NEW FEATURE ALERT: KINETIC EVENTS
STRIVE users can now capture and highlight kinetic movements during their training session with the new Kinetic Events feature within the STRIVE app.
At STRIVE, one of our key goals is to ensure that athletes, clients, and trainers not only gain access to muscle and movement data, but that they can understand and digest what the data is telling them to easily apply that knowledge to optimizing performance. The newly released feature provides additional insights into counter movement jumps (CMJ), such as jumping, accelerations, and decelerations.
WHAT DOES THE KINETIC EVENTS FEATURE DO?
The Kinetic Events feature is able to measure specific countermovement jumps in a more granular, detailed level. This feature makes measuring jump height, as well as peak accelerations and the time it takes to reach those accelerations possible within the STRIVE app.
For jump height, STRIVE measures in centimeters, which is similar (or easily convertible) to the metric system currently found in force plates. Being able to capture these types of measurements within STRIVE means less external tools and equipment for your sessions. A convenience that paired with STRIVE’s muscle data is highly important to understand how the individual is achieving their jump heights by being able to look into the muscle symmetries and distributions.
Using this feature to capture jump height is a great tool for teams or individuals that want to monitor their performance progress on a consistent schedule, whether that be weekly, bi-monthly, monthly, etc. Jump height often has a direct correlation to one’s power and explosiveness. For additional quick reasons on why measuring jump height is important, visit here.
In addition to jump height, the Kinetic Events feature will measure forward acceleration or deceleration movement. STRIVE measures at the peak acceleration and deceleration at meters/second ^ 2. We find this extremely useful in instances where sprinting is involved or really any type of HIIT activity (HIIT: High-Intensity Interval Training).
Being able to measure the peak accelerations is one of the ways to understand performance progress (or lack thereof) to keep you informed of training progression. Deceleration magnitudes (or the deceleration value to achieve to stop/slow down) can indicate how well someone can decelerate, which stresses the soft tissue musculature very differently than accelerations (high magnitude decelerations are very damaging). In addition to the peak measurements in regards to accelerations, STRIVE is able to provide the time it took your athlete or client to achieve that peak measurement, which is a key feature especially in the high-performance environment.
The acceleration and deceleration insights can be used to conduct weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly ‘assessments’ where people would be able to view their progress and learn how to adjust their plans to achieve better outcomes.
Are you already a STRIVE user? If you are, make sure you jump into your STRIVE app to test out our next Kinetic Events feature if you haven’t already!
If you are not a user, but interested to see if you qualify to start training with STRIVE today, reach out to our team or apply for our STRIVE Showcase by visiting the link below.
