How can technology improve sporting performance?
Published June 18, 2023, 4:20 a.m. by Jerald Waisoki
Associate Professor Daniel James is the director of SABEL Labs, an intrapreneurial enterprise of Griffith University.
How can technology improve sporting performance?
What you measure tends to improve.
For the athlete of yesteryear, this meant hours of testing in an artificial laboratory environment.
Today, athletes can use wearable technologies to measure their performance on the playing field under the real pressure of competition.
Micro sensors measure the movement hundreds of times a second at one of more parts of the body, giving a complete picture of how an athlete moves.
During a football game, for example, we can collect detailed information about each individual player, including the distance they cover, how fast they run, and where they are on the field at any point of the game.
In fact, we can collect information on the thousands of actions they take during a game, which can be analysed to improve performance and reduce the risk of injury.
But it’s not just elite athletes that can benefit. As these devices get smaller, cheaper and more common, they can help us ‘regular’ people as well, whether we just want to stay healthy or we’re serious weekend
warriors.
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the athlete of yesteryear this meant
hours of testing in an artificial
laboratory environment
today athletes use wearable technologies
to measure their performance on the
playing field under the real pressure of
competition
micro sensors measure the movement
hundreds of times a second at one or
more parts of the body and we get a
complete picture of how an athlete moves
during a football game for example we
collect detailed information about each
player the distance they cover how fast
they run and where on the field they are
in fact we collect information on the
thousands of actions they take during a
game and we analyze this to improve
performance and reduce the risk of
injury
but it's not just elite athletes that
can benefit as these devices get smaller
cheaper and more common they help us
regular people as well whether we want
to stay healthy or with serious weekend
warriors
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