For the last four days, deep within Lucas Oil Stadium, Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston have had their heights, weights, arm lengths and hand sizes carefully inspected.
The details — differences measured in fractions of an inch or in nanoseconds — have been duly recorded in what is proving a duel to be the face of the N.F.L. draft class.
… it astounds me how many really successful people at their domain are utterly clueless, but very confident about it, in another domain.
How can I be so brash to declare that they are clueless? Well I technically can’t, but it’s because they are talking about my domain: endurance. And whether I have a clue or not is debatable, but it’s still my domain of “expertise” and I feel good about understanding it and applying it better than most people who don’t live in this domain. Perhaps because I’m entrenched in this world of endurance, it could be argued that I’m blind to innovation and rely on traditional dogma, as will be certainly argued by non-endurance believer, but I like to think my track record is at least somewhat established in challenging dogmas (shoes, stretching, etc.) in the endurance world.
What I’m talking about is when non-endurance folks talk about endurance.
… The first Impact Sports Performance opened in May 2011 in the same Boca Raton, Fla., development where the owners of the Bills and Sabres have their corporate headquarters.
The second opened on Halloween at HarborCenter in downtown Buffalo. Jerome, a Chicago native, and his wife, Keli, who grew up in Pittsburgh, moved to Western New York to run it.
Carolina Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman might look old-school in his minivan with fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview mirror, but he is sold on modern technology as it pertains to keeping players healthy and getting maximum performance.
Last season, the Panthers began using global positioning system technology for tracking a player’s heart rate, pace, speed, force of a collision and other data that might be attributed to better health.
… The Apple Watch might seem like a computer that resides on your wrist, but technically that isn’t the case. Apps that run on it are actually just extensions of iOS apps that run on an iPhone; they use the watch as an auxiliary display. This encourages developers to exploit the device as a kind of remote control for their existing iOS apps, and imagine the UX accordingly.
“You’re not allowed to run code on the watch at all,” says William Van Hecke, user experience lead at the Omni Group, a productivity software vendor that’s developing apps for the Apple Watch.
Of all the fitness tracking bands we saw at CES, Fitbit‘s Surge was the one we were most excited to try out. Fitbit is a pioneer in the wireless fitness band industry, so they’ve had the chance to witness the evolution of fitness trackers and release new products to remain a contender. They’ve also gone through some rough patches with product recalls and privacy concerns, so we were eager to see if these issues have made Fitbit a stronger company in the end. We were also hoping to finally find a device that could supplant our Pebble smartwatch that has been faithfully keeping time and delivering smartphone notifications for years.
After a month of use, we think it’s become quite clear if the Surge will be a viable alternative to the Pebble, or even the upcoming Apple Watch. So what’s the verdict?
An international research team has reported development of the first three-dimensional tissue system that reproduces the complex structure and physiology of human bone marrow and successfully generates functional human platelets. Using a biomaterial matrix of porous silk, the new system is capable of producing platelets for future clinical use and also provides a laboratory tissue system to advance study of blood platelet diseases.
In November, researchers at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) shared how their use of blood flow restriction (BFR), or “tourniquet,” training is helping wounded warriors return to health.
Now the technique is being implemented by one NFL team, and more could soon follow their lead.
The prospect of minimizing early muscular strength deficits while protecting healing tissue was the impetus for the Houston Texans to introduce the technique to several of their players — including 2014 top draft pick Jadeveon Clowney — rehabilitating post-operatively.
Lawrence Jackson remembers the moment, and everything that followed, down to its finest detail. As a Detroit Lions defensive end in 2010, Jackson was chasing Dallas Cowboys quarterback Jon Kitna. When Kitna sidestepped him, Jackson collided with teammate Kyle Vanden Bosch, spun in a helicopter motion and felt himself go limp for a few seconds.
“When I got to the sideline,” Jackson said, “I knew I was concussed. But I wasn’t disoriented. It wasn’t like I didn’t know where I was. I just had a headache and I could tell. But at that time, the test was pretty easy if you don’t have a significant concussion. It still is. They asked me what day it was, approximately what time it was, what quarter we were in. They wanted me to say the months backwards and a few other things. I got those right. I didn’t look disoriented, so they really didn’t have any choice but to let me go back in the game.”
The Gunners have been without 23 PLAYERS at stages since the start of the season as their crippling annual problems strike again – but are they set to do something about it?
Pete Bommarito created Bommarito Performance Systems in 2009. The South Florida-based training facility was already extremely profitable in its first year of business according to its founder. Profits related to training rookies for the NFL Scouting Combine, regional combines and players’ respective schools’ Pro Days have remained roughly consistent through six years of operation, while the business as a whole has benefited from an influx of veteran players utilizing the training facility’s resources. Bommarito owns one of many training facilities, including EXOS, IMG Academy and XPE Sports, that focuses on preparing football players. It is certainly a profitable industry for those at the top.