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Revolutionizing Golf Movement Analysis

For the first time in history, golfers can collect best-in-class movement data in the environments that matter most to them, thanks to Plantiga's IMU insole sensor. Plantiga analyzes every athlete’s unique movement signature by combining artificial intelligence with human expertise.

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Time-to-Peak Acceleration vs. Time-to-Peak Velocity: What Performance Coaches Need to Know

Time-to-peak acceleration and time-to-peak velocity provide insight into the different capacities of different athletes. By analyzing these metrics together, coaches can tailor training programs to enhance an athlete's strengths and address areas for improvement, ultimately maximizing their overall sprinting performance.

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Plantiga Unveils Arc5

A breakthrough in wearable technology for health practitioners and elite sports teams

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Plantiga for Sport and Return to Play

After spending 3+ years working with the world’s top organizations (and their athletes) across the NBA, NFL, MLB, MLS, the US and Canadian militaries, tennis, endurance, golf, and other sports associations, we are now launching our Plantiga platform for Sports Performance and Injury.

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Jump Training and Monitoring for Triathletes

Concurrent training programs consist of both endurance and resistance training to maximize all aspects of performance. For endurance athletes, research strongly supports the benefits of adding strength and power training to programs.

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Sherlock Holmes, Heuristics, and the RTS Roadmap: Part III

When was the last time you ventured out on a trip using a good old fashioned roadmap and a pencil to mark out your route? I can remember my parents working at the dining room table before a long road trip to trace out the route they would take. A bunch of working rules or heuristics guided their decision making. For example, if you were traveling with little kids, you would probably need to plan for a break every few hours and, ideally, those locations would have toilets and space for a good run.

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The Reactive Strength Index (RSI)

Reactive strength is a key strength and power ability driving athletic performance. Strength and power abilities include maximal muscle strength (how much force an athlete can generate irrespective of time) and rate of force development (RFD-how fast an athlete generates force). However, reactive strength is unique in that it involves the ability to couple movements that lengthen musculotendinous tissue (eccentric movement) followed those in which musculotendinous tissue shortens (concentric movement). These movements are called stretch-shorten-cycles (SSCs) and they occur readily in all kinds of human activities like running, jumping and change of direction movements. Movements that involve SSCs are often referred to as plyometrics and reactive strength and plyometric ability are sometimes used interchangeably.

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Movement Baselines: Understanding Your Starting Point

A movement baseline is a series of activity-specific assessments that, when analyzed together, provide a snapshot of your movement patterns. It acts as an objective marker that allows you to set personalized goals and targets, measure meaningful change, and track and evaluate progress. Baselines are the foundation for performance, monitoring, and recovery plans.

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Plantiga from a Practitioner’s Perspective

As a physiotherapist working out of the Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic in Edmonton, AB I work with a large population of people (we’ll call them athletes here as most play sports anywhere from a national to recreational level) with knee injuries and have been lucky enough to spend a majority of my time on knee assessments and knee rehab.

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Why Do We Run?

In 2017, a reported 60 million Americans actively participated in regular, run-focused activities. With the exception of a few social and migratory animals, this seems to be a uniquely human pastime. Why is that? The answer to this question may reside in our evolutionary history. 

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