🎙️Welcome to another episode of The Xtra Edge podcast! In this episode, we're joined by Eric Donoval, the Director of Sports Performance for Football at the University of Wyoming. Eric shares his insights on the evolution of data reliability and accuracy in sports performance, and how it has significantly improved over the years.
🏈 Mile-High Metrics
Eric discusses the advantages of using Local Positioning Systems (LPS) in their training, especially given the unique challenges of their location - 7200 feet up in the mountains where weather conditions often drive training indoors. He highlights how the LPS system provides the accuracy of a GPS system indoors, making it a crucial component of their winter training.
📊 Saddling Up Seamlessly
We delve into the specifics of their practice sessions, which often involve split practices with offense in the stadium and defense indoors. Eric explains how they seamlessly integrate data from these sessions, and how this ability to transition between indoor and outdoor training without missing a beat on data collection has been critical for their team.
📈 The Wyoming Way: Quantifying Cowboy Success
Eric also gives us a detailed look into the metrics they use for analysis, including workload, distance, high-speed yardage, excels, decels, top speed, mechanical load, and practice density. He emphasizes that these metrics provide a comprehensive view of the demands on the athlete, playing a crucial role in their analysis of team, position, or individual workloads.
🏃♂️ Ride for the Brand
Finally, Eric talks about the importance of monitoring top speed throughout the year. He shares how they progressively expose athletes to higher velocities, foster competition within the team with top speed leaderboards, and ensure athletes maintain their speed qualities by exposing them to intense sprinting once a week.
Join us for this insightful conversation and gain an Xtra Edge in your understanding of sports performance! 🎧
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