FITS METRICS is our proprietary method that captures key kinetic and kinematic qualities to assess your movement, your athleticism and identify your injury risk factors in accordance to your sport, aspirations, and your athletic profile.
At FITS we use cutting edge technology to help us collect data, that when combined with scientific research, our experience and shared collaboration with colleges around the world allows us to:
- Understand your athletic strengths and weaknessacross many athletic qualities (such as power, speed, agility, balance, “CORE” Strength, aerobic conditioning, etc.) compared to others:
- Your age
- Your competition level
- At the professional level – you want to see what you need to develop to compete
- To become a world champion
- How to build a program to best address your unique athletic profile based on the needs of your sport, aspirations, and your unique schedule
- Assess how you are responding to our programs
- What you need to do athletically to excel at your sport and get to the next level
Each athlete is treated as an individual, and appropriately progressed according to their metrics. All FITS athletes are continually monitored where METRICS are inputted into our proprietary software to help guide your program design – leaving nothing to chance. FITS METRICS allows us to see how you progressing to make the appropriate and timely decisions to enhance your performance considering factors such as:
- Competition schedule and Long Term Athletic Development
- Rest, Recovery and Nutrition
- Chronological age vs. Development / Physiological Development
- Mindset: growth vs. fixed mindset
- Sport Analysis
- Individual Athletic Needs Analysis
METRICS available at FITS
Biomechanical, Anthropometric and Orthopedic
- Video Motion Analysis using Dartfish (Basic movements and sport specific movements)
- Force Plate Analysis – Power, Force, Rate of Force Development
- Ground Contact, Gait, Sprinting, and Change in Direction ability Analysis
- Reactiveness and Stiffness Analysis
- Body Composition, Height and Weight, and key anthropometric indices
- Muscle Testing and orthopedic testing
Physiological
- Direct VO2 Max Testing
- Full Physiological Mapping (Aerobic, Anaerobic, Lactate Threshold)
- Critical Power
- Anaerobic Testing
Testing equipment available at FITS
- Optosource
- Ergoline electronically braked bike. Ergoselect 200
- Concept 2 Indoor Rower
- Monark 884E Sprint Bike x 2
- VMAX Spectra Metabolic Cart
- SMI Power Pack and Opto Sensor 2000 for cycle ergometer power tests
- Blood Lactate Analyzer
- Cybex Pro + Treadmill
- Health O Meter scale and heighometer
- Vertec Vertical Jump Tester
- Harpenden Body Fat Calipers
- Dart Fish Pro Video Motion Analysis Equipment
- Just Jump Mat
- Microgate Electronic Timing System
- Suunto Team Pod Heartrate Telemetry Unit with 10 Heart Rate Monitoring Belts
