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How Georgia Tech is sing GPS Technology to Improve Performance
The Georgia Institute of Technology is using wearable GPS devices to monitor each member of its football team.
Credit: Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) football team is using wearable GPS devices to measure how fast each player runs, how often and how quickly he changes direction, his acceleration, deceleration, and a host of other actions.
The devices are part of the Catapult system that the university athletic department purchased for the team, which captures more than 1,000 data points per second from each athlete.
The team uses the data to monitor player workloads in real time and individualize practice plans to ensure players are not overloaded in practice.
In addition, players can check their own data and get a sense of their performance compared to their past efforts, or the efforts of other players.
The data allows coaches and players to more deeply understand what movements each position repeats most frequently, and can help design strength and conditioning programs accordingly.
From Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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