The upper rail of a ForceFrame with its load cell pads and adjustment knobs, an athlete's knees against the pads

CH.01Instrumentation

Performance technology

Three systems, used in every assessment. Force production, strength profiling and speed analysis, on the same equipment elite sport uses.

Systems in the battery: 3
Sampling rate: 1000 Hz
Metrics captured: 18
Setup on site: Portable

System 01Force plates

ForceDecks

The gold standard for measuring lower-body power, explosiveness and movement efficiency. A pair of plates records the whole jump a thousand times a second, so the shape of the movement is visible, not just the result.

Countermovement jump (CMJ): Height, cm
Reactive strength index (RSI): Ratio
Explosive power: W/kg
Landing mechanics: Impact profile
Bilateral force asymmetry: % difference
Force production: Newtons

Two plates instead of one is the whole point. A single plate gives a total. Two give left and right.

A youth athlete airborne above dual force plates with hands on hips during a countermovement jump

Countermovement jump, flight phase ForceDecks

System 02Strength frame

ForceFrame

Provides objective insight into lower-limb strength profiles and highlights opportunities for targeted athletic development. Isometric testing removes technique and momentum from the result, so what is left is force.

Hip adduction strength: Newtons
Hip abduction strength: Newtons
Knee extension strength: Newtons
Knee flexion strength: Newtons
Isometric force: Peak, N
Lower limb strength balance: Ratio, L:R

Adduction and abduction are tested separately because the ratio between them matters more than either value alone.

A youth athlete lying supine with knees against the padded load cells of a ForceFrame during hip adduction testing

Hip adduction, supine ForceFrame

A youth athlete seated with the shin against the ForceFrame pad during isometric knee extension testing

Knee extension, seated Same frame, reconfigured

System 03Speed and agility

Timing Gates

Professional timing technology that quantifies football-specific speed, acceleration and agility with elite precision. Split times turn one sprint into several answers about where an athlete gains and loses.

10 m sprint: Seconds
20 m sprint: Seconds
Acceleration: Split, 0 to 10 m
Change of direction: 505 test, s
Reactive agility: Seconds
Decision speed: Reaction, ms

A stopwatch has a human in it. Gates do not, which is why a four hundredth of a second means something here.

A youth athlete accelerating past an electronic timing gate on a tripod

Twenty metre sprint with splits Timing Gates

Three systems. One athletic profile.

Every assessment combines force production, strength profiling and speed analysis to create a complete picture of athletic performance.

Run alone, each system answers a narrow question. Run together in one session, they explain each other: a slow ten metre split makes sense when the plates show low force and the frame shows a weak side.

›Force production, from the plates

›Strength profile, from the frame

›Speed and agility, from the gates

A performance testing setup laid out at the edge of a football pitch

Get on the plates

All three systems, one session, forty minutes. The report follows within 48 hours.

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