As programs across the nation begin their summers of training for the 2015 season, strength and conditioning is increasingly becoming a complex numbers game. The question is not only how much you lift, but also how efficiently you lift it, how you train muscles literally from head to toe, how you feel before and after and all the forward-looking ways to measure those nuances. Out of the Stone Age, into the Information Age.
To accomplish that, programs have gotten, well, programmed. Top college football programs use a system called EliteForm, which tracks the speed of bar movement and the watts produced during exercises and then displays the results not only for the lifter but also on interlinked tablet screens hanging on stations throughout the weight room.
EliteForm was established in 2012. By calculating bar speed and weight and translating that into watts produced, allows college strength coaches to get their most accurate measurement of the player’s force.
With GPS devices becoming more ubiquitous in college football, there is that same desire to know hard numbers—but aimed at ensuring a workload doesn’t squash a player completely.
Athletes across the nation are getting stronger, faster, and more powerful because of EliteForm's unique combination of advanced 3D camera technology and strength training software.
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