in the area a

17:43

better opportunity and information

17:45

to help them make decisions

17:47

for the athletes , keep them healthy , keep

17:49

them performing at a high level and providing opportunities

17:52

for them on the field and also to

17:55

go get schooling for free and attend colleges and whatnot . So

17:58

thanks guys , have a good one .